Nikon D70 Image Quality

[Paul in OKC]

I have my D70 image quality set on FINE, and image size set on L (LARGE). When I shoot pictures, however, the file sizes that result are 1.41 MB, 1.37 MB, 1.48 MB, etc. Shouldn't these file sizes be running around 2.90 MB (as shown in the table on page 45 of the manual)? What is wrong? Why am I getting JPEG normal image quality file sizes for large images (1.5MB) when I should be getting JPEG fine image quality file sizes for large images (2.9MB). It seems to me that my file sizes are about half of what they should be given the setting I have on my camera. Is there another factor I have not considered - another setting that is throwing this off? Any thoughts on this?

[jorgemonkey]

I'll have to bring mine back out and shoot some jpegs with my D70 and see what it does. I did look at my older images, and all my jpegs had come out to 2-4 megs each.

You might want to try a reset of everything on the camera. It might fix it, it might do nothing at all.

[Paul in OKC]

OK, so now I'm embarrassed. I was working with images shot over a year ago, which resulted in the lower file sizes. I just shot some pictures here in my office, and the file sizes are what they should be. My expert??? opinion is that I had the camera setting wrong a year ago, and now I have it set correctly. I should have checked this before taking other peoples' time with my question. SORRY!

[jorgemonkey]

Its all good, I don't think its as bad shooting a half days worth of photos (luckily just for fun) and then realizing you're shooting at ISO 800 instead of 200