Digital Commons at Penn State

This varies with each camera according to its memory capacity. It is also a factor of the resolution that the camera was set to when each photo was taken. Higher resolution photos will take up more space on the camera's memory. The Sony CD Mavica, for example, can use a CD-RW disc which can store up to 1,000 images and be used over and over. Other cameras use various memory formats to store up to several thousand images.