Originally posted by wolfiegirl 40mb images. Sheesh!
I'd make Western Digital and/or Seagate rich if I did this day-in/day-out. However, this year it's just two short excursions into K-1 trigger-happiness and then mostly back to carefully shot (and reshot, and reshot) JPEGs, with the ones that turn out horribly scrubbed at once. Looked at another way, though, they are little over twice as big as the largest, richest JPEGs (some of which have nudged 20MB), which isn't too bad. On my *istDS (6.1MP CCD sensor), the largest JPEGs come in at a little over 2MB but the Raw files (.PEF, because the camera doesn't do .DNGs) are usually around ten. A fivefold difference.
I've taken precisely two pixel-shift shots with the K-1. Those were about 140MB each. You want to be sparing with those unless you have a desktop tower with several fairly large hard drives, and LOTS of external storage.