As others have noted, something is wrong with the arithmetic. I just took a picture with my Olympus C2500L at SHQ JPEG. The image was 1712x1368x24bits=7,026,048 Bytes. It was compressed in the camera to a 1,943,311 Byte file. As soon as it had finished storing in a Simple 96MB CF I took another picture. The interval was 11 seconds. Thus the image processing plus storage rate was 176,665 bytes per second.
The camera has a buffer, which allows several pictures to be taken at shorter intervals - in this camera at this resolution the intervals are about 5 seconds. The 11 second figure used above is allowing the buffer to empty completely after a single exposure.
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The camera has a buffer, which allows several pictures to be taken at shorter intervals - in this camera at this resolution the intervals are about 5 seconds. The 11 second figure used above is allowing the buffer to empty completely after a single exposure.