On 8 Mar 2004 at 21:37, mapson wrote: > Are there significant differences between cards?
Depends on what you deem as significant? > What is recommended? Any > brands to stay away from? With shouting them down I've not positive reliability reports about the 2.2GB compact hard disks from Magicstor. > Do 'faster' cards load faster, or are we still limited by what the camera > can do? See my post sent to the list 26th Jan 2004 (apologies to those who may have seen the following three times now): I just tested my CF cards for RAW write performance using the criterion set at the Rob Galbraith page (http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6432) and found that my new Ridata 2GB 52x Pro cards deliver 1758kB/s which puts them just slightly behind the Sandisk Ultra II and Extreme in his table. My old 512MB CF cards were spec'd at 20x and came in at 1566kB/s. I'd be interested to see what difference if any the new Write Acceleration technology might make. What it boils down to is that if you need to engage in continuous shooting in RAW past the 5 image buffer you'll be looking at about 7seconds at the very least between subsequent images even using the fastest CF cards. If you need to keep the buffer empty you need to shoot JPEG. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
