The Bruce's original message I was replying to stated raw to storage medium writing times being 1-2 secs for D70 and 7-9 secs for *istD. That's 3.5 to 9 times slower than D70. D70 is hardly an action/sports model. My entire reply was made in this context.
Both your "2-3" times and my "almost an order of magnitude" have similar margin of error and are equally misleading, only to the opposite sides <g> Cheers, Leon >-----Original Message----- >From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 4:15 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Buffer speed (Re: Why choose *ist DL over Nikon >or Canon competitors?) > >the fastest of the "ordinary" DSLRs, excluding the >action/sports models, are about 2-3 times faster than the >*istD with perhaps equal or slightly larger buffer size. the >action sports models are 5-6 times faster and have 4 or 5 >times the buffer size. > >Herb.... >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Leon Mlakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:31 PM >Subject: RE: Buffer speed (Re: Why choose *ist DL over Nikon or Canon >competitors?) > > >> That's a long time, indeed. Something you do not think about >with film >> camera. But, if the figures for Nikon D70 are correct, it >sounds to me >> that larger buffer provides only a partial, temporary workaround. A >> redesign of electronics to speed up the writing by almost an >order of >> magnitude would be more desirable solution. > > >
