On 18 Jun 2005 at 10:44, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > As I understand it, the speed of the flash card is of little consequence in > the > camera, but maybe my memory is faulty on that point. I believe Rob Studdert > made some comparisons on that point.
I did indeed back on 26 Jan 2004: " 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." 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
