There is little point to cards much beyond the speed of the camera to
write data to them, although faster cards do allow faster downloads
to computer through a card reader. I have cards of various brands and
speeds, most are 45x and 60x but I have a couple of slower ones. It's
easy to see the difference between 32x and 45x cards, not so easy to
see much benefit from the 60x cards. But since 60x cards are only a
couple dollars more than than 45x cards now, they're worth buying for
the download speed improvement.
Sandisk Ultra IIs work well, as so the Transcend and PQI cards. I
don't have any Lexars, but the ATP cards seem to be about the best
made of all of them.
The DS buffers writes so you rarely run into the limitations on the
camera due to card speed unless you're shooting continuous
sequences ... faster cards will allow you to squeeze a couple more
frames in a fast sequence than slow cards. If that's not your style
of shooting, than even slow cards do just fine.
Godfrey
On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Which brand and speed cards do you recommend for the istDs? I was
thinking
of the San Disk Ultra II, or a comparable Lexar, but I've no "brand
loyalty" at this point.
Can the Ds use the speed of this, and similar cards? Having cards
that
will DL a bit faster to the computer is nice, so it might be OK to
have a
card that's faster than the ability of the Ds ... anyway, your
comments
would be appreciated. Thank you.
Shel
