On Apr 19, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
You can get a sense of relative speeds by setting the camera to Manual
exposure, choosing 1/1000 second or so, and timing several runs from
the start of a burst of five exposures to when the busy light goes
out. Without further instrumenting the camera, that's good enough for
me.
OK, I did this.
Pentax DS2, manual exposure 1/1000 f2.8, lens cap on.
JPEG mode --
cheapest 1GB SD card available from Kingston in December (it's for my
Palm): 8 seconds
133x 1GB Kingston SD card: slightly over four seconds
RAW mode --
cheap 1GB card: 29 seconds
133x 1GB card: 15 seconds
Anyone else want to play? I'm curious as to how slow the cheap card is.
-Aaron
