On Sep 24, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote: > Many told me to quit griping about Pentax ditching CF cards because SD > cards were now so cheap that they were disposable. Well, I have > ordered > a K10D and a 130X Lexar 2GB card to go with it. The card is over $100. > To get the 10 GB I'd like eventually to have for extended travel will > cost me $500 at that rate. (I have 9 GB in CF cards, and fill them up > pretty quickly when I travel. I also have a 40 GB Flashtrax, but > consider it a backup rather than a susbtitute for cards. And I'll have > to get a CF to SD adapter for it.) > > The Transcend certainly looks attractive on price, but are they of the > quality of Lexar and Sandisk? I won't buy a card that may prove > short-lived and lose valuable images.
I've been using Sandisk Ultra II (60x rated) and Transcend 150x SD cards interchangeably in the DS for several months. The Transcend are marginally faster in the DS body. I expect the K10D body to more fully exploit the faster cards. In three-four years of using Transcend, PQI, Sandisk, and ATP SD cards, something on the order of 100,000 exposures, I have not yet had a single card failure. The Transcend 150x 2G cards are $37 apiece right now. Personally, I think you paid too much for the Lexar brand name. I use the Epson P2000 for my travel backup. It has dedicated CF and SD slots, and handles the 2G SD cards without any issues. > The 4GB CF Lexar card that I have D causes the D to boot so slowly > that > I a hesitate to go beyond 2GB in future cards. Or maybe the K10D will > boot quickly enough that it won't be a problem. The DS is ready to shoot in less than a second with the Transcend 150x 2G card installed. I can't imagine how the K10D would be slower than that. Godfreuy -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
