What's the slowest SD card speed you can buy? ...that they made? 40x?? Think that is what I just tested. Regards, Bob S.
On 12/8/06, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick, > > No, I said that's what I got when I tried it with a 150x card I > purchased at Fry's for under $35 after rebate. > > Here's the latest just for you... I dug out the oldest SD card I could > find, 1+ years old, cheap, & a 1 meg card borrowed from the Optio SV. > > Ran off 10 shots in a row, DNG's of 16,490 to 16,516 KB before the > buffer filled. > Ran off 8 shots in a row, PEF's of 8,210 to 8,281 KB before the buffer filled. > Ran off 6 shots in a row, PEF's + JPG's before the buffer filled. > PEF's were 8,094 to 8,236 KB. JPG's were 1,352 to 1,413 KB. > Ran off 8 shots in a row, DNG's + JPG's before the buffer filled. > DGN's were 16,710 to 16,570 KB. JPG's were 1,474 to 1,587 KB. > > My quick and dirty learnings? It does take a little bit more > resources to write out DGN or PEF + JPG's. Don't worry about SD card > speed. I can't prove any difference in results right now. > > Regards, Bob S. > > On 12/8/06, Patrick Genovese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what you're saying is you need at least a 133x card for real > > continuos shooting ? > > > > On 12/8/06, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Patrick, > > > I did some tests with a high speed card, don't remember if it was 150x > > > or what. Jpegs were continueous - no buffer overflow. Otherwise, it > > > was 7-9 shots before things slowed to about 1 shot per second. DNG > > > were ~16 meg each but faster than PEF at 9-12 meg each. By that, I > > > mean you got 9 DNG's before slowdown vs only ~7 PEF's... at least > > > that's what I remember. > > > Somebody here suggested that DNG was faster as the PEF's required some > > > processing (compression) before writing to the card. > > > YMMV. > > > Regards, Bob S. > > > > > > > > > On 12/8/06, Patrick Genovese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone done any real life tests on the buffer speed of theK10D ? > > > > > > > > I'm wondering what is the "real life" card speed required to acheive > > > > the 9 frames in raw mode capability. > > > > > > > > Do you get more frames in PEF than in DNG ? > > > > How about JPEG + DNG or Jpeg + PEF ? > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > Patrick > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > [email protected] > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards > > > > Patrick Genovese > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
