I'm surprised. I'll have to see how my Extreme III compares to my 150X Transcend. (I don't have it yet.) I know my Sandisk Ultra II cards don't seem to be a lot slower in the camera than the Transcend card. Paul On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
> On 1/14/07, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The problem Boris, is that the yyyX (the card speed) thing is very >> theoretical. >> >> First if I remember it is read speed. In a camera you (mostly) don't >> care. Write speed are slower of course but the yyyX thing doesn't tell >> you anything about write speed. >> >> Second, Sandisk 133x will probably (but I'm convinced) be quite faster >> than Transcend 150x. It's like batteries... Good brands hold the >> charge, some do not. And I agree the good ones are not always the >> "big" brands. Cards are the same, Brands wit recognition like Sandisk >> will be conservative in their marketing. Transcend doesn't care and >> could market a 120x card as being 150x. I really wouldn't be >> surprised. >> >> Just my 2 cents.. > > Well, I just bought 2 SanDisk Extreme III x133 cards. Their writing is > very noticeably (probably at least twice as slow) slower than that > 150x card. I shall have to use them and see how they work over time. > > -- > Boris > > -- > 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
