On May 15, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > Wow, tho 250 seconds - that's fast.
Yes, the Extreme reader is very very fast. > I am looking forward to getting my Extreeme III card - my photo > dealer wants > 120 USD for a card like this - I found one in Germany for less than > half ! > Everything is so expensive here :-( Transcend 150x cards in 2G capacity here are about $21@ at present. Sandisk Extreme IIIs run about $36@ right now. They're giving them away. I just bought six more of the Transcends ... the additional speed between them and the Extreme III isn't of any significance to me. > Buying a faster image tank seems to be quite expensive compared to > one or > two extra cards :-) I already have two tanks - the X's Drive and a > Flash > Trax (CF card only), but equiped with a CF to SD card adapter (this > does BTW > allow me to use SD cards in the *ist D as well :-). That's the culprit. I've got three SD->CF adapters (not the other way around, can't be done) from when I had both CF and SD devices for similar reasons. The max throughput I can get with them, with any card, is between 1.5 and 2.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] read speed. The Epson P2000 has dedicated slots for both CF and SD cards. Unfortunately, it doesn't support the SDHC cards, which is why I have stuck with 2G as my standard capacity. (Good enough for 150 or so K10D PEF files, so not a problem; the P3000/P5000 models support SDHC but it's not worth the upgrade cost for me at present.) I think I'll time the Epson for a more accurate transfer speed assessment. :-) > As long as I have one or two cards to use, it normally won't be a > problem if > it takes 30 miutes to "empty" the card. Except perhaps for the battery > consumption. Still, I do own a current inverter for the car > lighter, so I > can charge the battery in the X's Drive, using the car battery - > that is > whenever I have a car near by :-) Given the price of SD card memory available now, I have accumulated about 30G of card storage capacity. The P2000 is used for backup and review in lieu of a laptop ... with 30G on tap, that's enough card storage space to last me most of a three week trip if I fill the cards, one at a time, before downloading to the P2000. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
