Jens Bladt wrote: > I never understood the meaning of card speed. > What should the speed be in order to fully utilize the maxiumum camera speed > (FPS) when storing images in RAW+ format, please?
The faster the better. :-) I have a Sandisk Extreme III, a couple of Transcend 150x cards, and a DaneElec (which is very slow.) I don't see much difference in shooting off a quick burst - the camera buffer takes care of that. But for long bursts or for image reviews, the DaneElec is really slow. The Sandisk is fastest followed by the transcend. Since the Transcend cost the same as the bargain DaneElec - it was at the sweet spot of cost / performance when I was buying cards. > PS: > At a football game last Sunday, I discovered, that my Vosonic X's drive > (hard drive/card reader) used app. 30 minutes to store one card of 2 GB. > That's a VERY long time. My X's Drive II seemed to choke on the high speed cards - it would download a little bit, and then stop with an error. It sometimes did manage a whole card download and 30 minutes was about the time - maybe longer. I settled for 4 2-meg SD cards and a Compactflash PD70x reader. After shooting 8 gigs I'm ready for a break, and the PD 70x can dump a 2 gig card in under 10 minutes. > Well, now I have three 2GB SD cards, so hopefully I have enough memory for > the next soccer game :-) > The football club keep giving me free tickets, since I take pictures! Or is > it perhaps because I'm doing the local plan (development brief) for their > new Football Stadium :-) > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72157600210223068/ Nice shots! - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
