Hello Rebekah, The *istD is fairly slow at writing - about the max speed it can go is 40X. So any card faster than that is wasted on that camera. That is one of the biggest reasons for my upgrade to the K10D when it came out.
HTH, Bruce -- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, April 12, 2008, 8:02:04 AM, you wrote: R> How fast is the buffer in the *ist D? I'm looking around at memory R> cards online and saw with a jolt several 266x 8GB cards. I remember R> when I got a laptop that had a HARD DRIVE of 8GB and felt so proud of R> it......Wow, I guess I stopped paying attention to the advance of R> technology. Anyways, I've got a card that writes at 80x, and R> occasionally I run into a moment where I'm waiting for pictures to R> save before I can resume shooting. Is that the speed of the camera or R> the card? If I purchased a 266x card, would the camera be able to R> keep up, or would the speed of the card be downright pointless? R> Thanks in advance all ;) R> rg2 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
