Re: Memory cards and batteries for the ist D? (Now a New Query)

2003-10-14 Thread Joseph Tainter
"It's the amount of data the camera can handle before it has to write some of it to the Flash memory. You take one shot at a time and buffer size isn't relevant but take 6 quick ones and you'll see why it's an issue..." Right. I should have asked "What is the size of the buffer?" Thanks, Joe

Re: Memory cards and batteries for the ist D? (Now a New Query)

2003-10-13 Thread cbwaters
It's the amount of data the camera can handle before it has to write some of it to the Flash memory. You take one shot at a time and buffer size isn't relevant but take 6 quick ones and you'll see why it's an issue... Cory Waters - Original Message - From: "Joseph Tainter" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Memory cards and batteries for the ist D?

2003-10-13 Thread John Francis
> > A lot of people get excited about CF speed, but I really don't think > it is too big of a deal unless you plan on shooting sports or other > things were timing is critical. The buffer on the *ist D is pretty > big and I've never filled it in normal shooting...only when I was > holding the shu

RE: Memory cards and batteries for the ist D?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Brigham
Congrats - hope the bribe wasn't too painful and/or expensive! I had to give my wife the same value in money, plus agree to spend the same again on doing up the house! I must have the most expensive *istD in the world!! > -Original Message- > From: Paul Eriksson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory cards and batteries for the ist D?

2003-10-13 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Paul Eriksson" Subject: Memory cards and batteries for the ist D? > The wife finally ok'd the purchase but the store said it would be 2-3 weeks > before the next shipment. Now I have to figure out the memory and battery > requirements. I figured that a sing

RE: Memory cards and batteries for the ist D?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Brigham
Yep, get the highest mah rating you can. Make sure you get batts which are rated as OK for fast charging too, if you get a fast charger. If you want to shoot RAW then go for no less than 1Gb in my opinion. As Alex says 512 is fine for jpgs. I can wholeheartely recommend the Lexar 1Gb cards. Th

Re: Memory cards and batteries for the ist D?

2003-10-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Paul Eriksson wrote: > The wife finally ok'd the purchase but the store said it would be 2-3 weeks > before the next shipment. Now I have to figure out the memory and battery > requirements. I figured that a single 512mb or 1gb card would be sufficient > to start out with, an