Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-11 Thread Albano Garcia
[Original Message] From: Albano Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Date: 11/10/2005 8:24:21 AM Subject: Re: Speed of memory cards... ok, then again, very intersting talk, but my question remians: it's important the speed of the card? extra fast cards

Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Albano Garcia
Hi gang, Just wanted to know, based in your experience, how important is the speed of memory cards (SD) and how it affects camera's performance. Regards Albano Garcia Photography Graphic Design http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar http://www.flaneur.com.ar

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Don Williams
and would prefer to use RAW -- but this would be quite impossible. Don Albano Garcia wrote: Hi gang, Just wanted to know, based in your experience, how important is the speed of memory cards (SD) and how it affects camera's performance. Regards Albano Garcia Photography Graphic Design http

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Maas
wanted to know, based in your experience, how important is the speed of memory cards (SD) and how it affects camera's performance. Regards Albano Garcia Photography Graphic Design http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar http://www.flaneur.com.ar

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Don Williams
-- but this would be quite impossible. Don Albano Garcia wrote: Hi gang, Just wanted to know, based in your experience, how important is the speed of memory cards (SD) and how it affects camera's performance. Regards Albano Garcia Photography Graphic Design http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar http

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Don Williams Subject: Re: Speed of memory cards... For my work rather important. I've been taking series of pictures of dynamic events and after about four pictures the camera needs to unload the buffer into the card. This interrupts the record

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Don Williams Subject: Re: Speed of memory cards... I didn't know that -- what a chump! I should have checked. But I have one further problem. The RAW files can be converted in Photoshop easily and further processed -- but when I convert (to TIFF) and send

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Maas
. Don Albano Garcia wrote: Hi gang, Just wanted to know, based in your experience, how important is the speed of memory cards (SD) and how it affects camera's performance. Regards Albano Garcia Photography Graphic Design http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar http://www.flaneur.com.ar

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Maas
William Robb wrote: If you check file sizes, I think you will find that TIFFs are larger than RAW files. If this is the case, then it would be faster to write RAW files to the card. My experience is with the istD, which definitely has smaller RAW files than TIFFs. William Robb Has to be

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Adam Maas Subject: Re: Speed of memory cards... That's a PS issue, or more likely a PSP issue. My offhand guess is that PSP is not honouring the embedded colour profile. Convert them to sRGB and you should be good to go. Or send them as PSD's, which PSP

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Adam Maas Subject: Re: Speed of memory cards... Has to be the D anyways, the DS and co don't do TIFF. I was just testing you. William Robb

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10 Nov 2005 at 9:30, William Robb wrote: I just checked the Corel website regarding this. It looks like you need version X to get 16 bit support, which is what the istD TIFFs need out of the camera. TIFF straight out of the *istD are 8 bit. It's hard to say exactly what Don means by

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Rob Studdert Subject: Re: Speed of memory cards... On 10 Nov 2005 at 9:30, William Robb wrote: I just checked the Corel website regarding this. It looks like you need version X to get 16 bit support, which is what the istD TIFFs need out of the camera

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Maas
PEF doesn't have a colourspace per se. The convention holds from the JPEG and TIFF's and also affects the embedded JPEG as well as the default conversion settings, but as the PEF is raw sensor data it can't have a colourspace. I use ProPhotoRGB for my PEF conversion space just fine. -Adam

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Albano Garcia
ok, then again, very intersting talk, but my question remians: it's important the speed of the card? extra fast cards are worth it? Regards Albano --- Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Nov 2005 at 9:30, William Robb wrote: I just checked the Corel website regarding this. It

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Maas
Moderately fast cards will be beneficial, although the camera will not take full advantage of the fastest cards available. You will still see a noticable boost in a card reader with the fastest cards, which aids in getting images off the camera (use a card reader, the in-camera USB is slow and

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 10, 2005, at 7:30 AM, William Robb wrote: I just checked the Corel website regarding this. It looks like you need version X to get 16 bit support, which is what the istD TIFFs need out of the camera. The *ist D TIFFs are [EMAIL PROTECTED] First I'd ever heard that. Godfrey

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 10, 2005, at 5:37 AM, Albano Garcia wrote: Just wanted to know, based in your experience, how important is the speed of memory cards (SD) and how it affects camera's performance. Cards that are slower than the camera's IO capability will present the limit to how fast a camera can

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Albano Garcia
Thanks for the info! --- Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 5:37 AM, Albano Garcia wrote: Just wanted to know, based in your experience, how important is the speed of memory cards (SD) and how it affects camera's performance. Cards that are slower than

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Dario Bonazza
- Original Message - From: Albano Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:22 PM Subject: Re: Speed of memory cards... ok, then again, very intersting talk, but my question remians: it's important the speed of the card? extra fast cards

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread P. J. Alling
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Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Shel Belinkoff
@pdml.net Date: 11/10/2005 8:24:21 AM Subject: Re: Speed of memory cards... ok, then again, very intersting talk, but my question remians: it's important the speed of the card? extra fast cards are worth it?

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10 Nov 2005 at 11:17, Adam Maas wrote: PEF doesn't have a colourspace per se. The convention holds from the JPEG and TIFF's and also affects the embedded JPEG as well as the default conversion settings, but as the PEF is raw sensor data it can't have a colourspace. Of course but the

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Maas
Rob Studdert wrote: On 10 Nov 2005 at 11:17, Adam Maas wrote: PEF doesn't have a colourspace per se. The convention holds from the JPEG and TIFF's and also affects the embedded JPEG as well as the default conversion settings, but as the PEF is raw sensor data it can't have a colourspace.

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10 Nov 2005 at 18:33, Adam Maas wrote: Of course the issue there isn't Pentax's fault. The standard is broken (Massively), and Pentax is just folowing the standard for it's naming convention. How so? EXIF 1.0 has the ability to contain a standard colorspace tag, isn't it simply the case

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Herb Chong
of memory cards... The problem is that colorspace in a PEF is denoted by file name conventions not embedded, so the recipient has to know that an underscore preceding the name indicated that the assumed colorspace is AdobeRGB and assign it manually, a crap system really.

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10 Nov 2005 at 21:26, Herb Chong wrote: my RAW files are not named any differently whether set to Adobe RGB or sRGB. the JPG and TIFF files are named differently. Sorry yes you are correct, I intended the comment to refer to camera generated TIFF and JPEG files as did the initial query.

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: Of course but the in-camera TIFF or JPEG files are processed to conform with either sRGB or AdobeRGB yet the colorspace information isn't embedded. It's assumed that the file will be opened and assigned the correct colorspace manually by

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Maas
Rob Studdert wrote: On 10 Nov 2005 at 18:33, Adam Maas wrote: Of course the issue there isn't Pentax's fault. The standard is broken (Massively), and Pentax is just folowing the standard for it's naming convention. How so? EXIF 1.0 has the ability to contain a standard colorspace

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10 Nov 2005 at 20:05, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: When I open a JPEG file that has been made in-camera with Adobe RGB colorspace, it puts the funny file name on it and Photoshop opens it directly. If it had no colorspace profile or one that wasn't A-RGB, it would ask me whether I wanted

Re: Speed of memory cards...

2005-11-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:13 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 10 Nov 2005 at 20:05, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: When I open a JPEG file that has been made in-camera with Adobe RGB colorspace, it puts the funny file name on it and Photoshop opens it directly. If it had no colorspace profile or one that