"Whiskers" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On 2006-02-21, R. Frist wrote:
Having given my trusty Pentax 43WR to my son to take to Iraq I am in
the market for a new point and shoot camera and memory card. Some
advertisements imply that the higher speed cards inable one to take
better action shots. My question: do higher speed cards have any
advantage other than reducing the time it takes for the camera to
recover between shots?

Not as far as I've ever been able to discover. The biggest problem
digital cameras have with 'action' shots is 'shutter lag': the delay
between you squeezing the button and the camera actually taking the
picture. This has nothing to do with the sort of memory card installed
and is entirely down to the design of the camera; different models vary
widely and for action shots, short shutter lag is a feature you should be
looking for.

Although what you say is true I often switch to burst mode when I know that
I'm going to take action shots to compensate for shutter lag. In that case
the speed of the link between camera and card does make a difference on how
much frames you can capture per second. The card may be the limiting factor
or the camera. I tend to buy high speed cards to be on the safe side - the
price difference doesn't seem to be worth bothering. Don't go for
microdrives - they need more power and are more fragile.

This site is useful for comparing different models
http://www.dpreview.com/.

I second that.

Kind regards

robert