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coolpix 5700 and speed of writing to cf card
Hi,
I have a coolpix 5700 that I'm reasonably happy with, but lately I've been more and more annoyed at the time it takes to write the raw photo to the compact flash card. I realize I'm writing almost 7 megs worth of data, but it's taking what feels like a minute per shot (probably closer to 30 seconds, I'll admit I haven't timed it). I can also only take about 3 raw photos before I have to wait a few minutes for the camera to write its buffer to the card. Is this normal? I've seen the ads for the high speed cards, 45x!, 32x!, super fast!, yadda, yadda, yadda, but do the really work? Will the 5700 actually write the picture to the card faster on these cards? Is this just marketing? Or do only the newer cameras take advantage of the high speed cards? I've been lusting after the 8 megapixel models like the 8700, the digital rebel, and the pentax (I forget the model), so I'm curious if this is an even worse problem on the bigger data files. Thanks for any suggestions. |
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