Panasonic DMC-FZ1 w/ high speed SD card?

I need to get a bigger SD card for a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1 and I'm
wondering if I should spring for the high speed SD card, or just regular SD
card. Will this camera be able to utilize the speed of a high speed SD
card?

Thanks for any info or experiences

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:12:23 -0800, "dreamer"
wrote:

I need to get a bigger SD card for a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1 and I'm
wondering if I should spring for the high speed SD card, or just regular SD
card. Will this camera be able to utilize the speed of a high speed SD
card?

I think not.

It's difficult to be sure though. You'd exhaustive tests with
the exact same memory module type.

Hans-Georg

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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:12:23 -0800, "dreamer"
wrote:

I need to get a bigger SD card for a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1 and I'm
wondering if I should spring for the high speed SD card, or just regular SD
card. Will this camera be able to utilize the speed of a high speed SD
card?

I think not.

It's difficult to be sure though. You'd exhaustive tests with
the exact same memory module type.

Hans-Georg

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No mail, please.

Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:12:23 -0800, "dreamer"
wrote:

I need to get a bigger SD card for a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1 and I'm
wondering if I should spring for the high speed SD card, or just
regular SD card. Will this camera be able to utilize the speed of a
high speed SD card?

I think not.

It's difficult to be sure though. You'd exhaustive tests with
the exact same memory module type.

Hans-Georg

I believe that it /does/ make a difference on the FZ20, though. SanDisk
Ultra II and Kingmax Platinum have been mentioned. This is not from my
own tests, so not gospel!

The cost difference seems minimal - we paid GPB 62.28 for 1GB.

David

Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:12:23 -0800, "dreamer"
wrote:

I need to get a bigger SD card for a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1 and I'm
wondering if I should spring for the high speed SD card, or just
regular SD card. Will this camera be able to utilize the speed of a
high speed SD card?

I think not.

It's difficult to be sure though. You'd exhaustive tests with
the exact same memory module type.

Hans-Georg

I believe that it /does/ make a difference on the FZ20, though. SanDisk
Ultra II and Kingmax Platinum have been mentioned. This is not from my
own tests, so not gospel!

The cost difference seems minimal - we paid GPB 62.28 for 1GB.

David

"dreamer" wrote in message ...
I need to get a bigger SD card for a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1 and I'm
wondering if I should spring for the high speed SD card, or just regular SD
card. Will this camera be able to utilize the speed of a high speed SD
card?

Thanks for any info or experiences


Hi,

Yes it seems to benefit from a faster card. With a normal speed
(2mb/sec) card a four shot burst takes about 8 secs to write to the
card, but with my 256mb Panasonic 10mb/sec card it takes about 2
seconds. You should probably check the dpreview.com Panasonic forum
for comfirmation, of course. I vaguely recall that the smaller
capacity Panasonic cards (128mb???) aren't 10mb/sec.

Will