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Signifigance of CF Speed
About 8 months ago I bought a Canon Camera. It
came with a 32 mb CF card. I am thinking about getting a bigger CF. What is the speed of the card I got (it doesn't say)? How important is the speed of the CF? |
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"Al" wrote in message ... About 8 months ago I bought a Canon Camera. It came with a 32 mb CF card. I am thinking about getting a bigger CF. What is the speed of the card I got (it doesn't say)? Could you perchance tell us who made the card? How important is the speed of the CF? Not very. Doesn't the manual tell you what speed is appropriate for your camera? Jim |
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Jim wrote:
"Al" wrote in message ... About 8 months ago I bought a Canon Camera. It came with a 32 mb CF card. I am thinking about getting a bigger CF. What is the speed of the card I got (it doesn't say)? Could you perchance tell us who made the card? How important is the speed of the CF? Not very. Doesn't the manual tell you what speed is appropriate for your camera? Jim Duuuuhhh. I never thought of that. I checked. It doesn't say a word. |
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"Al" wrote in message ...
Jim wrote: "Al" wrote in message ... About 8 months ago I bought a Canon Camera. It came with a 32 mb CF card. I am thinking about getting a bigger CF. What is the speed of the card I got (it doesn't say)? Could you perchance tell us who made the card? How important is the speed of the CF? Not very. Doesn't the manual tell you what speed is appropriate for your camera? Jim Duuuuhhh. I never thought of that. I checked. It doesn't say a word. Most of Canon's point-and-shoot models ship with relatively slow CF memory made by SimpleTech (it's around 8x speed). One way or another (whether it's review times, writing times for burst mode/movie clips etc) you will see improvements with faster memory. Get the fastest memory you can afford. |
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It depends how advanced your camera is. Is it an SLR & does it have a
motor drive, or is it a $200 point & shoot? The high end cameras all have a large buffer to handle the motor drive shots. If you need to fire off more than 20 shots within a 30 second period, you'll need to have a high speed card in order to empty the buffer & shoot again. For a point & shoot, you won't need one faster than a 1X (150kb/sec.) Winston |
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It depends how advanced your camera is. Is it an SLR & does it have a
motor drive, or is it a $200 point & shoot? The high end cameras all have a large buffer to handle the motor drive shots. If you need to fire off more than 20 shots within a 30 second period, you'll need to have a high speed card in order to empty the buffer & shoot again. For a point & shoot, you won't need one faster than a 1X (150kb/sec.) Winston |
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"Winston" wrote in message ups.com...
It depends how advanced your camera is. Is it an SLR & does it have a motor drive, or is it a $200 point & shoot? The high end cameras all have a large buffer to handle the motor drive shots. If you need to fire off more than 20 shots within a 30 second period, you'll need to have a high speed card in order to empty the buffer & shoot again. For a point & shoot, you won't need one faster than a 1X (150kb/sec.) That last claim is ridiculous. We saw drastic improvements (review speed, lag times when writing movie clips etc) in our very low-end A40 when we switched from regular Sandisk to Sandisk Ultra II. |
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It depends how advanced your camera is. Is it an SLR & does it have a
motor drive, or is it a $200 point & shoot? The high end cameras all have a large buffer to handle the motor drive shots. If you need to fire off more than 20 shots within a 30 second period, you'll need to have a high speed card in order to empty the buffer & shoot again. For a point & shoot, you won't need one faster than a 1X (150kb/sec.) It would seem somewhat the opposite to me. I have a relatively slow card in both my Digital Rebel XT and my point-and-shoot. With the buffer of the DR XT, the write speed of the card isn't much of a concern - at least not until I've fired at least 12 burst shots. On the other hand, in my point-and-shoot with no buffer, the slow card means an extra second or two between *every* shot. My chances of missing a subsequent shot are a lot higher with the P&S than the DR XT. teve |
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Winston wrote:
It depends how advanced your camera is. Is it an SLR & does it have a motor drive, or is it a $200 point & shoot? The high end cameras all have a large buffer to handle the motor drive shots. If you need to fire off more than 20 shots within a 30 second period, you'll need to have a high speed card in order to empty the buffer & shoot again. For a point & shoot, you won't need one faster than a 1X (150kb/sec.) Winston S50 |
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Al writes:
About 8 months ago I bought a Canon Camera. It came with a 32 mb CF card. I am thinking about getting a bigger CF. What is the speed of the card I got (it doesn't say)? How important is the speed of the CF? It depends on the camera. Many prosumer cameras aren't that fast about writing to the CF card, so faster media is wasted (though faster media will upload faster if you are using a USB 2.0/firewire card reader). Many of the DSLRs have some amount of optimization for high speed cards built in. -- Michael Meissner email: http://www.the-meissners.org |
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