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Re: Photogs: CF card write speeds

Interesting - thanks, Chris!
Larry 


on 12/2/2006 1:11 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey at topica.com@spamfodder.com
wrote:

>> For you photogs out there, I recently took advantage of a CF card deal at
>> Frys.com. My only disappointment was that write speed is only about 60X
>> (speed was not advertised ­ should have been a clue). So I decided to do an
>> informal test.
> 
> For those of you wanting more information on memory card write speeds,
> this URL might help:
> 
>    http://hort.net/+1hXT
> 
> Basically, it tells you what a memory card corresponds to in terms
> of write speeds -- 60x means that it can write 9MB/s.
> 
> In my case, using a Nikon D200 at a sustained rate of 5fps with
> high quality 10 megapixel images (averaging about 4MB each), I'd need
> a card that can handle 20MB/s.  Their table shows that would mean
> a 133x or greater card.
> 
> Many of the newer cards forgo this multiplying factor and just list
> the MB/s, so you can work backwards to figure out what might work
> for a given camera as well.
> 
> Chris
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