> Why buy an 80x card? It's way to fast for ANY camera.
A few things: 1. 80X is Lexar spec. with their Write Acceleration (WA) technology, WA is currently not support by Canon equipment, but is by Nikon and some other manufacturers. There is an on-line comparison of read and write speed comparison of different media brands with different DSLR bodies, the 80X is right around the top of the 40X crop of media for Canon cameras. 2. To compete with the new and faster Sandisk Extreme III medias, Lexar recently came out with their second generation of the 80X media that is just a bit faster than the original generation, the problem is that while they've started shipping these new media about a month ago, for some unexplained reason they did not announce it nor did they distinguish the new ones from the old ones in terms of the external packaging. It is only in the past few days Lexar came clean and said that until the new packaging is introduced next year, the new 80X media can be identified by the last 4 digits of the edge-stamp code (which you cannot see until the media is removed from the card board packaging) and by the red translucent seal tape on the flap of the card board packaging. 3. While maybe no camera can use the "80X" speed at this time, it might save time while downloading use reader that supports the WA technology, not that I'm personally aware of such reader exists right now, and who knows if the next technology advance in DSLR is significantly increased read/write speed !! Ken -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
