Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:04:19 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] OT, SmartMedia size V speed ..

>Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:56:11 +0800
>From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >Maybe my memory/mind has gone further into low gear than I thought after 
>getting it hit by that 3500 lb steel beast...  but I THOUGHT the last time 
>I downloaded a full 16MB CF card from my Nikon to my desktop (AMD T-Bird 
>800 plus a lot of other junk) via USB ... it just went in a flash!  Or, as 
>you'd say Raymond (perhaps as per Neil's 'delete' processing method:)... 
>Wheeee!< <

>Thats why I mentioned at one point that I timed it for when the camera's 
>activity light stops. Windows has a nasty habit of reporting the end time 
>as being when the DRIVER says its got the end of the file. Which is a 
>problem if the driver has a large buffer because then all you're timing is 
>the time taken for the file to make it into the buffer. Given that the 
>computer I was testing on had half a gig of RAM, I'm 99.99% sure that it 
>was shoving my entire test file into buffer (hence it being done in a 
>flash).<


I'll have to install the Nikon software on my brother's desktop and time the 
tranfer from the Nikon's CF card.  My curiosity has been peaked.

M.

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