> > A lot of people get excited about CF speed, but I really don't think > it is too big of a deal unless you plan on shooting sports or other > things were timing is critical. The buffer on the *ist D is pretty > big and I've never filled it in normal shooting...only when I was > holding the shutter button down to see how quickly I could fill it. > The money that you would spend on a fast 512mb card will often get > you a slow 1gb CF card and I'd rather have the space than the speed.
Plus, as I've noted before, the correlation between card speed rating and speed of image transfer isn't straightforward - from observations of other photographer with various Nikon & Canon digital SLRs sometimes a 'high speed' card actually performs worse than lower-rated cards when used in a particular camera model. When the dpReview for the *ist-D comes out it's likely that several CF cards will be tested. Check there first if you are concerned. I've got a couple of MicroDrives on order because they were cheap - $200. They're not as fast as the fastest CF cards, but should be OK.
