Thank you for your answer so complete that I found myself dumb to ask ! ^_^
I hope the buffer can get larger in the future, but I do not think so... Or so much expensive that I will Bought a *ist D n II hi hi hi > On 22 Feb 2004 at 0:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > Here in France, every body who own a DSLR knows that one can order CF > > Ridata pro in this website. > > > > www.powerinnumbers.com.au > > > > Nikon users seems to be glad to use as well as Canon users too. > > > > But, does any *istD user try it ? Is there a big difference between the > > Ridata x52 and the Sandisk Utra 2 ? > > So little difference that it is insignificant. > > See my post sent to the list 26th Jan 2004: > > I just tested my CF cards for RAW write performance using the criterion set at > the Rob Galbraith page > (http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6432) and found that > my new Ridata 2GB 52x Pro cards deliver 1758kB/s which puts them just slightly > behind the Sandisk Ultra II and Extreme in his table. My old 512MB CF cards > were spec'd at 20x and came in at 1566kB/s. I'd be interested to see what > difference if any the new Write Acceleration technology might make. > > What it boils down to is that if you need to engage in continuous shooting in > RAW past the 5 image buffer you'll be looking at about 7seconds at the very > least between subsequent images even using the fastest CF cards. If you need to > keep the buffer empty you need to shoot JPEG. > > Cheers, > > > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 >