I just ran a test and I can NOT confirm the USB2 speed for the *ist D connected to a PC. This is what I did: I connected the *ist D with my PC by means of the Pentax supplied USB cable, and copied all 15 RAW images that I had on the flash card to a folder on a drive of my PC. That took about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Then I removed the flash card and put it in a USB2 6 in 1 card reader, and now using the same 15 images to copy to the same drive in another folder, I found a time of 1 minute and 2 seconds. So the reader was 3.5 times faster. I have the firmware version 1.11 on my *ist D.
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:26, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: > On 2004-03-31, at 14:40, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > "While the manual claims that the *ist D only supports the USB v1.1 > > interface standard, my own tests seemed to show that it's actually > > running at USB v2.0 speeds. I clocked its download speed at 1963 > > KB/second with a Lexar 24x memory card, connected to my Sony VAIO > > Windows XP workstation. (2.4 GHz Pentium IV processor, 512 MB of RAM.) > > This is quite fast: Cameras with USB v1.1 interfaces top out at a > > little > > over 600 KB/second. I've seen USB 2.0-equipped cameras move data as > > quickly as several MB/second, but the *ist D's download speed is faster > > than average, even among cameras with USB 2.0 interfaces." > > That's indeed very interesting. I just bought USB 2 card for my Mac - > will try it :-) > > Best regards > Sylwek > -- Frits Wüthrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
