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On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 01:40, William M Kane wrote:
> The question is what speed DID you confirm? I believe that the
> original article spoke of an unusually high speed for USB 1.1, but
> didn't claim it was of USB 2.0 caliber . . .
>
> . . . so the question becomes, How many MB were the 15 RAW files?
>
> IL Bill
> On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 03:19 PM, Frits Wüthrich wrote:
>
> > 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]>
> >
>
>
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Frits Wüthrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
