CF Ultra II's are quite fast, for last-generation cards. Not quite up to the current max speed.
SD Ultra II's are indeed faster last I checked. But they're current 133x cards. -Adam Aaron Reynolds wrote: > I've never shopped by "name", so I don't know what the write speed of an > Ultra II translates to. > > -Aaron > > -- > http://aaronreynolds.ca > http://battersbox.ca > http://hardballtimes.com > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subj: Re: 4 GB SD cards for istDS/DS2, istDL/DL2 > Date: Tue 2006 Aug 22 7:03 am > Size: 1K > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > > At 06:44 PM 22/08/2006, you wrote: > > >>On Aug 22, 2006, at 3:18 AM, David Savage wrote: >> >> >>>Not if you'd bought $500+ (a 1GB & a 2GB in my case) worth of CF cards >>>you wouldn't. >> >>David -- are those cards fast compared to what's out there currently, >>or would putting them into your new camera put you at a significant >>write speed disadvantage? Considering when you bought them, I'm going >>to have to guess that they're very slow compared to what's out there >>now in SD. > > > All of them are Sandisk Ultra II's. Are the SD Ultra II's faster? > > >>So, to save $100 (the total cost of a fast 1GB card and a fast 2GB SD >>card if you don't shop around for the best price and get screwed on >>shipping) you would cripple your camera's write speed, effectively >>reducing the number of frames you could shoot in a row and how quickly >>you recover after shooting a burst. Why would you do that? Would you >>buy a $1200 film camera and insist on only putting Gold Max in it? > > > Probably, because I'm illogical. > > >>>For a camera maker know for backwards compatibility, IMO they should >>>have put in a dual memory card slot. >> >>Bad for two reasons: >> >>1) makes the camera bigger >>2) cheap users will constantly complain on the internet about how slow >>their very expensive new camera is. >> >>-Aaron > > > The camera (K10D) has already got bigger to fit the SR mechanism. > > I see your point guy's, it's just the Scottish blood in me that hates > paying for stuff again and again. > > I guess I'm overruled in this matter so I'll just shut my yap. > > Dave > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
