My tests show that the K10D's write performance continues to improve with every faster card I've tested in it. Right now that means the Sandisk Extreme III (nominally 133x) are fastest, followed by the Transcend 150x, followed by the Sandisk Ultra II (nominally 60x) etc. The Extreme IIi are the fastest cards currently available.
So the fastest cards available are the best cards to use. Download speed is gated by both card speed and the speed of the reader device. The fastest reader I've found to date is the Sandisk Extreme III reader ... it transfers a full 2G of data from Transcend 150x or Sandisk Extreme IIi cards to my Power Mac G5 in less than two and a half minutes. It sounds like your storage tank has a pretty slow reader in it. The Epson P2000 takes about 5-6 minutes to transfer a full 2G card's data. Godfrey On May 15, 2007, at 4:43 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: > I never understood the meaning of card speed. > What should the speed be in order to fully utilize the maxiumum > camera speed > (FPS) when storing images in RAW+ format, please? > > I got a 60x speed card in the mail today, alleged high speed. That > is 60x. > It says 9 Mb pr. second. > But with 3 FPS and 16Mb files, this isn't really fast at all, is it? > > I have been using a standard Sandisk SD card until now. Huge mistake! > Quite often I have got faulty files, that can't be opened/ > converted. That is > a PITA! > I have tried the 60x card just mow. It works well (the images are > stored > OK), but I can't shoot as fast as I should be able to. > Luckily I have also ordered an Sandisk Extreme III card, which > should be > fine, right. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
