*Ist-D memory write speed

[Brian Dunn]

Short version:
Does the Ist-D write faster if you have a faster memory card?
Long version:
I currently have a Canon Digi-Rebel, and regret the small viewfinder and the 
partial metering button.
Coming from Pentax K-1000s, plus a Minolta 600si with a lot of nice external 
switches, it looks like I'd be happier with an Ist-D instead of an Ist-DS.  I 
enjoy spot metering, for example, and wish the DS had a custom function to set 
one of the four way switches to select metering instead of flash mode, say.  
Maybe Pentax will add that some day.
Reviews of the older D say it only does a frame every 2.5 seconds once the 
buffer fills.  During a church play with a recessional where pairs of actors go 
past two by two, my Digi Rebel was really struggling to keep up.  It does not 
write anything as long as you are holding the shutter at half press.  The Ist-D 
probably does write even if you are focusing on the next subject, but does it 
write any faster than every other second?
Will a faster memory card speed up the D's write speeds?

Brian Dunn
http://www.bdphotographic.com

Re: *Ist-D memory write speed

[Cotty]

On 25/3/05, Brian Dunn, discombobulated, unleashed:

my Digi Rebel was really struggling to keep up.  It does not write
anything as long as you are holding the shutter at half press.

Are you sure about this? It sounds very fishy to me. A half press of the
shutter should have no effect on the camera clearing its buffer to the
card.




Cheers,
  Cotty


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Re: *Ist-D memory write speed

[Brian Dunn]

 Canon DigiRebel doesn't write while half pressing shutter button...
Are you sure about this?

I just now set continuous and fired off 15 shots.  It didn't light up the 
memory card light until I finally let up on the shutter button.  It was then 
very busy for a while.
The original DigiRebel supposedly runs DOS inside of it...!
Brian Dunn
http://www.bdphotographic.com