Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the writes are faster with ridata and it also cheaper, a 2gig card goes for under 140 On 8/16/05, Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> wrote: > At 12:46 PM -0700 8/16/05, mehrdad wrote: > >it is not ultra iii but extreme iii and the the speed for these card > >are 20 and not 10. the extreme iii are 1 gig and the ridata are two > >gig. i ma using the ridata right now with the dmr. > > > >On 8/16/05, Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't think the ultra is any faster - check their site. Both havd > >> r/w speeds around 10mb > >> > >> I will have to check out the ridata card. What is max size? 1 or 2gb? > >> > >> thanks, > >> Eric > >> > >> > >> On 8/16/05, mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > eric, there are two other cards faster than the one u are using now > >> > > >> > 1) sandisk ultra III > >> > 2) ridata 155x card (mydigitaldiscount.com) > >> > > > > > both are about twice as fast the ultra ii > > > > > > I have no experience or data on the DMR, but in what is otherwise one > of the very fastest writing cameras, the Canon 1D MkII, the > difference between the Sandisk Extreme III and the Ultra II is quite > small and in practice would be hard to differentiate. Around 8Mb/sec > is the top speed achieved. > > Also note that in most cases, the fastest cards are the somewhat > smaller sizes, ie 2Gb cards are almost always slower than 1Gb cards; > again not a big or probably noticeable difference but on the same > order as the difference between the Extreme III and the Ultra II. > > The differences between these cards can well become important at some > time, but that does not seem to be the case at present. If the DMR > bogs down to write out the data after 10 shots at 2fps, then I don't > think the write speed of the camera to the cards is going to be > sufficient to allow the theoretically faster speeds of the Extreme > III or the Ridata to shine. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad