Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don't know about Leica, but it makes a pretty big difference on my Fujis and even bigger difference on the Nikon D800E - I am specifically talking about SD cards here. The big bottleneck in taking bursts is always the buffer and write speed, and I would always upgrade the SD card as the cheapest way possible of improving it. If you do not take bursts, it should not matter one bit. Like everything photographic, it depends on the use we put eqipment to... Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote: > I 'm sorry to post this again because I suspect it has been discussed but > inasmuch as neither the LUG Search function nor my internal memory function > are working very well I'll have to. > > I see that Leica suggests Sandisk Ultra or Extreme Class 10 SD cards with > speeds >30 MB/s. http://content.abt.com/documents/54249/LEICAM_FAQ.pdf > > There are some folks on another well known Leica forum who say the speed - > both waking and shooting - is noticeably better with the latest and fastest > cards, which have maximum speeds of 95 MB/s. I have also seen posters in > various forii say they get faster speeds with 16GB cards than they do with > 32GB cards. > > I'm just curious to know if any LUGers have discerned - when shooting with > an M (240) or an M-P (240) - noticeably faster speeds or any other > _noticeable_ advantage to using 60 MB/s versus 95 MB/s SD cards, and also > any _noticeable_ speed difference when using 16GB, 32GB or larger cards. > > Thanks, > > --Bob > > p.s. Uncle Dr. Ted is certainly free to ignore this thread. ;-) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >