Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sold my D700 with its cards last month - 6 of them - as many brands as you'd wish to find in Europe or the US. Only one ever failed over the time I had the camera, it was a ? Kodak which robbed me of my colours, RIP Amities Ph Le 11 avr. 2015 ? 04:03, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> a ?crit : > Just in case someone is interested as I know D700's are not uncommon on the > LUG my year old 60mb's fast card listed below from last year is not made > any more. They are 160mb's fast now and cost a bit less, 50 bucks instead > of 60. That's the 16gb card. The word is out that the camera itself only > writes to 25 or 35 mb's per second. So it would seem to be a waste of > money. > Any of it. But I think it would still work. And somehow it just might be a > good thing. > Driving a Ferrari 25mph is a good thing right? > > > On 4/10/15 9:48 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> On my DSLR I use a SanDisk Extreme 60mb's 16GB UDMA card it takes a >> licken and >> keeps on ticken. The first real money I ever spent on a card I think it >> was 60 >> bucks a year ago. >> My camera really seems spunkier. Seems quite self assured. I think its >> happier. I had a cheap card which made me turn off and on the camera. And >> it >> wasn't red it was green. Not a good color for cards. >> I'm sticking with red SanDisk cards for now on. >> >> People on Nikon lists say " Supported is different than working." >> My camera supposedly doesn't "support" a 16GB card. A fact that had I >> known >> that when I bought this for 60 bucks would have worried me. Despite all >> these >> people saying that everybody they know uses 16 and 32 gb cards in their >> D700's. Now I am part of that "everybody" as its been a year. >> But I'm not getting a 32 gb card as I cant fell this 16gb card. >> I bet this same card if its made now cost half as much as in 30 >> bucks...... >> (he's checking) >> >> >> On 4/10/15 9:31 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have used the Sandisk Ultra cards and can tell no difference from any >>> other SD card, including the Transcend cards that I usually use. Maybe I >>> don't shoot as many bursts and don't need as much speed as others might, >>> but I have found that a normal SD card works just as well as any of the >>> super, ultra, extreme, or high speed ones do. But then I have never run >>> into a bottleneck problem with any card. >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM, 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information