Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/23

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Subject: [Leica] M8 and SD cards
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Mar 23 18:19:19 2007

Dante,

Unfortunately all I have are the Extreme III SD cards, which I assume are 
accelerated?  Wrtie speed seems to be 1 second or less.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Dante Stella <dstella1@ameritech.net>: 
-------------- 


> For people who have used M8s for a while, do you need accelerated SD 
> cards with the camera? Or is the normal SD write speed generally 
> sufficient for M-type pictures? I don't see filling up a huge 
> buffer, and from what I have read, it would be 5 seconds write time 
> per card for standard-speed SD. 
> 
> The reason I ask is that my Kodak 14n really likes Microdrives or 
> accelerated CF - but when writing to the SD card, it doesn't seem to 
> care how fast the card is. 
> 
> Thanks 
> Dante 
> 
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