which compact flash

[Red Squirrel]

I'm looking for a fast compact flash card for my 10d, but read in an earlier post that the lexar WA cards (30x or higher ) are perhaps a waste of money. Is there a speed limit after which the 10d can't keep up?
Would the 12x be sufficient?

thanks. :shock:

[OviV]

I too I'm interested in this.

Thank you,
Ovi

[Scottes]

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007

Rob Galbraith's CompactFlash Performance Database

[Fuzzleak]

I use the San Disk Ultra II 1GB purchased at B&H @ 289.99. Well worth it, I can shoot about 160 raw/Jpeg Fine files and 407 Jpeg Large Fine files. I never used any other card so to me it is fast. You'll really notice it when you download your pix through a high speed 2.0 card reader, I'm ready to purchase another on, but this time the 512 version as a back up. One should always carry at least two cards.

[Longwatcher]

I'm looking for a fast compact flash card for my 10d, but read in an earlier post that the lexar WA cards (30x or higher ) are perhaps a waste of money. Is there a speed limit after which the 10d can't keep up?
Would the 12x be sufficient?

thanks. :shock:

I am of the opinion that the Lexar 12x cards are close to the best you can get for the D60/10D/300D. based on my research a 20x would probably max out the camera to card write speed, but after doing the double buffer fill* it probably only adds .5 seconds to the total write time over the best you could do with the 12x Lexars.

I have two Lexar 256MB 12x, one 256MB Memorex, one 340MB IBM microdrive, and one 1GB sandisk. The microdrive is slowest overall, followed by Memorex, Sandisk, with Lexars being fastest.

[* double buffer is when you have taken about one picture per second with complete release of the trigger between shots and both the sensor buffer and the write buffer get filled (17-18 shots) you basically can't take any more pictures for at least 3 seconds at that point and it takes seemingly forever to clear both buffers. (during this period I dream of a 1D) When only the sensor buffer is full you only have to wait about 3/4 second.]

just my experience.

[Vegas Poboy]

I prefer to carry more than one card that way I don't lose all my work @ one shot. I have three Lexar cards and they are
128 x4
256 x12
1gb x40
all of them work great and I'm sticking with this brand my next card will be another 1 gb and thats only because I'm shooting more RAW now. The prices are dropping daily and you can get a 1gb around $250.00 @ www.newegg.com
From what I've read & heard the x12 is a very good product. I was looking into before I got RAW fever. I believe there is a sale this week @ Officemax for the lexar 512mb x12 for around $100.00

[Jim Larson]

I'm looking for a fast compact flash card for my 10d, but read in an earlier post that the lexar WA cards (30x or higher ) are perhaps a waste of money. Is there a speed limit after which the 10d can't keep up?
Would the 12x be sufficient?

thanks. :shock:

I would expect that a 12x would be sufficient. Consider this: Is there ever a time you expect to completely fill the 9 shot buffer? Do you have a USB 2.0 or firewire cardreader, and care if the card takes 5 vs 9 minutes to copy to a PC? (I made those times up)

[defordphoto]

I am of the opinion that the Lexar 12x cards are close to the best you can get for the D60/10D/300D. based on my research a 20x would probably max out the camera to card write speed.

Where does this information come from? What is, and where is it documented the write speed of the 10D? I think it's importanant to know this so we don't overbuy our CFs. We all know that WA isn't supported but where is this 20x speed cap documented?