Another newbee with a newbee question?

[Vic_izoita]

Hey all,
I've being reading and researching here for awhile now but this is my first post.
About a month ago i purchased my 10D and im in haven.. haha.
Right now i have a LEXAR 256mb 40x pro FC and im thinking buying a 512 or 1gb. i've seing some good prices but the speed is like 8x or little higher. Will i see a big difference is read write speed if i get a slower card?
Thanks in advance.
Vic.

[DaveG]

Hey all,
I've being reading and researching here for awhile now but this is my first post.
About a month ago i purchased my 10D and im in haven.. haha.
Right now i have a LEXAR 256mb 40x pro FC and im thinking buying a 512 or 1gb. i've seing some good prices but the speed is like 8x or little higher. Will i see a big difference is read write speed if i get a slower card?
Thanks in advance.
Vic.

I've got two CF cards, both Lexar's and both 512 MB. One is 16X (and must be rare since I've never heard of any more of them) and the other is the 40X.

I really don't see any difference between the cards during real world shooting. I rarely "fire a clip" during a shoot so maybe I'm just not overtaxing the slower card. I do know that the Write Accelerate feature of the Lexar cards is not utilized by the Canon DSLR's so perhaps that's another reason why the cards seem to me similar.

The value to me in the Lexar brand is the quality. I'm sure there's other brands just as good but I'd be very nervous about the dependability of the Brand-X cards. So I'll stay with Lexar, but I'm not impatient at all about getting an 80X card, not even a little.

[ssim]

You will see a large difference in the write speed at 8X vs 40X. Now the real difference is if you are taking bursts of shots. Once you have the buffer filled it will take longer to write to the 8X card. If you are only shooting one or two shots and then stopping for awhile you probably won't notice a degradation of speed unless you hit the preview button and then you won't get your image until it finishes writing. I basing my opinion on the time that it takes to write a CRW file as I shoot predominatly RAW format.

I'm not sure what the price difference is between the between these two but I would suggest you think this through and base in on your shooting habits and not just price.

[dtrayers]

Look HERE (http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6111) for a pretty comprehensive database of CF card speeds.

It's been my experience that the camera is the bottleneck so faster cards make little difference.

Where you do notice the faster cards is in a card reader.

[CoolToolGuy]

Look HERE (http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6111) for a pretty comprehensive database of CF card speeds.

It's been my experience that the camera is the bottleneck so faster cards make little difference.

Where you do notice the faster cards is in a card reader.

At this point in time, it is the camera that is the bottleneck. I think you will see a difference in the camera with the faster cards, but not as much as the card will allow. That is, a 40x card will probably perform better in a 10D than an 8x, but not 5 times faster. The camera companies need to catch up. :wink:

Have Fun
Rick 8)

[Vic_izoita]

Thanks for the info guys. Since i plan shooting RAW i'll just stick with the fast speed cards. thanks again.
Vic

[ebanchs]

As far as I know Canon do not support the write aceleration of these faster cards. Kodak and some Nikons do.