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MDJAK
13th of December 2004 (Mon), 19:54
I asked in the past whether the 10d (or the 20d) supported the WA technology of the Lexar Cards. I had read that the 10d did not. (I now own the 20d). People on this forum confirmed that Canon did not license it from Lexar and it, the 10d, did not take advantage of it.

So, here's my question. I asked Santa (my wife) for the Sandisk Extreme III card to replace my old 16x Lexar 1gig type II card. It not being available, she got me the Lexar WA Professional 80X card. I just tried it out and it does seem faster than my old Lexar. Should I (she) have waited?

I am not referring to speed of writing to the card, as the camera buffer is large enough that that is not my issue. I'm referring to playback speed, photo to photo, speed of being able to erase from the card. When I had the Nikon D100, all these operations were much quicker, especially erasing.
Deckyon
14th of December 2004 (Tue), 05:58
I use the Lexar 80x WA cards in both my 20D and 1D Mark II. I also have some older 256 MB cards from SanDisk and I find the Lexar cards faster. I notice the biggest difference in the 1D when I switch from the CF card to the SanDisk SD card. The CF is a lot faster, especially clearing the buffer.

I do not have any hard facts or benchmarking results, so take this for what it is worth.
Scottes
14th of December 2004 (Tue), 06:42
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-7303

Imperceptible deifferences between the two.
PacAce
14th of December 2004 (Tue), 06:52
The Image Rescue software that comes with the Lexar CF (download it to PC from CF card before formatting it). It comes in handy for recovery image files when the card somehow gets corrupted or files deleted accidentally. If you already have the IR software, then there's no advantage to having it again.
Deckyon
14th of December 2004 (Tue), 10:55
The Image Rescue software that comes with the Lexar CF (download it to PC from CF card before formatting it). It comes in handy for recovery image files when the card somehow gets corrupted or files deleted accidentally. If you already have the IR software, then there's no advantage to having it again.
This software works for ANY memory card. I have used it on everything from flash drives to MMC to MemStick to CF to SD. Well worth the price of the card.