memory card speed?

[bballboy30]

I am planning on buying a 1 gig memory card for my drebel. How important is the speed? I might get the sandisk extreme or is it faster than I need? Is it worth paying the extra $$$ for a faster card?

Thanks.
Alex

[napolar]

The camera will not utilize the extra speed of the card. I would suggest the faster card only if you have a seperate card reader and a usb 2.0 slot. The speed of the reader and usb 2 will make the file transfers go much faster

[HJMinard]

The camera will not utilize the extra speed of the card. I would suggest the faster card only if you have a seperate card reader and a usb 2.0 slot. The speed of the reader and usb 2 will make the file transfers go much faster

What napolar said ... but I'd add that a faster card will also be worthwhile if you think there's a decent chance you'll be upgrading to a 20D (or replacement) or 1D in the future.

[jbradc]

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

[cmM]

as mentioned already, the rebel is a slow writer. Faster cards will make a difference, but it won'r be big.

[kb244]

I'd pretty much stick with a sandisk Ultra II. Works best in the rebel it seems for the price, as you dont get that great an improvment with a lexar 80x or Sandisk Extreme III. And if you do ever upgrade the body to the 20D, 1D/1Ds etc. Yer looking at least 4 times the write speed on the already owned card. Oh and jbradc beat me to it on the url to the card testing site. (check out the write speed the 1D Mark2 can do on a Sandisk Ultra II Secure Digital Card)

[MrChad]

Ok, this is about the 4th or 6th thread like this I've scanned on the wonderful "search" feature.

Ok the Sandisk Ultra II seams like a fantastic card. I'm likely going to order a Drebel this week to get the rebate (hopefully) and I was planning on getting a 512mb card but I think I'm going to splurge for me, and go 1gb. Is the performance between the Ultra II and the Lexar 40x noticable? (I could save a few bucks with the 40x) I've seen the numbers on the galbrieth site but figured first hand experience was going to be the factor for me.

[Longwatcher]

On my 1DsMkII the Sandisk Ultra II cards are slightly (as in noticeably) faster then the Lexar 40x cards. Plus I don't fully trust my Lexar cards with WA. I have noticed I have lost some images with the Lexars. I know I lose some images, but I suspect it is only occurring if I fill up the card, sinc eit does not always occur. no similiar results with Sandisk cards. On a drebel or 10D (which I have) there is no noticeable difference with any card 12x or faster and I have never had a problem with the Lexar 12x cards I have used for a couple of years now.

[willy77nilly]

Have a look at the CF Database and decide for yourself.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6425

[Kostyanych]

I'd pretty much stick with a sandisk Ultra II. Works best in the rebel it seems for the price, as you dont get that great an improvment with a lexar 80x or Sandisk Extreme III.

Sounds like Lexar 80x is better than Sandisk Ultra II...
Could you tell me what is the difference...
I am thinking about buying another CF card. But I am not sure which one.
Sandisk Ultra II 1 Gb vs Lexar 80x 1 Gb ?

[jrobert]

Despite others' seemingly sensible claims that most of our cameras are too slow to make use of extra CF card speed, I do find my A70 in continuous mode will take more pictures at 2/sec with a Sandisk Ultra-II (256M) than it will with the original Canon-supplied 16M card - up to 10 frames vs. 3.

-jeff-