faster Compact Flast ==> shorter delay between shots??

[pat_ccf]

I'm wondering whether there is way to reduce the delay between shots. Does the speed of compact flash matter?

What's speed difference between the original canon compact flash and a fast one on the market??

I did some experiments on taking photos in different resolution/compression levels and low res and low quality shots obviously take much shorter time to finish.

What I want is taking high res/quality photos with short delay. Any suggestion? Are those so-called fast CF give significant difference??


Thanks!!



Pat

[Conk]

I don't beleive the CF has much to do with the processing speed. Key word "processor".

[delphinus]

Agree. But processing speed alone won't bring any improvement in write speed. The CF card must also be fast enough to keep up with processor. However I believe that present digicam product is bottlenecked at its processor. That's why S45 and G3 were advertised to be faster in processing data (although it is still using Sandisk-Canon OEM CF card).

Delphin

[rick000]

It depends on what you are going to do with the camera. If you are shooting video clips, or rapid shooting (if you could call it that) either with the rapid shooting mode on your camera or by just taking shot after shot as quick as possible with preview turned off, of course it would. Before the speed is effected by the cf card you must first fill up the memory in the camera which can hold several images.

[Novembers Paul]

pat_ccf wrote:
I'm wondering whether there is way to reduce the delay between shots. Does the speed of compact flash matter?

What's speed difference between the original canon compact flash and a fast one on the market??

I did some experiments on taking photos in different resolution/compression levels and low res and low quality shots obviously take much shorter time to finish.

What I want is taking high res/quality photos with short delay. Any suggestion? Are those so-called fast CF give significant difference??


Thanks!!



Pat

I bought a SanDisk ULTRA 256, and its much faster then the regular CF ive used.

[delphinus]

I'm not too sure about the write speed of the CF card, they only advertised it as 25x or 10x something. Don't really know the meaning. But I'm pretty happy with my s30's buffer memory. It let me take about 5-7 2048x1536 fine setting without writing it to memory first at high speed drive setting. That way, I can practically eliminate the write delay.

Delphin
PS S30