powershot a510 - very slow to read and write to SD

[reemas]

i had the powershot a70 before and sold it and now have a powershot a510.

however after taking photos with the a510 there is a considerably longer gap after i take a photo. sometimes for just one picture i have to wait 5 seconds. may not seem like much but that doesnt leave me enough time to take several pictures as i end up waiting for the black screen to go away.

i'm using a kingston 512mb sd card. any advice?

[Kevin_Jones]

Mine hasn't been that slow unless I am using flash and waiting for the flash to recharge.

There is still a second or two while it writes but it really isnt bad at all. My card is a KingMax 256 60X:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-155-256&depa=0

Just looked up Kingston 512 cards, and according to this page it is much slower than the one I have so that could be your problem 10mbs vs 2 mbs
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-160-024&depa=0.

Hope that helps.

[reemas]

i heard that these cameras (a510s) dont benefit much from high speed cards, so i went with what i had before. (although before it was compact flash).

but the lag times are pretty bad now.

can anyone confirm this? do these cards have a noticeable speed increase from a faster cf card? what puzzles me is that my a70 was fine with a standard CF card.

[agent007]

SD being small, has a 4-bit databus while compact flash has a 16-bit databus. This means, CF has more pins and hence can move around data faster..

[mdude85]

I am thinking about getting the A510 and so got an SD card and put it in one at a local best buy store. I didn't really notice any problems with lag but I wasn't really focusing on that particular feature. The camera I thought was a little bit slow on showing and browsing through menus.

[reemas]

yeah the menus are slower than the a70. but the picture captures a lot slower for me. i'm using kingston 512mb sd cards. it gets annoying pretty quick. sometimes its black for quite some time.

[Tjie Thow]

What card you do recommend to get fast response time?

[Inactive member 23]

I use 256 Transcend SD card .. Its not that slow ..

[bbaltz]

Have you formatted the SD card recently? Over time flash devices' performance slows down if they are not re-formatted periodically.