4 GB SD cards for istDS/DS2, istDL/DL2

[Adam Maas]

CF Ultra II's are quite fast, for last-generation cards. Not quite up to 
the current max speed.

SD Ultra II's are indeed faster last I checked. But they're current 133x 
cards.

-Adam


Aaron Reynolds wrote:
> I've never shopped by "name", so I don't know what the write speed of an Ultra II translates to.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From:  David Savage <pdml at arach.net.au>
> Subj:  Re: 4 GB SD cards for istDS/DS2, istDL/DL2
> Date:  Tue 2006 Aug 22 7:03 am
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> To:  Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml at pdml.net>
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> At 06:44 PM 22/08/2006, you wrote:
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> 
>>On Aug 22, 2006, at 3:18 AM, David Savage wrote:
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>>>Not if you'd bought $500+ (a 1GB & a 2GB in my case) worth of CF cards
>>>you wouldn't.
>>
>>David -- are those cards fast compared to what's out there currently,
>>or would putting them into your new camera put you at a significant
>>write speed disadvantage?  Considering when you bought them, I'm going
>>to have to guess that they're very slow compared to what's out there
>>now in SD.
> 
> 
> All of them are Sandisk Ultra II's. Are the SD Ultra II's faster?
> 
> 
>>So, to save $100 (the total cost of a fast 1GB card and a fast 2GB SD
>>card if you don't shop around for the best price and get screwed on
>>shipping) you would cripple your camera's write speed, effectively
>>reducing the number of frames you could shoot in a row and how quickly
>>you recover after shooting a burst.  Why would you do that?  Would you
>>buy a $1200 film camera and insist on only putting Gold Max in it?
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> 
> Probably, because I'm illogical.
> 
> 
>>>For a camera maker know for backwards compatibility, IMO they should
>>>have put in a dual memory card slot.
>>
>>Bad for two reasons:
>>
>>1) makes the camera bigger
>>2) cheap users will constantly complain on the internet about how slow
>>their very expensive new camera is.
>>
>>-Aaron
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> 
> The camera (K10D) has already got bigger to fit the SR mechanism.
> 
> I see your point guy's, it's just the Scottish blood in me that hates 
> paying for stuff again and again.
> 
> I guess I'm overruled in this matter so I'll just shut my yap.
> 
> Dave
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