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which cams or memcards are most accessible? Anonymous
which type of memorycard should i get to make sure it is compatible with as many situations as possible?

i wanna be able to use those photo-kiosks where you bring your memcard and print-on-demand

and also be able to find good value memcards online and on sales

my old camera was a sony and its fucking stick didnt fit anywere, nobody supported it, and nobody sold it

or is that the only stinker? all other cams and memcards are good exept sony?
>> Anonymous
sd
>> Anonymous
all Sony cams use Sony Memory Sticks. Everything else is either SD or CF and I know photo kiosks have readers for all of them, even Sony Memsticks.
>> Anonymous
what about the 8x speed cards and faster? are they worth the prices? and do they actually work that much faster in reality?
>> Anonymous
>>191934

The Sony dSLRS use CF but the A700 has both CF and MS.

The more you knew.

>>191944

Unless you have a $5,000+ camera, it shouldn't matter because your camera buffer will fill up way before your card chokes.

Anything at the SanDisk Ultra II speed level is fine.

But yes, the faster cards _are_ faster when used in a memory card reader to a computer.
>> Anonymous
compact flash faggot
>> Einta !!MWv3ICYobCM
>>191948
Not strictly true.

On an XSi (which I'll talk about since I know it best):
- A "Standard" Class 6 SDHC card gives 30-60 shots at 3.5/second in jpeg before it slows down.
- A Sandisk Extreme III SDHC card gives 80-200 shots at 3.5/second in jpeg before it slows down.
>> Anonymous
>>191948

My Sandisk Ultra II gives me 6~7 shots at 6.5fps (40D) in jpeg/fine before it slows down.
>> Einta !!MWv3ICYobCM
Here's a question:

Why the hell can't I set burst to any given speed, as long as it is lower than maximum? Say, 2fps or 1 or whatever? Alternatively, on a 40D, 3fps or 4/5 etc?
>> Anonymous
>>191978

No one has thought of it yet or there hasn't been any pressure to implement it in the software.
>> Anonymous
>>191972- A Sandisk Extreme III SDHC card gives 80-200 shots at 3.5/second in jpeg before it slows down.

200 JPGs?

That's very impressive considering Canon themselves rate the XSi to 6 RAW and 53 JPG before the buffer is full.

You do get sporadic shots after the buffer fills at like 1 FPS, but that's the point. You are limited by the buffer, not the memory card.
>> Einta !!MWv3ICYobCM
>>191986
The memory card's write speed determines how long the buffer takes to fill, obviously...

If it could write fast enough, the buffer would _never_ fill. The card would, though.
>> Anonymous
>>191991

You don't bypass the buffer, it still goes through it before it's written to the card.
>> Einta !!MWv3ICYobCM
>>191993
...and?

If your card can only be written to at, say, 1MB/second, then it will take ~4-5 seconds per image to write.

The buffer itself is 128MB - ~40 for OS. That gives us 88 megs for images. jpegs once processed (but not yet written to the card) will take 4-5 MB, RAWs (and unprocessed) will take ~15MB.

Ah, fuck it.

If the card can have 3.5 images written to it each second, the buffer will never fill. If it can have 3/second written, it will fill eventually (0.5 images/second build up in buffer until full). If it can only have 1-2 images written/second, it will fill up relatively quickly.

It asymptotes as you approach 3.5 written/second.
>> Anonymous
On my a100 i can shoot continuous 3fps till my battery dies with my CF.
>> Anonymous
memorycard
>> Anonymous
>>191994

Dude, the XSi can only buffer 6 RAW or 53 JPG MAXIMUM, then it chokes on the card regardless of speed because your buffer is full.

You say you're getting 200 JPG at fucking 3.5 FPS, which I find fucking hard to believe when the buffer fills up after 53 JPG then regardless of goddamn card speed, you can only shoot at less than 1 FPS, and NOT 3.5 FPS.

The issue is with the camera buffer NOT the card.
>> Anonymous
>>192025
>the buffer fills up after 53 JPG then regardless of goddamn card speed
This is only true for old cameras that can't shoot and write data from buffer to the card simultaneously.

Otherwise, what>>191994said. If the camera can shoot X images per second and write Y images per second to the card, the buffer will fill at the rate of (X-Y) images per second.
>> Einta !!MWv3ICYobCM
>>192033
Oooh..I forgot about those old monstrosities....

Yeah, buffer is the concern IF shoot/write are not simultaneous. But...y'know...they are!
>> Einta !!MWv3ICYobCM
>>192025
Actually, the XSi can't buffer 53 jpeg.

53 jpeg X 4MB each = 212MB
XSi buffer = 128 MB - ~40MB OS = ~88MB

Difference: 124 MB written in the time it takes to shoot those 53 jpegs.

Time to shoot 53 jpegs = 53/3.5 = 15 seconds

Write speed used in estimates = 124 MB/15 seconds = ~8-9 MB/s.

If you have a faster card than this, you get more than 53 jpegs (assuming they average out to 4 MB each. Mine vary from 2-14MB.)

If you have a slower card than this, you get fewer than 53 jpegs.

It's merely an estimate. Are we clear, now?
>> Anonymous
Not at fucking 3.5 FPS, you're not.

It slows down when the buffer is full.