Memory card

[airconvent]

Goto Sim Lim Square to look for it. Try to avoid active f***
Visit www.hardwarezone.com.sg for more quotes

Why? I always thought the prices are amongst the best?
Bought most of my cards from them after checking out the prices at the other shops..

 

[longko]

Why? I always thought the prices are amongst the best?
Bought most of my cards from them after checking out the prices at the other shops..

http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1470758&highlight=active+foto

http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1382233&highlight=active+foto

http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1473634&highlight=active+foto

All I'll tell you is, I did work with them during a IT show a couple years back

 

[alanswan]

I just bought a Kingston 2GB SD card cause it was cheap.
But I'm just wondering, how do we find out the transfer speed of our memory card?
And how fast can our Pentax DSLRs read/write from/to the SD cards?

Any idea? Anyone?

 

[longko]

Any idea? Anyone?

If your kingston card is standard one, it'll read as standard speed. kingston elite pro = 50x & kingstone ultimate = 120x/133x.

K10D should be capable of writing at 20MB/s, someone need to confirm this. As for read speed will depends on your card

 

[alanswan]

If your kingston card is standard one, it'll read as standard speed. kingston elite pro = 50x & kingstone ultimate = 120x/133x.

K10D should be capable of writing at 20MB/s, someone need to confirm this. As for read speed will depends on your card

Anyone knows what the read/write spee dof a standard SD card is?
Thinking if I should keep it with my cam as backup mem, leave it in my PDA to watch animes or leave it in my mini-USB-SD card reader as a thumbdrive... :sweat:

 

[snapnut]

Anyone knows what the read/write spee dof a standard SD card is?
Thinking if I should keep it with my cam as backup mem, leave it in my PDA to watch animes or leave it in my mini-USB-SD card reader as a thumbdrive... :sweat:

http://www.kingston.com/flash/securedigital.asp?id=2
maybe 30X... but the write is very slow
Up to 5MB/sec. read rate
Up to 1.5MB/sec. write rate

 

[NoMoney]

Guys, I had went to SLS and see many memory cards with different pricing for different brands.

May I ask anyone prefer Sandisk or Kingston or Toshiba?

I bought the Kingston elite pro for $19.20 from Best Bargain

 

[longko]

Guys, I had went to SLS and see many memory cards with different pricing for different brands.

May I ask anyone prefer Sandisk or Kingston or Toshiba?

I bought the Kingston elite pro for $19.20 from Best Bargain

I prefer Sandisk then Transcend then Kingston/Tosibaha

 

[NoMoney]

Oic. Thanks man. You are up so early

 

[longko]

Oic. Thanks man. You are up so early

I always wake up around 7.30-8am You also early mah:bsmilie:

 

[pompoman]

Hi guys! Interesting thread, but there is something else I'd like to know:

What is the real writing speed of the K100D? And what card would be matching this speed? I mean, you can always go for Extreme III , but if the camera body itself cannot write that fast, it's a waste of money :nono: ...

I have a Transcend 150x 4Go SD, but I still feel it's a bit slow, cause I'm shooting RAW all the time (not good enough for Jpeg yet! ;p ). Would any other card bring improvements?

 

[slacker]

While i'm using a different camera (K10D), the 2GB X150 Transcend card seems to write pretty fast for my usage. Maybe there is a difference in the write speed between the 2 models but not sure what's the figure like.

 

[snapnut]

Hi guys! Interesting thread, but there is something else I'd like to know:

What is the real writing speed of the K100D? And what card would be matching this speed? I mean, you can always go for Extreme III , but if the camera body itself cannot write that fast, it's a waste of money :nono: ...

I have a Transcend 150x 4Go SD, but I still feel it's a bit slow, cause I'm shooting RAW all the time (not good enough for Jpeg yet! ;p ). Would any other card bring improvements?

I think K100D write speed max out around 20X. I am using a 50X kingston Elite Pro.
5 burts of jpegs at ~3fps than slightly ~1fps after that. Do you get a better speed with your 150X ?

I read a thread that the Transcend 150X 4GB SD has slow write speed.
http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=250094&highlight=transcend

 

[pompoman]

Thanks for your comment, that corroborates what I found elsewhere. I'll answer my question with these links somehow:

http://www.stevesforums.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=119013&forum_id=52

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00IiPT

The more relevant quote says: "The tests I've seen show the K100D seems to "max out" at somewhere between 2 and 3 MB/Second using a fast card like a Sandisk Extreme III (as far as the camera's write speed to media)."

So it means my Transcend 150x is much more than what my camera can achieve! It's then a bottleneck issue... Are you also having comparable rates (it takes about 3+ seconds to write a RAW for me, so I get almost the same)? Any improvements expectable by firmwares?

 

[the mac 13]

I am using the K100D with Kingston Elite Pro cards(512mbx2) and shoot in raw.

Last friday, I covered an event which had a lot of action, drama blah blah going on, and had to do burst mode frequently.

But the camera took ages to clear the buffer! :angry:

Would using SDHC improve the waiting time? Or another brand/card/capacity improve it's writting speed?

Now I know that the K100D's writting speed is not fast, so at lease I know the camera's writting ability, just wanted to see if using a SDHC card or faster card would help.

 

[Vulpix0r]

I am using the K100D with Kingston Elite Pro cards(512mbx2) and shoot in raw.

Last friday, I covered an event which had a lot of action, drama blah blah going on, and had to do burst mode frequently.

But the camera took ages to clear the buffer! :angry:

Would using SDHC improve the waiting time? Or another brand/card/capacity improve it's writting speed?

Now I know that the K100D's writting speed is not fast, so at lease I know the camera's writting ability, just wanted to see if using a SDHC card or faster card would help.

Hell yes, a faster card would help. Don't need to be SDHC, but the write speed will affect how fast the buffer clears. If you got a friend with an Extreme III SD card, try using it. RAW files clear within SECONDS.

 

[the mac 13]

Hell yes, a faster card would help. Don't need to be SDHC, but the write speed will affect how fast the buffer clears. If you got a friend with an Extreme III SD card, try using it. RAW files clear within SECONDS.

With the K100D?

 

[pompoman]

Yeah, within seconds, but HOW MANY? 1000 seconds is still seconds... More seriously, according to what I read, and my experience, I think (but could be wrong) the K100D's writing speed is the bottleneck... Nothing much to do. The Extreme III would an overpriced item compared to the camera... Any experience to confirm or not? :dunno:

 

[istDeS]

Managed to get some data from ephotozine.

The following are write speeds for various quality settings using a Sandisk Extreme III card in K100D.

Quality setting Time taken to write to card
6 megapixel RAW 5.3secs
6 megapixel Jpeg fine 2.8secs
6 megapixel Jpeg normal 1.6secs

The delay between shots with this camera in the single shot mode measured by taking five shots in quick succession and working out the average delay.

Quality setting Shot-to-shot delay
6 megapixel RAW 3.66secs
6 megapixel Jpeg fine 1.25secs
6 megapixel Jpeg normal 1.22secs

Write speeds and the length of the shot-to-shot delay are quite respectable when shooting Jpeg, but not so great when shooting RAW. The camera only appears to have a three shot buffer for RAW images, this means that if you are taking shots in quick succession you have to wait for enough space to clear in the buffer before you can take another.

 

[snapnut]

Managed to get some data from ephotozine.

The following are write speeds for various quality settings using a Sandisk Extreme III card in K100D.

Quality setting Time taken to write to card
6 megapixel RAW 5.3secs
6 megapixel Jpeg fine 2.8secs
6 megapixel Jpeg normal 1.6secs

The delay between shots with this camera in the single shot mode measured by taking five shots in quick succession and working out the average delay.

Quality setting Shot-to-shot delay
6 megapixel RAW 3.66secs
6 megapixel Jpeg fine 1.25secs
6 megapixel Jpeg normal 1.22secs

Write speeds and the length of the shot-to-shot delay are quite respectable when shooting Jpeg, but not so great when shooting RAW. The camera only appears to have a three shot buffer for RAW images, this means that if you are taking shots in quick succession you have to wait for enough space to clear in the buffer before you can take another.

This looks like the same speed I get from my Kingston 50X Elite Pro... if got K100D get this lor... ~$30 for 2GB... cheep cheep
BTW, I also try out a Transcend 66X mini-sd using a SD adaptor. It feels slower than the 50X, I suspect using the SD adaptor slows down the card.