Can camera write as fast as the card can take?

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ABC wrote:
> People are chasing after faster cards, now up to 20M/s.
> I am just wondering if the camera can use all the speed at all. There
> is no information I can see in the spec about how fast the camera
> writes. e.g. if your camera cannot write faster than 10m/s , then why
> but a 20M/s card?

(a) your USB 2.0 reader may be able to use the increased read speed

(b) your next camera may be able to use the increased write speed

> Can anyone tell me where I can find such spec for the camera? I am
> thinking about a FZ 20, in particular.

When writing movies the FZ20 writes at around 0.5MB/s. Perhaps TIFF or
continuous shooting would be a worse case? I don't think it can use the
faster 9MB/s of cards like the Kingmax Platinum.

My own feeling is to get the fastest cards you can, within a reasonable
price mark up. Perhaps not costing more than 10% than standard?

Cheers,
David

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thanks. Very interesting to see how different cameras write at
different speeds to the same card.


On 23 Dec 2004 09:19:07 -0800, Phil Stripling
<phil_stripling@cieux.zzn.com> wrotd:

>See
>http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007
>for some data comparing cameras and CF cards of varying speeds and
>capacities.


ABC
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