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A Memory Card Torture Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kicking-the-tires dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Would you buy a Ferrari and put regular gas into it? I don't think so. So why are most of us buying expensive digital cameras and using cheap memory cards? If you want to find out how much better a high speed memory card is, check out this group test of high capacity compact flash and SD cards."

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  1. Regular gas in a Ferrari? by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 5, Funny
    You can't put regular gas in a Ferrari?

    What's the difference between regular gas and this special stuff? Does that mean when you buy a Ferrari you spend half you life looking for Ferrari-approved filling stations?

    (These are serious questions ...)

    Rich.

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    1. Re:Regular gas in a Ferrari? by east+coast · · Score: 3, Funny

      Probably not in America. Everything at a filling pump is assumed to be of a certain quality over here in the UK.

      Do you know what the octane rating is for gasoline?

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    2. Re:Regular gas in a Ferrari? by Eljas · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you bother to convert all those numbers, why not include SI so that the rest of the siviliced world can understand too? FYI, the offical SI unit of fuel efficiency is firkin of water per furlong.

    3. Re:Regular gas in a Ferrari? by cellocgw · · Score: 1, Funny

      I can drive 800 miles and not leave Texas.
      Try straightening out the steering wheel now and then :-)

      I can drive 800 miles and not leave my cul-de-sac, too....

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    4. Re:Regular gas in a Ferrari? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I can drive 800 miles and not leave my cul-de-sac, too....

      Ya, but your neighbors would probably start to worry about you :)

  2. 19 Pages? by gfxguy · · Score: 5, Funny
    19 Pages? Ay Caramba!

    Hint: skip to page 18 for the conclusions.

    You don't get any more professional than padding your 3 page article to 19 pages with lines like this (from the conclusion):

    You could say we tested a number of things.


    Yeah, you could say that. One of those things was my patience.
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  3. Do they give better colors? by AmIAnAi · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm still waiting for the first review that says a particular card gives warmer colors or cleaner pictures.

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    1. Re:Do they give better colors? by mssymrvn · · Score: 3, Funny

      Only if you purchase my special green marker for $19.99 and write a green line around the edges to prevent electron scattering. Those stray electrons can really show up in photos and you wouldn't want that. You also get higher definition too. Yeah, that's it!

      Ugh.

    2. Re:Do they give better colors? by Rob+the+Bold · · Score: 4, Funny
      I'm still waiting for the first review that says a particular card gives warmer colors or cleaner pictures.

      That's actually determined more by the USB cable you use. Thinner cables are gonna give you better color rendering. Of course if you work in black and white, it doesn't matter. Go ahead and use the cheap stuff. But with color, you don't want multipath blurring your color signals together. And this gets even more important as you shoot multiple frames per second.

      And the same thing goes with your storage media. If you work in high resolution color, you need a RAID. That way, you can spread the put the color streams on different physical media to prevent color-bleed. This is even more critical with digital photography, just a one-bit bleed from one pixel to another can ruin a great photo.

      So, by all means, get a cheap card if you are going analog black-and-white. But you get what you pay for if you are shooting high-res digital color.

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    3. Re:Do they give better colors? by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is Monster Cable making flash cards now?

  4. As often as it happens... by dud83 · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I buy a Ferrari I usually sell it straight away. Then proceed to buy the latest monster setup from Alienware, take a journey around the world, put half of what is left on a high-interest bank account, and donate the other half to Médecins Sans Frontières or the Red Cross.
    So there you have it! :p Straight on topic hehe...

  5. So what's wrong with my camera's recording? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know convenience is the only thing I should worry about but my camera's memory has beautiful saturation, 25 million pixels and proven image stability of over one hundred years; all in a package no bigger than a cassette of Kodachrome. Oh, wait...

  6. Re:what ads? by tomstdenis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is there always someone who posts this comment. No shit, OMG PONIES firefox has ad blockers.

    That doesn't mean putting a single page story on 20 pages is any more enjoyable to read.

    You fucking karmatrolls are fucking annoying. You're like the little 6 yr old trying to get the attention of his parents or something. Shut the fuck up already until you have something insightful to say.

    Tom

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  7. Pfffffft - Girlie camera by slightlyspacey · · Score: 1, Funny

    Expensive??? At $800??? Do you hear me laugh? I laugh at your little girlie toy camera :):). Now if you want a rather nice 39 MP medium format Hasselblad (H2D-39), B&H Video has one in stock right now for a bargain basement price of $29,994.95. I'm going to rush right over and pick one up before they run out.

  8. car analogies by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 2, Funny

    work about as well as a 1980 Pinto