A Memory Card Torture Test

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."

Comments

Regular gas in a Ferrari?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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.

Re:Regular gas in a Ferrari?

[east coast]

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?

Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Gates R'chmd wgah'nagl fhtagn.

My goodness. Someday you'll see the light... or the darkness as that may be.

Re:Regular gas in a Ferrari?

[Eljas]

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.

19 Pages?

[gfxguy]

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.

Do they give better colors?

[AmIAnAi]

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

Re:Do they give better colors?

[mssymrvn]

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.

Re:Do they give better colors?

[Rob the Bold]

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.

Re:what ads?

[tomstdenis]

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