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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."
You'd think cards developed to the same spec would have equal performance. Is that really not the case with SD or others? Interesting article.
Stiny! Get me a danish!
When I bought my camera 6 months ago, I searched and searched, and found there was simply no way to know what performance to expect from a given card / camera combination. Labelings like "32x" apparently don't mean a whole lot, the same card doesn't work equally well in all cameras, packaging and labeling are not changed when the card is re-engineered, and there are so many different cards available that no benchmark table is even nearly complete - often there's no overlap at all between the cards used in a benchmark and the cards available from a chosen vendor.
"So why are most of us buying expensive digital cameras and using cheap memory cards?"
Because if your camera can write 1MB/s, it doesn't matter if your memory card has theoretical write speed of 1MB/s, 2MB/s, 4MB/s or 10MB/s. You will get 1MB/s of write performance in any case.
It's interesting that they tested memory cards with Canon EOS 1D Mark II camera that costs $3500. I wonder how the results would look if they would've used $350 camera instead.
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Hey, how about this editors...
I'll pay for a slashdot account once you
1. Stop allowing "anonymous" people to post to ad ridden review sites
2. Stop posting stories about ad ridden review sites that split the story to 30 pages
3. Stop even thinking about talking about ad ridden review sites
4. Mirror the occasional real story so we can actually read it the same day the story is posted.
It's called "not selling out". If I give you money I want something of value in return. If I wanted a barrage of retarded stories I'd head to Fark. At least they don't pretend to be a "news" website.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.