I find these recent reports on the Extreme III rather interesting.
Earlier reports at Galbraith's site (I think on the 20D) were showing
the Extreme III as only about 10% faster than the Ultra II. Given its
much higher price I didn't think it worthwhile. Apparently the Extreme
III was waiting for a camera that could take advantage of it. Kudos to
the E-300 and E-500; especially since the E-1 didn't break any new
ground in file performance. Of course, some of the other cameras manage
to make ther raw files much smaller and so compete in a different way.
Chuck Norcutt
Roger Key wrote:
> The dpreview review of the E-500 showed a wide difference between differnt
> cards for RAW continuous burst write.
> 512 MB xD 1346 KB/sec
> 4 GB SanDisk Ultra II CF 4883 KB/sec
> 2 GB Lexar Pro 80x CF 5689 KB/sec
> 1 GB SanDisk Extreme III CF 9854 KB/sec
>
> I just bought a 1GB Ultra II myself; half the price of the Extreme III, but
> I almost regret my decision, as RAW write speed on my E-500 seems pretty
> slow.
>
> The Extreme III is expensive, but evidently leaves the other cards in the
> dust for RAW Write speed.
>
> Roger Key
>
>
>
>>From: "M.M. Sparks" <msparks707@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [OM] Re: Best compact flash card
>>Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:24:19 -0500
>>
>>The latest firmware update for my Dimage A2 made a *huge* difference in
>>write speeds for RAW, using a SD Ultra II CF. But I noticed no
>>difference with my older SD 512 card. So the answer may be yes or no
>>depeneding on your camera's ability to take advantage of newer cards.
>>
>>Morgan
>>
>>
>>>>While out and about on black Friday....Best Buy had a decent deal on
>>>>Sandisk 1.0gb CF cards. However, they also had the Sandisk Ultra II
>>>>1.0gb CF card on sale. I thought about getting an Ultra II because they
>>>>seem to be popular these days. Is there a significant different in
>>>>speed?
>
>
>
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