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gns1497
07-17-2007, 02:59 AM
Sandisk Extreme III @ 133x

or

Lexar Professional UDMA @ 300x?

I was told always get Sandisk for Nikon cameras, but 300x vs 133x makes me think twice? Anyone have any experience with them?
kirbinster
07-17-2007, 04:17 AM
My understanding is that it should make no difference. In my Nikon D40 I have used both Sandisk Extreme III and Ultra II and notice zero difference. The camera writes to buffer and then to the card. Check out kenrockwell.com about this, what he says is that you can use the slowest memory card and it will be faster than the camera. Where the speed comes into play is how fast you can dump the pictures from your card to your computer. Again if you are doing it with a cable from the camera a slow card is just as good. If you have a fast card reader then a fast card will make the info fly off the card.
jdepould
07-17-2007, 05:22 AM
My understanding is that it should make no difference. In my Nikon D40 I have used both Sandisk Extreme III and Ultra II and notice zero difference. The camera writes to buffer and then to the card. Check out kenrockwell.com about this, what he says is that you can use the slowest memory card and it will be faster than the camera. Where the speed comes into play is how fast you can dump the pictures from your card to your computer. Again if you are doing it with a cable from the camera a slow card is just as good. If you have a fast card reader then a fast card will make the info fly off the card.

D200 is something of a different animal, write speed is faster and the buffer is MUCH larger. Really any of the "high speed" cards should be good for SLR duty.
kirbinster
07-17-2007, 04:09 PM
D200 is something of a different animal, write speed is faster and the buffer is MUCH larger. Really any of the "high speed" cards should be good for SLR duty.

If the buffer is much larger then doesn't the card speed become even less of an issue?
jdepould
07-17-2007, 04:41 PM
If the buffer is much larger then doesn't the card speed become even less of an issue?

Yes, but I wouldn't use one of the standard blue SanDisk cards.