Hi all,
I’ve just got off the fence (I've been up there a good few years!) and bought an LX3. It’s my first digital camera so I’ve got a bit of catching up to do.
I’ll need a card and I’m trying to figure out how much write speed I need to buy.
There’s a lot of performance information here: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/LX3/LX3A6.HTM the most relevant seems to be the Cycle Time table. This states that they were achieved with a SanDisk Extreme III. (20 or 30MB/s, I don’t know). Either way, it seems from my maths (below, please pick holes!) that the max write speed of the camera is short of 20MB/s.
So is it pointless buying a card with a write speed of more than 15MB/s for this camera, or have I missed something? I appreciate the speed to transfer files to a laptop will be affected too, but I’m more concerned with getting the best out of the camera without wasting money on overly fast cards.
Thanks for any help and advice!
I’ve just got off the fence (I've been up there a good few years!) and bought an LX3. It’s my first digital camera so I’ve got a bit of catching up to do.
I’ll need a card and I’m trying to figure out how much write speed I need to buy.
There’s a lot of performance information here: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/LX3/LX3A6.HTM the most relevant seems to be the Cycle Time table. This states that they were achieved with a SanDisk Extreme III. (20 or 30MB/s, I don’t know). Either way, it seems from my maths (below, please pick holes!) that the max write speed of the camera is short of 20MB/s.
So is it pointless buying a card with a write speed of more than 15MB/s for this camera, or have I missed something? I appreciate the speed to transfer files to a laptop will be affected too, but I’m more concerned with getting the best out of the camera without wasting money on overly fast cards.
Thanks for any help and advice!