Sandisk extreme III has 8 more pix's than a Leaxr 300x UDMA - Why??

[Beagletorque]

Seems that you was right in there being 100mb difference

Does it affect the quality of your photos? You do actually take photos....

 

[MarkG]

Agreed. So long as the cards are in good health then it doesn't really matter why.

Both cards meet the requirements of '4GB', so consider the extra 100MB fron SanDisk as a free gift.

 

[gman]

It is because Petro Estakhri, who founded Lexar in 1996, was formerly the Chief Technology Officer for the CIA's DI department (Directorate of Intelligence).

Every card has a small section hardwired with code that kicks in when the card is inserted into a computer. It uses low level code to highly compress and send the data in small packets (so it goes unnoticed) to the nearest CIA sub-station for analysis by their serious crimes and counter-terrorism units.

They realised in 2007 that the sheer volume of incoming data was too much to handle so they reviewed their policies. After extensive field research they noticed something very strange when using microwave scanning technology to view photographers. It became apparent that photographers using Canon equipment had a strange halo above their head, but this could not be seen above those using Nikon cameras. This concluded that photographers using Nikon equipment really were from the darkside and more likely to be a threat and so the hardwired code would only activate if used in a Nikon camera.

 

[chuckles]

It is because Petro Estakhri, who founded Lexar in 1996, was formerly the Chief Technology Officer for the CIA's DI department (Directorate of Intelligence).

Every card has a small section hardwired with code that kicks in when the card is inserted into a computer. It uses low level code to highly compress and send the data in small packets (so it goes unnoticed) to the nearest CIA sub-station for analysis by their serious crimes and counter-terrorism units.

They realised in 2007 that the sheer volume of incoming data was too much to handle so they reviewed their policies. After extensive field research they noticed something very strange when using microwave scanning technology to view photographers. It became apparent that photographers using Canon equipment had a strange halo above their head, but this could not be seen above those using Nikon cameras. This concluded that photographers using Nikon equipment really were from the darkside and more likely to be a threat and so the hardwired code would only activate if used in a Nikon camera.

You been watching Spooks or summat?

 

[gman]

lol, nah just felt like taking the mickey a bit because this is turning into a big discussion over such a small amount of data which we have no control over anyway and which probably costs about 3p or something.

 

[KC Leblanc]

You been watching Spooks or summat?

It's also most as good as the people who reckon a full memory card is heavier then an empty one.

I think it might just a money saving thing, if they put a few less megabytes in each card they can save then up and at the end of the day they'll have enough left over to make a few more cards.

It might even be your card was made at the end of the day, with the megabyte swept up off the floor. They're tiny little buggers, so another possibility is just that the Lexar employees are more butter fingered then the Sandisk guys.