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Subject: [Leica] M8.2 SD card test results
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:48:38 +0800
References: <052520092334.2603.4A1B2B22000B31C500000A2B223045151403010CD2079C080C03BF9 70A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com> <p0623091bc640f47a0ccf@[10.0.1.199]>

Try the 16GB class 6 Transcend. I just timed mine and I'm averaging  
about 2.6s per file for RAW.

On May 26, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Henning Wulff wrote:

> I also only shoot RAW. The speed differenes are considerable; I  
> only need the RAW file and will gladly give up the B&W jpeg  
> (useless afterwards anyway) for speed.
>
> There are two Sandisk Extreme III cards. One slower, one faster.  
> The Transcend cards are faster than the slower, slower than the  
> faster Sandisk and a lot less expensive than either.
>
> Fastest are the 2Gb 30Mb/sec Sandisk cards. Smaller cards are faster.
>
>
>
>> Dave,
>>
>> I only shoot RAW, if I want B&W, I process as such.  I only use  
>> the Sandisk Extreme III 2 G cards or their 4G SDHC cards, and your  
>> times seem about right for my experience.
>>
>> Gene
>>
>> -------------- Original message from David Keenan  
>> <ausdlk at gmail.com>: --------------
>>
>>
>>>  The SD card write times were so crappy for the supposedly high- 
>>> end Hoodman
>>>  RAW SD card I bought with my M8.2, I decided to buy a variety of  
>>> cards and
>>>  test them.
>>>
>>>  The times shown are only as accurate as my ability to hit the  
>>> Start and Stop
>>>  button on my iPhone stopwatch function when the read/write LED  
>>> on the camera
>>>  first came on and when it stopped. I repeated each test at least  
>>> three times
>>>  to make sure the times were more or less consistent. The time  
>>> recorded is
>>>  last time measured. I formatted the card in camera prior to the  
>>> tests.
>>>
>>>  All cards are 4GB except for the Hoodman which is 8GB.
>>>
>>>  Card RAW RAW+Fine JPG
>>>  ============== ======= ============
>>>  Sandisk Extreme III 3.9 10.8
>>>  Kingston SDHC 4.5 11.5
>>>  Lexar 133x 6.6 14
>>>  Transcend 4.2 11.4
>>>  Hoodman 7.0 15
>>>
> -- 
>
>    *            Henning J. Wulff
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