I recently ordered an E-10 and want to purchase a 256 mb CF card. I've been told the memory bus and internal processing in the E-10 is too slow to take advantage of faster CF cards so there won't be any (or a very small) difference in speed between Ridata and Mr. Flash when used in my (soon to be) new camera. Is there anybody with experience in using different flash cards with the E-10 that can shed some more light?
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Is Ridata worth it?
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Vasa Carapic
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You really came to the right person - because I own an E-10 camera and have tried number of cards on it.
Well without mantioning the cards brand I found that E-10 can transfer the image to a card anuthing between 6/7 seconds to 25 seconds.
With reading an images (looking on CD display from camera) it is even substionaly faster for some cards than the others. Some of them used to drive my crazy how long I had to wait to see an image that I just took.
You can guess which card is the fastest - but I can assure you that there is lot of difference on E-10.
Vasa
[email protected]
Well without mantioning the cards brand I found that E-10 can transfer the image to a card anuthing between 6/7 seconds to 25 seconds.
With reading an images (looking on CD display from camera) it is even substionaly faster for some cards than the others. Some of them used to drive my crazy how long I had to wait to see an image that I just took.
You can guess which card is the fastest - but I can assure you that there is lot of difference on E-10.
Vasa
[email protected]
I recently ordered an E-10 and want to purchase a 256 mb CF card.
I've been told the memory bus and internal processing in the E-10
is too slow to take advantage of faster CF cards so there won't be
any (or a very small) difference in speed between Ridata and Mr.
Flash when used in my (soon to be) new camera. Is there anybody
with experience in using different flash cards with the E-10 that
can shed some more light?
Ask me tomorrow...I ordered a 128mb card from powerinnumbers.com.au and it will hopefully arrive tomorrow, when I will have a go at it in my E-10. Thankyou to Vasa for the wonderful service also, now I can't wait to get it.
Cheers,
Brad.
Cheers,
Brad.
Well without mantioning the cards brand I found that E-10 can
transfer the image to a card anuthing between 6/7 seconds to 25
seconds.
With reading an images (looking on CD display from camera) it is
even substionaly faster for some cards than the others. Some of
them used to drive my crazy how long I had to wait to see an image
that I just took.
You can guess which card is the fastest - but I can assure you that
there is lot of difference on E-10.
Vasa
[email protected]
I recently ordered an E-10 and want to purchase a 256 mb CF card.
I've been told the memory bus and internal processing in the E-10
is too slow to take advantage of faster CF cards so there won't be
any (or a very small) difference in speed between Ridata and Mr.
Flash when used in my (soon to be) new camera. Is there anybody
with experience in using different flash cards with the E-10 that
can shed some more light?
Oliver Lim
Member
Hi Vasa
I order a 128MB card from Powerinnumbers last tuesday. Had a confirmation mail but nothing since. I have send 2 emails requesting for delivery info but have not heard from anyone since. Could you help me check? Order number ABC269053741_00.
Thanks
Oliver
I order a 128MB card from Powerinnumbers last tuesday. Had a confirmation mail but nothing since. I have send 2 emails requesting for delivery info but have not heard from anyone since. Could you help me check? Order number ABC269053741_00.
Thanks
Oliver
Well without mantioning the cards brand I found that E-10 can
transfer the image to a card anuthing between 6/7 seconds to 25
seconds.
With reading an images (looking on CD display from camera) it is
even substionaly faster for some cards than the others. Some of
them used to drive my crazy how long I had to wait to see an image
that I just took.
You can guess which card is the fastest - but I can assure you that
there is lot of difference on E-10.
Vasa
[email protected]
I recently ordered an E-10 and want to purchase a 256 mb CF card.
I've been told the memory bus and internal processing in the E-10
is too slow to take advantage of faster CF cards so there won't be
any (or a very small) difference in speed between Ridata and Mr.
Flash when used in my (soon to be) new camera. Is there anybody
with experience in using different flash cards with the E-10 that
can shed some more light?
Vasa Carapic
Forum Enthusiast
I was sending you e-mails and even today I sent another e-mail. This is to confirm that e-mails are not as realiable as one would like to think. Everything is fine and on it's way.
Please confirm did you receive an e-mail from me this morning, Tuesday.
Vasa
[email protected]
Please confirm did you receive an e-mail from me this morning, Tuesday.
Vasa
[email protected]
I order a 128MB card from Powerinnumbers last tuesday. Had a
confirmation mail but nothing since. I have send 2 emails
requesting for delivery info but have not heard from anyone since.
Could you help me check? Order number ABC269053741_00.
Thanks
Oliver
Well without mantioning the cards brand I found that E-10 can
transfer the image to a card anuthing between 6/7 seconds to 25
seconds.
With reading an images (looking on CD display from camera) it is
even substionaly faster for some cards than the others. Some of
them used to drive my crazy how long I had to wait to see an image
that I just took.
You can guess which card is the fastest - but I can assure you that
there is lot of difference on E-10.
Vasa
[email protected]
I recently ordered an E-10 and want to purchase a 256 mb CF card.
I've been told the memory bus and internal processing in the E-10
is too slow to take advantage of faster CF cards so there won't be
any (or a very small) difference in speed between Ridata and Mr.
Flash when used in my (soon to be) new camera. Is there anybody
with experience in using different flash cards with the E-10 that
can shed some more light?
Roman58527
Well-known member
I purchased a 512 card from powerinnumbers. I was not so muc concerned about the speed, but reliability. I have had trouble with lexar and mr flash in the past. This has been a good card.
Oliver Lim
Member
Hi Vasa
Yes. Recieved your email. Thanks. Yupe, email is also prone to the odd mishaps. Thanks for your response. Can't wait to get the card!
Oliver
Yes. Recieved your email. Thanks. Yupe, email is also prone to the odd mishaps. Thanks for your response. Can't wait to get the card!
Oliver
Vasa
[email protected]
I order a 128MB card from Powerinnumbers last tuesday. Had a
confirmation mail but nothing since. I have send 2 emails
requesting for delivery info but have not heard from anyone since.
Could you help me check? Order number ABC269053741_00.
Thanks
Oliver
Well without mantioning the cards brand I found that E-10 can
transfer the image to a card anuthing between 6/7 seconds to 25
seconds.
With reading an images (looking on CD display from camera) it is
even substionaly faster for some cards than the others. Some of
them used to drive my crazy how long I had to wait to see an image
that I just took.
You can guess which card is the fastest - but I can assure you that
there is lot of difference on E-10.
Vasa
[email protected]
I recently ordered an E-10 and want to purchase a 256 mb CF card.
I've been told the memory bus and internal processing in the E-10
is too slow to take advantage of faster CF cards so there won't be
any (or a very small) difference in speed between Ridata and Mr.
Flash when used in my (soon to be) new camera. Is there anybody
with experience in using different flash cards with the E-10 that
can shed some more light?
G
Gregory T.
Guest
dgrogers,
I would invest my money in memory cards that will give me the best performance no matter what camera I use. If there is not a difference in speed between Mr. Flash and Ridata cards in your camera, I would still purchase the faster card because I am sure that someday you will buy another digital camera that would be able to take advantage of the increase in performance.
Honestly, I can't see how the camera would process both cards at about the same speed considering the claims of the cards (one very slow, one very fast).
Greg
I would invest my money in memory cards that will give me the best performance no matter what camera I use. If there is not a difference in speed between Mr. Flash and Ridata cards in your camera, I would still purchase the faster card because I am sure that someday you will buy another digital camera that would be able to take advantage of the increase in performance.
Honestly, I can't see how the camera would process both cards at about the same speed considering the claims of the cards (one very slow, one very fast).
Greg
I recently ordered an E-10 and want to purchase a 256 mb CF card.
I've been told the memory bus and internal processing in the E-10
is too slow to take advantage of faster CF cards so there won't be
any (or a very small) difference in speed between Ridata and Mr.
Flash when used in my (soon to be) new camera. Is there anybody
with experience in using different flash cards with the E-10 that
can shed some more light?
Okay, my 128mb RiData CF card arrived today, I ordered it from powerinnumbers.com.au last week, a bit of a delay but that doesn't matter, I found Vasa very helpful and he even included a PC-slot CF card adapter for nothing. I've just done some rough tests in my Olympus E-10.
Method: I took a shot in the Olympus Raw Format (.orf) which produces roughly a 7mb file. Camera was set to manual, shutter speed was 1/320 and aperture f2.2. I used an electronic stopwatch (measures to 1/100th), which I started when I pressed the shutter release button and stopped when the red light on the back of the camera stopped flashing, which indicates that the card is being written to. I repeated this 5 times and averaged the results for each card. I tested each card I have.
Results:
Kodak 96mb CF: 20.7 sec
Ridata 128mb CF: 13.7 sec
Sandisk 128mb SM: 13.5 sec
Sandisk 16mb SM: 15 sec
Olympus 8mb SM: 16 sec
(times rounded to the nearest tenth)
Conclusion: The two fastest cards were clearly the Ridata CF and Sandisk 128mb SM, one of the great things about the E-10 is that there are slots for both SM and CF, so I can have them both in together. What is interesting is the difference between the two CF cards, the Ridata is substantially faster than the Kodak, even in what is generally regarded as a "slow" camera, like the E-10. I don't know how the read speeds compare, as I don't have a card reader or any real desire to test them, write speeds are more important to me when I'm out and about. As someone who hails from Australia and drools everytime he reads about the $50 128mb cards available in the USA it is refreshing to see that things are getting cheaper down here as well, for example, in Feb when we bought our E-10 we also purchased the 96mb Kodak CF card for about A$400, last week I paid A$167 (posted) for a 128 Ridata CF card, not only cheaper but A LOT faster as well. Not quite A$1/mb but getting better all the same.
I hope that someone finds this useful. It goes without saying that my tests were not exactly the pinnacle of scientific accuracy but they were real world at least.
Cheers,
Brad.
http://www.pbase.com/clashbrad/galleries
Method: I took a shot in the Olympus Raw Format (.orf) which produces roughly a 7mb file. Camera was set to manual, shutter speed was 1/320 and aperture f2.2. I used an electronic stopwatch (measures to 1/100th), which I started when I pressed the shutter release button and stopped when the red light on the back of the camera stopped flashing, which indicates that the card is being written to. I repeated this 5 times and averaged the results for each card. I tested each card I have.
Results:
Kodak 96mb CF: 20.7 sec
Ridata 128mb CF: 13.7 sec
Sandisk 128mb SM: 13.5 sec
Sandisk 16mb SM: 15 sec
Olympus 8mb SM: 16 sec
(times rounded to the nearest tenth)
Conclusion: The two fastest cards were clearly the Ridata CF and Sandisk 128mb SM, one of the great things about the E-10 is that there are slots for both SM and CF, so I can have them both in together. What is interesting is the difference between the two CF cards, the Ridata is substantially faster than the Kodak, even in what is generally regarded as a "slow" camera, like the E-10. I don't know how the read speeds compare, as I don't have a card reader or any real desire to test them, write speeds are more important to me when I'm out and about. As someone who hails from Australia and drools everytime he reads about the $50 128mb cards available in the USA it is refreshing to see that things are getting cheaper down here as well, for example, in Feb when we bought our E-10 we also purchased the 96mb Kodak CF card for about A$400, last week I paid A$167 (posted) for a 128 Ridata CF card, not only cheaper but A LOT faster as well. Not quite A$1/mb but getting better all the same.
I hope that someone finds this useful. It goes without saying that my tests were not exactly the pinnacle of scientific accuracy but they were real world at least.
Cheers,
Brad.
http://www.pbase.com/clashbrad/galleries
I recently ordered an E-10 and want to purchase a 256 mb CF card.
I've been told the memory bus and internal processing in the E-10
is too slow to take advantage of faster CF cards so there won't be
any (or a very small) difference in speed between Ridata and Mr.
Flash when used in my (soon to be) new camera. Is there anybody
with experience in using different flash cards with the E-10 that
can shed some more light?
Harron K. Appleman
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Not a rigorous test, comparison is against the only other brand of CF card I have on hand (Kingston), timings are via stopwatch averaged over a number of trials in each test...
Read/Write Performance with Win98SE PC (USB 1.0), Antec USB reader, 10 files totalling approx. 20MB of data, caches disabled:
RiData 128 / Kingston 64
Read: 36 sec. / 36 sec.
Write: 27 sec. / 46 sec.
Write Performance in Nikon Coolpix 990, camera locked down, no flash, time from shutter press to disappearance of "Writing to Card" icon on LCD:
With "Fine" mode JPEG, full-size image: 3.5 sec. / 6 sec.
With "Hi" mode TIFF, full-size image: 29 sec. / 48 sec.
The Kingston cards I have do not carry any visible speed rating, but the improvement in write performance afforded by the RiData card is undeniable and palpable. I was pleasantly surprised.
=-= Harron K. Appleman =-=
Read/Write Performance with Win98SE PC (USB 1.0), Antec USB reader, 10 files totalling approx. 20MB of data, caches disabled:
RiData 128 / Kingston 64
Read: 36 sec. / 36 sec.
Write: 27 sec. / 46 sec.
Write Performance in Nikon Coolpix 990, camera locked down, no flash, time from shutter press to disappearance of "Writing to Card" icon on LCD:
With "Fine" mode JPEG, full-size image: 3.5 sec. / 6 sec.
With "Hi" mode TIFF, full-size image: 29 sec. / 48 sec.
The Kingston cards I have do not carry any visible speed rating, but the improvement in write performance afforded by the RiData card is undeniable and palpable. I was pleasantly surprised.
=-= Harron K. Appleman =-=
Vasa Carapic
Forum Enthusiast
This is an interesting result and pretty accurate. It is just important to note that Sandisk CF card is much slower than SM - which confirms in this test as well.
Vasa
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Vasa
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Results:
Kodak 96mb CF: 20.7 sec
Ridata 128mb CF: 13.7 sec
Sandisk 128mb SM: 13.5 sec
Sandisk 16mb SM: 15 sec
Olympus 8mb SM: 16 sec
Cheers,
Brad.
http://www.pbase.com/clashbrad/galleries
Rican Cheung64806
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I agree with that, even Microdrive is fast and cheaper today, I still prefer to have solid CF ram card for important photos.
I purchased a 512 card from powerinnumbers. I was not so muc
concerned about the speed, but reliability. I have had trouble with
lexar and mr flash in the past. This has been a good card.
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