Extreme III or IV on D200 ???

I am planing to get an extra CF memory.

I intend to use it on D200.

I have Extreme III 4G, today.

Is it worth paying extra and get Extreme IV 4G??
Does it make any difference on the performace??

No theoretical comments, please!
Please comment only from your experiences. Thx!

Here's some information from Rob Galbraith's site to help you decide.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-8197

From what I can gather, you pay a large premium for the newest card technology, and 6 months later, you can get the same for a fraction of the cost. I don't have first hand knowledge of the performance of those specific cards, but I can tell you I bought an Exteme III 2GB last January with a D200 for almost $250 (probably a little on the high side-had worked great) and just bought two highly-rated Ridata 4gb cards for a TOTAL of $140.

Alan

The buffer is so large and so fast on the D200 that it makes CF write speeds virtually meaningless for most photography applications.

I don't know the actual number, but can't the D200 store something like 30+ compressed NEFs in the buffer at 3fps+ before the buffer is filled?

broonsbane

It won't make any meaningful difference to the card write speed on the camera -- the main value in the Extreme IV is getting your data into a computer quickly, if you have the required UDMA card reader. Sandisk's FireWire UDMA reader is $79. Their USB 2 one that they're marketing with these cards is something like $29, but I don't know whether or not it fully supports UDMA.

How quickly? 38MB per second according to Galbraith. But like I say, you'd never know the difference in camera. It just depends on how valuable it is to you to shave about a minute or two for every gigabyte you load into the computer. It's worth it for an event or wedding photographer, probably worth it for a studio photographer, might be worth it for a PJ, but I'm not sure about the rest of us.

ARClark said:

Here's some information from Rob Galbraith's site to help you decide.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-8197

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As the Rob Galbraith tests indicate, it's fractionally faster for writes, but offloading to the computer with the correct reader can save you a lot of time.

I'd lean towards the faster card.
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Whichever is cheaper really. You will notice absolutely zero differences on performance while using it in D200.

What you "MIGHT" notice is when you copy the files off the card using a high speed USB2.0 read or the new firewire reader. That is the only place where you will notice performance differences.

Viper_one said:

I am planing to get an extra CF memory.

I intend to use it on D200.

I have Extreme III 4G, today.

Is it worth paying extra and get Extreme IV 4G??
Does it make any difference on the performace??

No theoretical comments, please!
Please comment only from your experiences. Thx!

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broonsbane said:

The buffer is so large and so fast on the D200 that it makes CF
write speeds virtually meaningless for most photography
applications.

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I cannot tell any difference between my Ultra II and Extreme III cards. I think you are correct. The camera generally does the writing after I am done shooting the series.

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Their price is $94.95, which by itself is good, and then there is a $20 manufacturers rebate on top of that (until Sept. 30th) for a net price of $74.95. That's hard to beat for a 2 gig Extreme III card. I bought two last week.
http://www.adorama.com/IDSCF2GE3.html?searchinfo=sandisk%20extreme&item_no=9
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I should have added that Adorama also has the 4 gig extreme III for $189.95 with a $40 rebate for a net of $149.95.
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I would go for the Ultra II 4GB,...cheaper...

I have a few 2GB Extreme III and I really like it.

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Viper_one said:

I am planing to get an extra CF memory.

I intend to use it on D200.

I have Extreme III 4G, today.

Is it worth paying extra and get Extreme IV 4G??
Does it make any difference on the performace??

No theoretical comments, please!
Please comment only from your experiences. Thx!

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OK, from personal experience, I normally use Ultra II.

I've shot sideline sports: gymnastics, moderately serious martial arts matches, dance, baseball, hockey, etc. I've also done a lot of rapid sequence photography like panoramas, where you're shooting a burst of two or three bracketed exposures, moving the camera to the next position on the pan head, shooting another burst of bracketed exposures, and I've never overrun the raw buffer using the Ultra II.

For a theoretical comment, it would take a sustained throughput of 1.1 seconds per exposure to overrun the Extreme III, vs. 1.4 seconds per exposure for the Ultra, but it's never been an issue for me.

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