RAW write time really fast on GRD

[Chris P Lee]

I just received my camera (very impressed with its build quality). After sticking in a 1GB, 80x card from Transcend, I found the RAW write to be more like 6-7 secs than the 12-15 secs previously reported. Can anyone offer a good answer? Not that I'm complaining about the speed, of course.

 

[Brian Mosley]

Hi Chris,

maybe you have a newer release? are you able to tell the Firmware revision on your camera?

This is very promising news...

Kind Regards

Brian

I just received my camera (very impressed with its build quality).
After sticking in a 1GB, 80x card from Transcend, I found the RAW
write to be more like 6-7 secs than the 12-15 secs previously
reported. Can anyone offer a good answer? Not that I'm complaining
about the speed, of course.

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[Chris P Lee]

How can I check my firmware version?

 

[kks]

Chris,

I guess you can find the method in the ricoh.com site.
http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/download/firmware/grd/procedure_win.html

I do not own a GR Digital though,..

My ricoh camera is an RR30 (not R3 nor R30 KKS.

How can I check my firmware version?

 

[barm]

on my panasonic pro high speed card i have also raw file writing time about 6-7s. Panasonic card with GRD good performance was reported many times before.

 

[Chris P Lee]

I think my firmware is the latest version 2.20.

I don't know why happened. I changed some settings and now the write time is more like 10sec.

Barm have you noticed the settings do affect write time?

 

[barm]

i haven't noticed any influence of settings to write time. Before, for 9 months i've used san disk extreme III card with the same nominal write speed, but the panasonic works much faster.

 

[jido]

My Panasonic Pro High Speed saves Raw files in 9 to 10 seconds. How do you get 6 to 7s?
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[barm]

there are two panasonics cards one is blue, one is gold. mine is gold, i bought it month ago. I didn't change anything in menu, just pluged new card. RAW 3:2 takes 7s. I've just measured.

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[jido]

The Panasonic Pro Hi Speed card is golden, that is the one I have in 512MB. It takes me 9-10s to have the hand back after taking a 3:2 RAW picture. Sometimes it even takes up to 18s! It seems to depend on the complexity of the picture.

I will do some more experiments, there has to be a setting that affects RAW write times. We have the same camera, the same memory card.
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[barm]

raw3:2
spot af
multi photometry
cont.mode off
img set normal
auto bracket off
image with sound off
date imprint off
white balance daylight (doesnt matter in raw mode)
iso 64 (rarely above 100)
synchro monitor off
auto power off off
no sound
lcd confirm. off
seq no on
shtgs stgs warng. off
enlge photo icon off
color space adobe rgb
af aux light off
digital zoom off

i have 1gb card but it shouldn't make difference

 

[Jonathan Graham]

I have found that the exposure time has a direct relationship to the write time with jpegs. When using long exposures, the camera obviously does additional processing. Perhaps this also has a bearing on the raw processing?
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