Forum: Photography


Subject: xD card question

TwoPynts opened this issue on Apr 21, 2006 ยท 25 posts


TwoPynts posted Tue, 25 April 2006 at 11:36 AM

Thanks Danny. I found this info online: "It appears that the 8080 writes with a maximum of 0.9 MByte/s (sustained) to CF cards. There is no advantage in using CF cards faster than 30x (actually the camera is write-limited to 6x, but we didn't test the write speed with slow CF cards)." "The maximum write speed to xD cards is 0.8 MByte/s (sustained) . Since xD cards are more expensive than CF cards, the only reason to use xD cards is if you want to use the 8080's inbuilt panorama function." So, the main reason to get a faster card would be only for faster file transfer to the computer. For my style of photography, blazing speed is not an issue. I guess that is a good thing considering my pokey camera! ;] I found those 2GB CF cards (with very good read/write speeds) on the Newegg website for under $60 w/shipping. That is probably the route I'll go until I can find confirmation that 4GB CF cards do work on the C-8080. That should since my cam supports FAT32 but I have yet to hear from anyone using that size yet, only in microdrives.

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