memory cards

[widdleyummycookie]

what speed is a scandisk ultraII and is scandisk the best brand like all the camera salesmen say or is lexar just is good. i was thinking of purchasing a 1GB lexar 80x of the net and its cheaper than a 1GB scandisk ultraII

[Nnnnsic]

I don't even think a D70 can write at 80x.

[MATT]

But it may help transfer a full card to PC using a card reader.


The D70 transfer speeds kill me.

Will have to buy a card reader one day

MATT

[birddog114]

But it may help transfer a full card to PC using a card reader.


The D70 transfer speeds kill me.

Will have to buy a card reader one day

MATT

No one use the D70 transfer as you had, MATT! time to buy a proper card reader.
CF 80x, it does not mean will transfer fast in any card reader

[fozzie]

widdleyummycookie,

what speed is a scandisk ultraII and is scandisk the best brand like all the camera salesmen say or is lexar just is good. i was thinking of purchasing a 1GB lexar 80x of the net and its cheaper than a 1GB scandisk ultraII

I would suggest you look at either Astone or Transcend (45x) 1GB.

ta ta for now,

[MATT]

Yeah I will have to get a card reader, Otherwise I may have to send back the D70 cause the port on the cam does not always work. I thought it was the cable but I have tried a few different ones .


Oh Well

MATT

[boxerboy]

No one use the D70 transfer as you had, MATT! time to buy a proper card reader.
CF 80x, it does not mean will transfer fast in any card reader

I just bought a 9-in-1 reader on ebay for $6.50! Even with $10 postage, that's still a pretty good buy.

Welcome to the forum widdleyummiecookie - but I'm not even going to ask why

Cheers
Peter

[gstark]

Matt,

But it may help transfer a full card to PC using a card reader.


The D70 transfer speeds kill me.

Will have to buy a card reader one day

MATT

The card reader is THE way to go. And you certainly don't want to wear out the camera's USB connector's electronics, do you?

Yes, an 80x card might be marginally faster transferring data to a PC using a USB2 reader; using a USB1.1 reader the bottleneck is the interface, anbd the speed of the card is not relevant.

But so what? that is not the time you're really looking for performance from your card. Does it really matter if it takes 25 or 30 seconds to unload the card using a reader? What will you do with that extra 5 seconds? It's not even enought time to wait for your dribble to fire up!

Again, an 80x card will not improve the performance of your camera over a 40x card ... if you have a camera (or anticipate buying one) that can benefit from the card's extra performance, then go for it by all means, but the D70 is not that camera.

[gstark]

Yeah I will have to get a card reader, Otherwise I may have to send back the D70 cause the port on the cam does not always work. I thought it was the cable but I have tried a few different ones .

What transfer mode setting do you have on the camera?

Try changing it to the other setting, and see if that makes a difference.

Or just go and spend 20 lousy bucks and get a reader and be done with it!

[MATT]

I'd say it would be a 20 bux well spent, I'll get there.

Thanks

MATT

My USB connection on camera is playing up

[Nnnnsic]

I'd have to say that you're the first person I've talked to that has actually admitted to using the USB port on the camera for transfers.