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Where Toledo-Bend Gallery Photos Are Taken   Equipment Used for Toledo-Bend Gallery Photos   Photo Techniques Used for Toledo-Bend Gallery Photos   BEWARE! Canon Warranty & Dealers   CCD or CMOS Image Sensor Cleaning   Memory Card Speed Comparison   Using Diopters for Close-Ups   Using Extension Tubes for Close-Ups   Zenitar Fisheye Lens  

Memory Cards...
Is there really any difference?

Compact Flash Memory Cards

The short answer is YES!!

I did a quick test in my Canon EOS 20D.

I shot 13 frames at the highest resolution in "rapid fire" mode (5 frames per second). I shot the same scene with each card. After the 13th frame the time to store the images on the card was checked. Just a little timer was used, so the figures are not precise as they would be with a stop watch... but they were not even close to each other - so, for all practical purposes the times do demonstrate the point.

It took the camera 29 seconds to transfer the images to the standard 1GB SanDisk card; it took 12 seconds to transfer the images to the SanDisk Ultra II card. The type II cards with high speed are extremely fast as compared with the standard cards.