Hello Mark, maybe you just need a faster portable drive. I specifically chose my CompactDrive 60gb for speed of downloading cards. I need them back quickly. I can dump a 1gb card to it in a couple of minutes. Faster than the *istD can write them out. Once I got that, 2gb of CF cards is enough for me.
-- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, February 27, 2005, 6:39:09 PM, you wrote: MC> The speed really is the big issue. I can fire off a burst in RAW or JPG, but MC> the down time between bursts is much greater with RAW. I have only 2.5 gigs MC> of cards (2 1 gigs and 2 256) and the X's drive II. But - it takes about 15 MC> minutes to dump a gig on the X's drive, and I would probably burn through MC> the 70 shots per gig on the spare card that quickly. If I were to do more of MC> this a couple of larger microdrives or CF cards would be useful - but I MC> would still need the speed that shooting JPG's give. MC> - MCC MC> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MC> Mark Cassino Photography MC> Kalamazoo, MI MC> www.markcassino.com MC> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MC> ----- Original Message ----- MC> From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MC> To: <[email protected]> MC> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 8:56 PM MC> Subject: Re: colour shift under big lighting >> well, i have 10G total space on my set of CF cards and single Microdrive, >> 12G if i press into service some of my older CF cards. that's close to 900 >> frames in RAW. since i plan to get one of the 6G Microdrives, that would >> make almost 1200 frames. i know one can chew up frames really fast at a >> sporting event, but once you start getting up into that high an amount of >> space, a portable drive unit with 20-40G of disk space with only two or >> three 2G cards makes a lot of sense. >> >> Herb.... >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 12:07 PM >> Subject: Re: colour shift under big lighting >> >> >>> You are right re RAW files. I should of mentioned that I shoot JPG at the >>> swim meets, mostly because I need the speed and to be able to hold lots >>> of images on my CF cards. So, the process I described about locking in >>> the white balance and then applying an adjustment curve in Photoshop is >>> really only germane to shooting JPG's. If you are shooting RAW you have >>> the flexibility when you open the file, so it's not much of an issue. >> >> >>
