Due to the shortage of storage space when I go for an outing, I got myself a 16GB Apacer SDHC Class 6 Card. it arrived on my doorstep last Wednesday.


The name of the SD card was quite classy. "Professional Photo Series" This card cost me RM217.

Features:

Taken from Apacer Website
Performance

This card is stated as a high speed card. Class 6's minimum write speed would be 6MB/s. I did my own test to see whether or not it can perform what it claims. I copied a 1.2GB video file back and forth. One large file will give a better result than many small files. i did the file copying a few times to ensure that the results would be consistent.

The results:
Write speed: 10.3MB/s
Read speed: 19MB/s

This speed is very impressive I would say. When i was using my previous Nikon proprietary 2GB SD card, my camera's buffer would usually be full after about 20 shots(D40's buffer can contain up to 7 Images). With this Apacer 16GB SDHC card, my buffer didn't drop anywhere below 4 shots!!! Thus, i held onto the shutter button for 200+ shots and ah well, the buffer just would not wanna fill up

Verdict

All in all, the card performed as it should. I didn't bother to play around with the software that was bundled with this card (Why bother when you already have Photoshop CS3 right?). I have yet to take it out on a photo shoot to test it out but it should work fine. Good card with great speed. Just a reminder, you need a SDHC compliant card reader to be able to read it.

orenzai

This post has been edited by orenzai: Jun 14 2008, 05:40 PM

the question is how many RAW shots can be taken continously.

most will not have issues with taking JPEG

16Gb... at the moment I always though 8Gb was the highest...

ya. try taking RAW continuous. see how it perform.

Can burst 6 frames RAW continuously?

my camera only a d40 lar... buffer not really big... buffer can only put 2-3 RAW files...so the buffer fills up instantly..

then i guess whats the point buying a fast sd card right?

i tot a class 6 card can burst till the card full?
i m talking raw burst...

for one reason is coz i burst in jpeg file... and as i stated in the frist post my buffer gets filled up with my nikon 2gb card...so this thingy does the job to NOT fill it up
haha....its my camera that cant do the job... bo pien lor...d40 only mar... when the buffer fills up in RAW, it continues to shoot when theres slot for antoher shot. thus, when it writes faster onto the card, it has free space for another shot of raw burst mar so it means a lil faster RAW burst lor..

BTW can u test 3-4 MB file write read and cut speed? because our JPEG file most likely is tat size.Hmm u tested with 1.2GB file still cannot define the speed accurately. thank you

i M using a d40...
and using my sandisk extreme ducati 4gb....i can burst 2.5fps raw till card full...=)

you pay for what you get bro... sandisk extreme punya price is like so cannot compare lar btw... you mean continuous burst as in the buffer nvr fills up or what?

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Added on June 14, 2008, 10:07 pmok i will try it...gimme a sec

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Added on June 14, 2008, 10:24 pmok i tried it out with RAW and some jpeg files and the write speed was 8.5MB/s in average

This post has been edited by orenzai: Jun 14 2008, 10:24 PM

wow...look at that! 18 years ago, 16GB was a bulky hard disk! and now a card? gosh...im aiming one when coming pc fair...

congratz on ur purchase as well!

does nikon c210 can support this card?

oh...i dont think preconsumer camera processor is fast enough to handle the buffer speed...

if a pns supports sdhc...then this card is not a problem...

orenzai...
i m not sure the buffer full or not...but i can shoot at max burst till the card is full...=)
i tot urs is also class 6 maaa?
so same la...i think...

haha...in 10 years you will see 100gb in an sd card already

as long as your camera states that it supports SDHC cards then it will be able to use this card

lol..this one also can burst till card max... but if the buffer fills up then it wont be 2.5fps already..it will be just continuous shooting... i press my finger down also can shoot until the card pecah bah... but anyway, i tried it last night with RAW and Jpeg. One thing very strange is that the Jpeg shooting is the same speed as the RAW shooting despite the buffer not being full in jpeg mode while the buffer in RAW mode is full. However, in RAW shooting, the first 3 shots that fill up the buffer is fast, faster than jpeg shooting(very wierd). my theory is that when shooting in jpeg, the camera has to read and write at the same time. Thus making it slow down the 2.5fps shooting. Another wierd thing is that even though my d40 and d40x has the same fps, my friends d40x can shoot much faster in jpeg shooting( which i reckon THAT is 2.5fps while mine i not). so i dunno whats the problem here... my image processor is faulty?

d40 and d40x is not the same speed...
d40 is 2.5fps...
d40x can go 3fps...

ar....i didnt know that..thanks for telling

just click search button coz so free

orenzai... this 16GB only available on apacer? i actually opt for sandisk since its reputation is very good plus 200++ for a memory card is very affordable... does it comes with card reader?