Originally posted by Adam What cards were you running before?
Note that writing to both slots and the same times slows things down by a factor of 2, so just keep that in mind. The K-1 can unfortunately not write in parallel.
I figured as much, and thought I might use it for emergency backup dupes, or for shooting Raw + for fun. I've been tweaking on the built in JPG settings, trying to get an acceptable result. There are times it would be nice to just use the JPG's when needed fast.
I have a variety of 1gb , 8gb Sandisk cards, from extreme to standard cheapies. The 1GB cards are a joke with the K-1, unless shooting in straight JPG mode. The 8GB sandisk is ok, but a slow old one.
The 32GB cards I have (please, promise not to laugh too hard) are old Centon Class 6 32GB SDHC cards and these are what I've been using in the K-1.
Hey, on the K5 it really didn't matter since I wasn't shooting video or high frame rate spray and pray type photography. I always treat an SD card like a roll of 12 or 24 shot 120mm film. Plan a bit and try to get the shot the first time, and maybe take a backup or two.
Old film habits die hard, and I really hate spending hours doing post, looking at a zillion duplicates in Adobe afterwards, trying to decide which shot is a hair better than the others. So shoot less, and keep more. I dunno, maybe I'm nuts, but it works for me. These Lexar cards will let me play a little more with Pixel Shift and hopefully even with the slower, non-parallel write speeds, be almost as fast as what I am used to with the old Class 6 card in single mode.
That... and the camera buffer is the only speed that really matters for my shooting style anyway, since I'm not shooting frame rates that tax anything. As long as I can chimp reasonably fast when I need to. (BTW: Thanks for the instant 100% zoom setting tip!)
Eric