Lexar Professional 80X WA Series CompactFlash

[ThomasD]

Does anyone know whether Canon DSLR support the Write Acceleration Technology (WA) of the above memory card. Found out from this site that says it doesn't. EastGear

Any clue??

 

[caseytan]

Canon doesn't support.

http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/wa_cf.html

 

[DaNi3L]

Yes right? But it depends on the body's write speed too. For 300D, it's very much capped at 1.1mb+/s whereas the 20D is 5mb/s currently. And it seems like the lexar 80x able to meet the 20D's write speed. :think:

 

[ThomasD]

Yes right? But it depends on the body's write speed too. For 300D, it's very much capped at 1.1mb+/s whereas the 20D is 5mb/s currently. And it seems like the lexar 80x able to meet the 20D's write speed. :think:

Does that mean I need not go for the 80X for my 20D since it is capped at 5mb/s? 40X should be good enough since it has a write speed of 6mb/s.

 

[DaNi3L]

Does that mean I need not go for the 80X for my 20D since it is capped at 5mb/s? 40X should be good enough since it has a write speed of 6mb/s.

No, it actually makes a difference. For all cards the maximum speed (shown by XXtimes) are 40-50% realistically speaking.

You can read up the difference here.
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-7303