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I have a coolpix 5700 and have used it in RAW mode.
Taking a RAW picture and saving it to the CF card
requires slightly less than 23 seconds.
The CF cards I use are either a Sandisk Ultra II
or an Apacaer Steno Pro.
This gives you an idea about which CF cards are fast enough.
I have a hunch that nominally faster CF card will not run faster on the
5700, but I'll be happy to hear differently.
Note that 23 seconds is much faster than 1 minute.

Phil Schmid


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Hi,

I have a coolpix 5700 that I'm reasonably happy with, but lately I've
been more and more annoyed at the time it takes to write the raw photo
to the compact flash card. I realize I'm writing almost 7 megs worth
of data, but it's taking what feels like a minute per shot (probably
closer to 30 seconds, I'll admit I haven't timed it). I can also only
take about 3 raw photos before I have to wait a few minutes for the
camera to write its buffer to the card.

Is this normal?

I've seen the ads for the high speed cards, 45x!, 32x!, super fast!,
yadda, yadda, yadda, but do the really work? Will the 5700 actually
write the picture to the card faster on these cards? Is this just
marketing? Or do only the newer cameras take advantage of the high
speed cards? I've been lusting after the 8 megapixel models like the
8700, the digital rebel, and the pentax (I forget the model), so I'm
curious if this is an even worse problem on the bigger data files.

Thanks for any suggestions.

My experience mirror PE Schmid's. With a 40x 1GB card, it's less than 30sec.
I
have not tried any 64x+ cards, so I cannot comment there. An assistant's CP
5000 yielded about the same speed with that card. He was astonished at the
quickness. I've read that neither camera can take advantage of the faster
cards, but have seen two which did. There has to be a software limitation
someplace, but it seems to be at, or above 40x. A note, assistant had the
updated firmware for CP5000, but mine is still v1.0.

Just my casual observation,
Hunt - now, if I can just get my battery life up!!!!!!!

Forgot to add CF is Lexar 1GB 40x
Hunt