Newbie info on memorysticks

In article ,
says...
I just bought a sony Cybershot DSC-W1 and need to buy a memory stick pro
at 256 MB or bigger.
I have looked at Sony and at Sandisk and Lexar which are cheaper Sony says
transfer rate of 160mbps Sandisk says 15 and 20 MBs . but is much
cheaper. Does the transfer rate make any difference when taking pictures
I/E longer between shots or is just when downloading to computer? Does it
make any difference whe recording MPEGS?
If it doesnt affect picture taking I can live with longer downloading for
the cheaper price.
Is there anything I need to look out for when buying memory sticks. This
is my first digital camera and after spending 300 bucks I dont wnt to
screw up.
Thanks ahead of time for any help.


Testing with every memorystick available has shown no speed
difference with either my Sony F717 or my Sony F828 or my
Sony V1.

Lexar, Sony, Sony memory stick PRO, all seem to take the
same lenght of time to save a file of the same size.

If there is a speed difference it is so miniscule as to be
not noticable.


--
Larry Lynch
Mystic, Ct.

In article ,
says...
I just bought a sony Cybershot DSC-W1 and need to buy a memory stick pro
at 256 MB or bigger.
I have looked at Sony and at Sandisk and Lexar which are cheaper Sony says
transfer rate of 160mbps Sandisk says 15 and 20 MBs . but is much
cheaper. Does the transfer rate make any difference when taking pictures
I/E longer between shots or is just when downloading to computer? Does it
make any difference whe recording MPEGS?
If it doesnt affect picture taking I can live with longer downloading for
the cheaper price.
Is there anything I need to look out for when buying memory sticks. This
is my first digital camera and after spending 300 bucks I dont wnt to
screw up.
Thanks ahead of time for any help.


Testing with every memorystick available has shown no speed
difference with either my Sony F717 or my Sony F828 or my
Sony V1.

Lexar, Sony, Sony memory stick PRO, all seem to take the
same lenght of time to save a file of the same size.

If there is a speed difference it is so miniscule as to be
not noticable.


--
Larry Lynch
Mystic, Ct.

Thanks everyone I ended up buying a Sandisk 512MB Memorystick pro card at
Circuit City. after $20 instant rebate and $10 mailin rebate it const $89.99
before taxes

Without the info from the group I would probbly overpaid to buy a Sony card

Thank you all-Bill


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Thanks everyone I ended up buying a Sandisk 512MB Memorystick pro card at
Circuit City. after $20 instant rebate and $10 mailin rebate it const $89.99
before taxes

Without the info from the group I would probbly overpaid to buy a Sony card

Thank you all-Bill


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I bought 1 Gig Sandisk from Newegg.com for $132. Great price and good
service. Used it in my DSC-V3 and found it to have excellent video
performance.


"Rtavi" wrote in message
...

Thanks everyone I ended up buying a Sandisk 512MB Memorystick pro card at
Circuit City. after $20 instant rebate and $10 mailin rebate it const
$89.99
before taxes

Without the info from the group I would probbly overpaid to buy a Sony
card

Thank you all-Bill


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Version: 6.0.795 / Virus Database: 539 - Release Date: 11/12/2004

I bought 1 Gig Sandisk from Newegg.com for $132. Great price and good
service. Used it in my DSC-V3 and found it to have excellent video
performance.


"Rtavi" wrote in message
...

Thanks everyone I ended up buying a Sandisk 512MB Memorystick pro card at
Circuit City. after $20 instant rebate and $10 mailin rebate it const
$89.99
before taxes

Without the info from the group I would probbly overpaid to buy a Sony
card

Thank you all-Bill


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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:54:51 -0500, "jayjay" wrote:

I bought 1 Gig Sandisk from Newegg.com for $132. Great price and good
service. Used it in my DSC-V3 and found it to have excellent video
performance.

Prices on CF cards (indeed, most FlashRAM media) are going down.
About 3 weeks ago, I bought a 1 Gig 'FlashCard' brand Cf card from
Fry's Electronics for under $50 after rebate.
It works just fine in my DR.

--
Bill Funk
Change "g" to "a"

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:54:51 -0500, "jayjay" wrote:

I bought 1 Gig Sandisk from Newegg.com for $132. Great price and good
service. Used it in my DSC-V3 and found it to have excellent video
performance.

Prices on CF cards (indeed, most FlashRAM media) are going down.
About 3 weeks ago, I bought a 1 Gig 'FlashCard' brand Cf card from
Fry's Electronics for under $50 after rebate.
It works just fine in my DR.

--
Bill Funk
Change "g" to "a"

In article ,
Jer writes:
Holy crap, what happened? did I make a wrong turn into the twilight
zone or something? is that you Rod?

A spammer is posting these to a lot of newsgroups, with followups
set to news.admin.net-abuse.email. The aim is apparently to flood that
group with posts such as yours.

Followups set to news.admin.net-abuse.email.

"Gymmy Bob" wrote in message
...
It depends on the hardware application. The data will only travel as fast
as
the slowest item, your memory or the interface it is plugged in to. Hard
to
tell until you see different. Spend a few more buck to get the faster
ones.
I wouldn't be a captive audience with the Sony either (myself) and I have
herd many negatives about Sony battery life.

He wasn't asking about batteries, he already has the camera, the W1's are
good on batteries anyway.