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Is it me, or does image playback--especially going from photo to photo or
the inital zoom-out to "thumbnail" view--work REALLY slowly on the Digital
Rebel? It's actually slower than my Nikon Coolpix 5700, even though the DR I
have has a SanDisk Ultra II card loaded & the CP5700 has an older 12x card
loaded.
Do you other guys notice this? I'm using the latest Wasia hack, could that
be a factor?

LRH

Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:
> Is it me, or does image playback--especially going from photo to photo or
> the inital zoom-out to "thumbnail" view--work REALLY slowly on the Digital
> Rebel? It's actually slower than my Nikon Coolpix 5700, even though the DR I
> have has a SanDisk Ultra II card loaded & the CP5700 has an older 12x card
> loaded.
> Do you other guys notice this? I'm using the latest Wasia hack, could that
> be a factor?

Well now, it depends largely on the file type/size you're capturing to:
a full-size RAW image will naturally take longer to shuffle to/from a
card than a small, high-compression JPGs.

"Larry R Harrison Jr" <> wrote:

> Is it me, or does image playback--especially going from photo to photo or
> the inital zoom-out to "thumbnail" view--work REALLY slowly on the Digital
> Rebel?

It's not you. It's slow. See the CF card test speeds at the site below: the
20D is well over three times faster. (I suspect that the 300D insists on
writing and then reading the file back in for playback display. Sigh.)

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...e.asp?cid=6007

> It's actually slower than my Nikon Coolpix 5700, even though the DR I
> have has a SanDisk Ultra II card loaded & the CP5700 has an older 12x card
> loaded.

It's a lot faster for JPEG. But you really can't shoot JPEG given how good
the RAW is. Sigh.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

Follow-up--I shot today with the DR but I had just received my new SanDisk
Ultra II card (had been using a 24x Lexar) and it does seem noticeably
faster. Saving RAWs seems to go faster too.

But anyway, while the 5700 is still more instaneous with going to thumbnail
view and browsing JPEGs, the difference was nowhere near as noticeable today
with the SanDisk Ultra II. (Earlier I mentioned the DR having the Sandisk
but I may have still been using an older card, I JUST GOT the SanDisk.) I'm
sure the Nikon D70 is still faster, but the DR didn't seem so very slow as
it had before. And I must say--it really saves RAWs so much faster than the
5700 does. RAW is WAY more usable with this camera than the 5700.

LRH

"Larry R Harrison Jr" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Is it me, or does image playback--especially going from photo to photo or
> the inital zoom-out to "thumbnail" view--work REALLY slowly on the Digital
> Rebel? It's actually slower than my Nikon Coolpix 5700, even though the DR
> I have has a SanDisk Ultra II card loaded & the CP5700 has an older 12x
> card loaded.
> Do you other guys notice this? I'm using the latest Wasia hack, could that
> be a factor?
>
> LRH
>
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