compact flash speed?

[bhess]

I find some that say 12x (lexar), but most don't say anything. Is that Lexar just trying to use a selling point? Is there any real difference between manufacturers?

This is the one I'm interested in.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product_ju...13&dcaid=15890

Thanks

[sam]

i would check with the manufactuer of your camera first. i have heard stories of some brands of mem did not work in some cameras . i have that same brand CF card in my camera( Nikon coolpix 3100) and i have not had any problems
the "x" is the speed of the card (how fast it stores the pic) the card i have does not say the speed on it .

here is a link to the manufactuer
http://www.simpletech.com/upgNav/ind...&ProfileID=330

1X equals 150 kilobytes (KB) per second. The higher the speed rating, the faster your camera will be able to write images to the memory card.

1024 Bytes = 1 KB (kilobyte)

1024 Kilobytes = 1 MB (megabyte)

1024 Megabytes = 1 GB (gigabyte)

[bhess]

The camera I ordered is the Canon A70. I couldn't find anything on the write speed of it. It just says type I.

The largest pic is 1.6mb and the CF card says 3mb per second so I would think that .5 seconds between pics if fine for me. It probably exceds the camera shooting speed any way.

Thanks

http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/a70-60/index.html