Is it faster than usb camera?
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Yes. When I tried a usb camera I couldn't use more than 320x240 resolution reliably. I can use up to 720P HD reliably with this.
178206
On the average, no. The advantage of this is ease of use and low profile. Also consider what you're trying to do, you can get motion 'video' from this but it's not super - good enough for the security camera I built - delay is too great to be applicable to most motion needs. It's mainly useful for taking stills whether you make your own handheld camera or put it on a robot. If I were buying again and needed something for motion I'd use a $30 webcam instead but if I just needed stills I'd stick with this.
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Right now, Amazon is offering a free Kingston 2GB Secure Digital Memory Card with the purchase of this camera - is that fast enough, or would you recommend something faster/better?
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Thanks to you all for your response. I guess I will have to live with USB 2.0 speed
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A Sandisk Ultra (15MB/s) writes at about 9-10 so anything faster would be wasted, generally. I tested shooting RAW+JPEG continuous (11-13MB per shot, max 0.9 fps) and got a small delay of 21 instead of 28 shots in 30 sec. Perhaps an Extreme III 20MB/s card would help, if the camera can in fact write any faster. The manual says class 4 for video but my 1st gen EyeFi (2.3MB/s write) keeps up fine. This is just not a camera that needs a fast card. FWIW, for burst shooting, try "low light" mode. min iso 320 and 1/4 res, but does 3 fps jpeg
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I don't believe so. The camera has only one output- the USB thumb drive. Any real time capture from that would likely cost many times the value of the camera.
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I can't comment on the Sandisk but I have the 128GB Lexar in the GoPro 4 Black and seems to run fine for 4k 30fps and 1080p 120fps. No problems so far. However, data transfers over the Lexar USB adapter on USB 3 run @ 58mb/s, so I was expecting a little faster e.g. the advertised 95mb/s. Definitely using USB 3.0 combined with a 550mb/s read/write SSD and i7 so no bottleneck. 58mb/s is fast enough though!
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For me it's definitely worth it because I hate waiting on computers, especially when I've a lot of data to transfer which I often do. If you don't have a lot of data to transfer or if you don't mind waiting a little on computers to do their thing, then save your $24 and go buy a couple of drinks and celebrate your at-easeness in life.USB 3.0 is extremely fast. No, it won't limit the 7200 rpm.
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There is a mini-USB plug in the side of the camera; when plugged into a computer you can read it as external memory and either copy the files to computer memory, or look at them directly from the camera (which is slow on mine).Doug K
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Yes, much faster write. Only important if you are taking bursts of shots. If you have a slower card such as that one, you camera can stop taking photos until the cache is written to the card.
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No. It's response time is fast enough for action photos but not for high speed motion capture.
588409
It's fast enough to edit from for me, but I more photo centric versus video. Having said that I use it strictly as a storage unit.
1221045
Quite unscientific, but an educated guess is about two seconds from press button, take pic, process/view, manually take next picture. Fastest camera I have ever used. Of course you can also use it in the "burst or continuous" mode and take multiple pics in one press. In that mode, it is of course, much faster as you are not displaying each pic until you stop and choose to view. Hope it helps.
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I cant tell you exactly how fast it is, but I can tell you its much faster than USB 2.0.
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Yes it is very fast, and the pictures come out very sharp and clear I have taken some outstanding pictures with my camera. The other thing is you can play them back in slow motion and that just is sharp.
429571
No, or it would be considerably more expensive. 5400RPM / 8MB cache per mfg's Web site. I found it fast enough to please me when backing up data and plugged into a modern USB 3.0 port, but quite a bit slower attached to an older computer that only had USB 2.0 ports.
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Its pretty fast, not in burst setting its about a sec. I never use auto though because ever since watching the videos online its pretty easy making better pictures using the other settings.
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Absolutely, actually Windows 8 has a better support of some of the latest USB 3.0 technologies (UAS), so with the right combination of hardware it might be faster than Windows 7.Thank you