Powershot A610/620 Digital Memory Write Speed

External Since: Jul 28, 2006 Posts: 1

Does anyone know what is the highest speed the Canon powershot
A610/A620 can write to a Secure Digital memory card?

ie, would a 150X SD card be better than a 60X card, or would I just be
wasting my money if the camera can't write at 150X?

Thanks!

External Since: Oct 07, 2005 Posts: 442

On 28 Jul 2006 16:20:21 -0700, aaron.donahue RemoveThis @gmail.com <aaron.donahue RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know what is the highest speed the Canon powershot
> A610/A620 can write to a Secure Digital memory card?
>
> ie, would a 150X SD card be better than a 60X card, or would I just be
> wasting my money if the camera can't write at 150X?

According to http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona620/page5.asp , the
A620 writes at about 3 MB/sec. 1X==150 KB/sec, so the camera can make
full use of 20X cards; faster cards won't buy you additional speed on
the camera.

However, if you use a card reader to transfer images to your computer,
you might get faster downloads with faster cards.

-dms