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To: Ron C who wrote (7184)	9/30/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: Ron C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Binx,Aus & Thread: Re: the "White Papers" from d-store. I, unfortunately ,own two (2) Lexar 8MB CF cards and one of my reasons for referencing to the "White Paper" article was the speed of the cards (an earlier post). With my SNDK CF cards, you plug in and go.When I decide to download onto the computer, not a problem.Plug and Play,Store,Transfer,whatever suits my mood. With the Lexar cards,the downloading is more involved,and the speed at which transfer takes place seems longer from subject to flash. If there are any (UNDERCOVER LEXAR) agents out there,could you comment please. Ron

To: Ron C who wrote (7184)	9/30/1999 12:05:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Ron, a key phrase in the Lexar promotion is "UP TO 600%" (my emphasis). Here's why that phrase might be accurate. A low capacity card of, say, 4 mb might be able to have an image written to it 6 times faster than a 256 mb card, where higher capacity may be a trade off for higher write speed. What does that prove? It proves that when you compare apples and oranges you can make all sorts of claims. What it doesn't prove is what would happen if you took a Lexar 32 mb card from current production and compared it, feature by feature, with a SanDisk 32 mb card. If there were any differences in write performance, such differences would likely fall through the crack, given the buffer that most digital cameras have to allow multiple shots before writing to the flash card. In any case, as suggested in earlier comments on this thread, the camera user probably won't see ANY measurable difference, except possibly where the highest resolution image causes some delay. Art