RussellMc wrote:
> At 100 MBps it takes almost 3 minutes to read a 16 GB card and about
> 11 minutes to read a 64 GB card.

That doesn't sound like a big deal compared to how long it took to capture
those pictures and how long it's going to take to process, document, and
archive them.  It used to take me about 3-5 minutes per picture just to
determine the right color ballance, response curve, scan it, format it the
right way and save it.  Add more time to look up data to archive with it an=
d
to enter that data, and 6 minutes to read a 32 GB card is noise, especially
since it's complete a batch operation I can walk away from and do something
else until it's done.

Now that I have a nice digital camera I expect some of that workflow to be
faster, but 6 minutes for a 32 GB card is still noise.  Let's say I save
pictures as uncompressed raw files.  That's about 25 MB per picture, or 40
per GB, or more than 1200 per 32 GB.  If those 1200 pictures take 6 minutes=
,
that's 3 pictures/second.  That's going to be noise level for the forseeabl=
e
future since other parts of the process require human intervention and
thinking and aren't getting any faster.


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