Memory Upgrades

As I will be travelling to Spain on holiday in the very near future, I have been getting my camera and accessories ready. Unfortunately, my Archos AV340 has broken(ish) and I am left without the ability to backup the images from my 1GB Compact flash card. This would limit me to about 400 pictures. Sounds like a lot but that is only 40 pictures per day. Again, sounds like a lot but my Canon EOS 10D could eat through those in about 12 seconds worth of continuous shooting (4 lots of 9 shots at 3 seconds each set). Now I am not saying I am a true Japanese tourist but when I go on holiday I try my best to take a lot of pictures. Remember that every picture taken is a memory that will be used for years to help me remember the holiday. And since I am shooting on digital, I can delete anything that is rubbish so why not go Jap for 10 days??

To get to my solution, I have ordered a 1GB Lexar 80X Professional CompactFlash card. These cards have a 12MB/s Minimum Sustained Write Speed which will help my camera take pictures more quickly, I am sure this feature will be very useful at the rodeo!! Another benefit of these cards comes by way of the included application, Image Rescue 2.0. This is Lexar software that can recover seemingly “lost” or deleted images from memory cards. I will be testing out the speed claims as soon as it arrives and I will post back to tell you about my findings!

You may notice that the title says upgrades implying plural… that would be correct. I have also acquired 512MB DDR ram to upgrade my PC at last. It has been sitting with 512MB RAM for an eternity waiting for the memory. After losing so many UT2004 matches last weekend at a LAN party, I felt I had better get myself back in the game!!! To summarise the issue, I was waiting twice as long as everyone else for the levels to load and by the time I entered the game, they were all kitted with flak canons and rocket launchers!!!