Quote Originally Posted by Anbesol
Before the data is written to the card its written to a buffer built in to the camera, the buffer doesn't fill up till several photo's are already taken. So CF Data write speeds are only relevant when you shoot a burst of some 20+ photo's in 4 seconds (overflowing the data buffer)...

That 16gb is fine, the $5 1gb CF Card at wal-mart is fine.
Thanks for the information. I'm new to digital photography, but I do work in IT and the more I thought about it the more I realized there *had* to be an internal buffer. I just came to the realization that a removable storage media might be fine for single shots where there is time between pictures to write the image to the card, but it wouldn't be able to handle burst mode without an internal cache. However, being new to digital photography I figured that I should verify that point just to make sure that I understand how it works. Thanks for the information!

BTW, that 16GB card cost me $40. Need4Digital.com wanted to charge me $219 for a 4GB card!!! That's when I hung up the phone.

--Tom