Tyee - as stated from another poster, speed of the card is only relavant to the camera it's being used in.

The WPi physically can NOT process photos fast enough to warrant a "high speed" card. Ie, the processor on the camer is just way too slow. IE IE, you're paying too much for a simple memory card.

Taking moving shots has nothing to do with card speed. That's all shutter speed, processing speed of the camera, etc. The only thing the card does is STORE your photos.

Most low-end cameras do NOT have any, or large memory buffers to temporarily store photos for you. IE, you can't rap off 5 quick photos. Once the buffer is full, the camera barfs the photos from the buffer to the card. Obviously, a faster card would be "faster" that a slower card.

On the other hand, if you had a high-end Canon SLR digital body that can rap off 20 photos in 2 seconds, you would want the highest speed card on the market. You would see a HUGE difference there, as once the buffer is full, it would quickly write those images to the card.

If you truly believe speed is an issue for you with your camera, the Pentax is NOT for you. You should bump up to the SLR's......

MOST point-n-shoot cameras are low end stuff built for the average consumer. You want to start taking *real* photos, move up to a real camera. Ie, SLR and lenses.

Tyee - I just picked up a 22MB/sec 1GB card. My current card is somewhere on the pathetic lines of 2mb/sec, etc.

When the card comes in, I'll do some tests and report back.

Not that it matters to you now that you have a fast card, but maybe it will help others.

I'm really curious now to see if the fast card does or does make any type of difference with this camera.