I have upgraded to a 416xt but when I had a 216xt last year, with a 486 dx2-50
downloads were in the 80 to 90 second range when I had a used a serial port
that had hardware buffering. On a pentium 133 notebook with the same buffered
serial port (a PCMCIA card) the download was 65 to 70 seconds.

Dave Dixon

On Mon, 02 Feb 1998 11:26:28 +1000, vince gardiner wrote:

>Greetings to all happy (or not) 216XT camera owners. I want to ascertain
>the time it takes you people to download your images from the moment the
>image countdown has completed. I know it digitizes the image first, but
>with the windows and the dos version there is apparantly a difference in
>the digitizing times, but it could be just the programs.
>My camera had very erratic download times ranging from 60 odd seconds to
>around 3min 20 secs. My desktop computer is a 486 DX-2 66. The images
>were unbinned. The camera has gone back for investigation.
>In an article in the September S&T the 8 bit 208XT took 25 secs to
>download, the 216XT (16 bit) took 75 secs. (He may have changed
>computers, I don't know).
>Maths, 208XT 336 x 244 pixels = 81984. (81984 x 8) = 655872 bits.
>Assuming an approximate serial speed of 56Kb/s (655872/56000) =
>11.7secs. download. Let's assume an 11.7 sec digitizing time, total 23.4
>secs, almost spot on with the articles stated 25 secs.
>216XT (16 bit) 81984 x 16 = 1311744 bits. (1311744/56000) = 23.4secs.
>Again double for digitising = 46.8 secs. The article stated 75 secs.
>My best time was 61 seconds I think, with the dos Pview.
>Admittedly the computer has housekeepng duties, BUT nearly 20 secs!?
>Hence my question to 216XT owners, please tell me what your download
>times are, along with your computer details, so I'll know what to
>expect.
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Coffs Harbour N.S.W. Australia
>
>

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