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What CF card do YOU use?
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Sandisk Extreme III 2Gb for me. Will prob get a couple more.
Had a Jessops 1Gb card I got with the camera. Was grand for the year I had it. But I didn’t mind letting it go with my camera when I sold it a few weeks back.
Sander.. seriously… having read all the comments on this post you mind should be nowhere near the Transcend cards at this stage… a good memory card is an essential investment… the only reason I have a Transcend card is because I got it for nothing… send me a stamped address envelope and you can have it for free.
I use all Extreme IV cards – 8gb, 4gb and some 2gb.
Anyone using SD cards out there? What do you use? I’m looking at getting some SD cards for my new 1D MkIII.
nfl-fan wrote:
Sander.. seriously… having read all the comments on this post you mind should be nowhere near the Transcend cards at this stage… a good memory card is an essential investment… the only reason I have a Transcend card is because I got it for nothing… send me a stamped address envelope and you can have it for free.
I will probably end up getting sandisk, I was looking at that Extreme IV card and I will probably start myself off with 1 of 2gb or so. Is there any Irish sites I can order from? I don’t really know how to order it in pounds >.>
Mainly Sandisk, various sizes and speeds.
I’ve 3 Kingston ones, the more recent 2 are 266X and every bit as fast as sandisk Extreme III, probably faster. Neither able to keep up with a MIII cannon in “test” mode, but pretty much able to keep up in real life shooting situations.
As to the sizes, that’s a tricky one. I’ve a load of 2g cards, and understand the argument that many cards reduces the risk of image loss if a card goes bad, or if you loose a card. BUT they also increase the risk of loosing a card as you’ve got more of them, and also ncrease the risk of getting them mixed up.
So, I’ve now got 3 8gig cards, and use them a lot.
Part of my logic comes down to the image loss thing. I would not be happy to shoot any given event on just 1 card, as it’s all on one card, so I do shoot over a few cards.That said, I can only fit 500 or so images onto an 8gig card anyway (mad keen raw shooter), so if I’m somewhere I’m going to be shooting a LOT of images in a hurry (2000 image for example), then I’m happy to do that on the big cards as it’ about 3 to 6 cards with the event spread over them.
If I’m shooting something with just 300 to 400 images, I will swap cards in the middle just to split the risk.
If however I was shooting small jpg files, I would then be able to fit 3000 or so images on an 8gig card, and I think that’s going too far.
Basically, I’m swapping cards based on the number of images on them, not the size of the card as I do not accept that the higher capacity cards are any less reliable than the low ones.
This is a bit like the petrol or diesel debate, aint no perfect answers.
Merv.
Sander wrote:
Is there any Irish sites I can order from? I don’t really know how to order it in pounds
Might be worth taking a look at Celbridge based MemoryC.com Any time I’ve ordered from them I had my order the next day!
MemoryC don’t have the Extreme IV sandisk cards though, I was looking in to ordering from Elara, But I’m generally in College the whole day and you need to be home for delivery… so that sucks
i have a 4gig dane elec one i acquired in orlando for 25 dollars never a problem with it touch wod and i have a 1gig fuji one which again is decent and believe it or ot i have a 128mb emergency cf card which i have never used still in wrapper
Yeah, thing is I am in college full time so wouldn’t have time during the week. And you can only pick it up during the week. I just ordered 2 4GB Extreme IV Sandisk cards, I believe it was around 115 euro. I remembered there’s a guy in my class who lives in Dublin 12 so his parents will pick it up for me during the week =)
For what it’s worth I would go with he SanDisk Extreme 3 – the Extreme 4 is not worth the extra money. Lexar’s latest cards are even faster, but I would be happier with a card that has proved to be very reliable. We sell the Extreme 3, 4Gb for ?74.84 inc Vat – Members can have one for ?69 Delivered (Must mention this post!). Like other members I believe that 4Gb is the optimum size (Cheap enough for anyone with a D-SLR, Big enough for most jobs – but not so big as to have all “Your eggs in one basket”).
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