OT: Compact Flash cards
Are they all the same?
Kingson 1mb card in my Nikon D70s is playing up, Had to reformat it a couple of times. Hoping it's the card not teh camera. So though I'd get anew card.
Ebuyer are doing Kingston 4mb cards for £10.00 upwards. Lexar and SanDisk likewise. Standard cards and "Ultra" or "Extreme" performance models at much higher price
Any difference? Or the power of marketing? And any recommendation? Ta.
Kingson 1mb card in my Nikon D70s is playing up, Had to reformat it a couple of times. Hoping it's the card not teh camera. So though I'd get anew card.
Ebuyer are doing Kingston 4mb cards for £10.00 upwards. Lexar and SanDisk likewise. Standard cards and "Ultra" or "Extreme" performance models at much higher price
Any difference? Or the power of marketing? And any recommendation? Ta.
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Not an expert on this, but I believe that the difference in price usually reflects the speed at which the cards can record information. This is only an issue if you are firing off shots in rapid succession. For most photographers, the cheaper ones are fine. Experts, please correct me if I got this wrong!0
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careful wrote:Not an expert on this, but I believe that the difference in price usually reflects the speed at which the cards can record information. This is only an issue if you are firing off shots in rapid succession. For most photographers, the cheaper ones are fine. Experts, please correct me if I got this wrong!
10/10, full marks, go to the top of the class. Pro photographers might notice a speed difference but I seriously doubt it. Buy 2 cards and use 1 as a backup or spare. I never use bigger than 8Gb and have many in case 1 goes belly-up.
Don't worry about branding either as they all come from a very few manufacturers and are just badged later.Litespeed Tuscany, Hope/Open Pro, Ultegra, pulling an Extrawheel trailer, often as not.
FCR 4 (I think?)
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read / write speeds only seem to affect me in terms of recording video smoothly with the digi cam. Then again, I do have a camcorder for that.0
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careful wrote:Not an expert on this, but I believe that the difference in price usually reflects the speed at which the cards can record information. This is only an issue if you are firing off shots in rapid succession. For most photographers, the cheaper ones are fine. Experts, please correct me if I got this wrong!
Correct, but also 'faster' cards download to the computer much quicker than basic cards.0 -
Faster cards will clear through the buffer faster. I shoot semi-pro on a Canon1D mkIII and at large images sizes &10 frames a sec it will lag horribly on a cheap card but the delay on an Extreme in barely noticable.
For non high-speed shooting applications (single shot or 1-3 frames p/s) a standard card is fine.0 -
Thanks all. I'm just off to eBUyer. Back in a bit!0