CARD QUALITY
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What do you mean by quality?
Take a look at this page to see what they are like performance wise: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-10043-10255
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Mmmmm could be a risk of it being a fake thou - there is that to take in to consideration... Not saying that it is before anyone starts to
... I did say "could be"...........:razz:
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Transcend are just as reliable as Sandisk or Lexar, your just not paying the extra for the name.
They may not be as well know over here, but reading the USA forums I would say they are as popular as Sandisk, and more than Lexar over there.
SanDisk 16GB Extreme CF Compact Flash Cards 60MBS £63.10
Lexar 16GB 300X Professional UDMA CompactFlash £69.49
Transcend 16 GB 400x CompactFlash Memory Card £44.18
All prices from Amazon.UK
My Transcend 16GB 600x has been faultless so far and a lot less money the the equivalent Sandisk or Lexar
They may not be as well know over here, but reading the USA forums I would say they are as popular as Sandisk, and more than Lexar over there.
SanDisk 16GB Extreme CF Compact Flash Cards 60MBS £63.10
Lexar 16GB 300X Professional UDMA CompactFlash £69.49
Transcend 16 GB 400x CompactFlash Memory Card £44.18
All prices from Amazon.UK
My Transcend 16GB 600x has been faultless so far and a lot less money the the equivalent Sandisk or Lexar
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With bigger card sizes, do you not run the risk of having "all your eggs.........":shrug:
I've got 2 8gb Sandisk & find them more than adequate for my humble needs.
If you are a pro or shooting weddings, do you use many seperate smaller cards?
Mick
I've got 2 8gb Sandisk & find them more than adequate for my humble needs.
If you are a pro or shooting weddings, do you use many seperate smaller cards?
Mick
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As I've posted before on this, I can remember when folk said it was safer to use :
2 X 512mb over a 1GB card
then
2 X 1Gb over a 2GB card
then
2x 2GB over a 4GB card
then
2 x 4GB over a 8GB card
then
2 x 8GB over a 16GB card
I think you get the drift, if we all stuck to the wisdom of the day we should now be using 64 X 512mb cards and not a 32GB card, as you don't want all your eggs.........
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Don't use a memory card as a long term storage device. After every photography session transfer them to your computer, backing them using your preferred method, whack the memory card back in the camera and format the memory and start again.
If after following the above process the memory card starts to show corruption some time down the line, you'll likely lose a small amount of data, but you'll know it's time to get another card.
I don't think having two would solve the problem of sudden data loss anyway, you'll still loose half the data anyway. If you are really worried about data loss, get something like a D7000 where it'll take two SD cards, and you can do simultaneous writes to both cards.
If after following the above process the memory card starts to show corruption some time down the line, you'll likely lose a small amount of data, but you'll know it's time to get another card.
I don't think having two would solve the problem of sudden data loss anyway, you'll still loose half the data anyway. If you are really worried about data loss, get something like a D7000 where it'll take two SD cards, and you can do simultaneous writes to both cards.
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I think the '2x' is the key not the memory size - regardless of how much memory size you need overall, its always good to have more than one card in case your card fails when out for the day.