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SD to CF adapters

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Posted by David Prichard on October 12, 2008 at 11:49 PM
http://www.delkin.com/products/adapters/sd-to-cf/sd-to-cf.html

Has anybody tried such an adapter?
Posted by John Mumaw on October 13, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Never seen one before.
Are there applications for this aside from downloading images or other files?
If this is just for downloading images, wouldn't another card reader be much cheaper?
Posted by David Bostedo on October 13, 2008 at 10:30 AM
John - I think that the SD card goes completely inside the adapter (despite the picture). So it would let you use SD cards in your devices that only take CF. Which seems pretty useful for someone with multiple cameras that take different card types. I've never seen this before either though.
Posted by David Prichard on October 13, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Apparently the selling point is that SD cards are cheaper than CF. The retailer I use says he has also heard rumours that down the road CF cards are to be phased out in favour of SD. But then what is the photographic industry without rumours? :wink:
Posted by David Bostedo on October 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM
I wouldn't mind CF cards being phased out, as long as there are adapters like the ones you started this post about, Dave. But I doubt they'd be phased out anytime soon. The only reason I can see them being phased out is if there's a technical issue that makes SD cards better (like a size or speed limit on CF that SD doesn't have). While SD is much more popular due to pocket cam sales, CF still has a good sized market.