My portable storage device has just packed up and rather than spend more money on another one I thought I'd stock up with CF cards instead, mainly for trips away from home.
I normally use the Sandisk cards but I see you can pick up an 8GB 133X Kingston Elite Pro CF card for £14, as opposed to nearly £40 for a Sandisk Extreme.
Quite a substantial saving when you want perhaps half a dozen or more.
Are they any good, i.e. relliable?
I'm not bothered about the very fastest read/write speeds as long as they're not painfully slow, these seem to be fine according to the specs.
If you're interested, I've just ordered an 8GB one through Amazon.co.uk for £13.90, although it's actually coming via 7dayshop. The price was actually cheaper this way rather than going direct to 7dayshop.com. The postage was free too.
The 8GB cards were only a little more than the 4GB ones.
I don't use them for CF/Images, but do use then for SDHC cards for recording audio. I've a few 4Gb and an 8Gb card and so far they've been fine - one even ended up with an involuntary dunking in a rather slimy green rock pool recently - it survived, the recorder needed a lot more TLC to coax it back to life
I've still got them although, while they still work, I don't use them any longer - I needed something that had bigger storage and faster download speeds and which would use AA cells in the field - ie could last a week or longer without mains power.
I have several Transcend CF (2X 8gig & 2X 16gig) and SDHC (5X 16gig type 6) cards that have been very reliable so far, despite these being a lower rating than the Sandisk CF and SDHC cards I have, they are not noticably different in the camera, but slightly slower when downloading to the PC.
I have 8 no. 8 gig Kingston x133 and none have ever put a foot wrong on the D3. The transcend 4gig aint bad either .
Last time I looked at 7 day it was special offer on the kingstons if you buy more than 1.
In China they work out at about 8 quid each in the electronic stores there .How come we always pay more ?Moan over .
Recommended ?yep!
Did someone mention a cheese sandwich, Justin I have mixture of cards all makes and sizes I’ve never had one fail, even put an old 1 GB microdrive though a 40 degree wash cycle and it still works.
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14 repliesI normally use the Sandisk cards but I see you can pick up an 8GB 133X Kingston Elite Pro CF card for £14, as opposed to nearly £40 for a Sandisk Extreme.
Quite a substantial saving when you want perhaps half a dozen or more.
Are they any good, i.e. relliable?
I'm not bothered about the very fastest read/write speeds as long as they're not painfully slow, these seem to be fine according to the specs.
Any opinions?
I am using the 4GB Kingston Cards with no trouble whatsoever, in fact I am about to order some more. read/ write seems OK...
HTH
Phil
If you're interested, I've just ordered an 8GB one through Amazon.co.uk for £13.90, although it's actually coming via 7dayshop. The price was actually cheaper this way rather than going direct to 7dayshop.com. The postage was free too.
The 8GB cards were only a little more than the 4GB ones.
Incidentally, Is your Flashtrax still going strong?
You took the words right out of my mouth.
In fact I might even have to go for a 32 GB card and have time to make a cheese sandwich to go with the cuppa
Last time I looked at 7 day it was special offer on the kingstons if you buy more than 1.
In China they work out at about 8 quid each in the electronic stores there .How come we always pay more ?Moan over .
Recommended ?yep!