This seems like a decent deal.

Adorama Sandisk 1 GB Compact Flash for $125 - Sandisk $40 rebate = $85

My only concern here is that this is the plain vanilla Sandisk, and I'm worried about read/write speed. Sandisk is a little less than forthcoming about read/write speeds for their regular compact flash cards. They are more than happy to tell me that if I get the Sandisk Extreme that the write speed is 9 MB / second (60x). Mind you the 1 GB Extreme is running $187 at Adorama and there isn't any rebate.

Does anyone have any information on read/write speeds for the regualar Sandisk compact flash cards? With the D70's buffer, I guess write speed isn't quite as important, but the read speed could be a big deal with 1 GB of images to download.

TIA,
Dave

 

I did some testing in a former life on this years ago... I used some SanDisk products but I'm sure that they are faster now.

http://www.sysopt.com/reviews/compactstorage/index.html

Patrick

 

Here are a couple of other resources...I think as the previous poster said, SanDisk is usually slower (in the VFS benchmark higher is better)....I went for a Panasonic 512MB when I got mine....I think Lexar OEMs from Panasonic....They're mostly on SD, but from what I've read, it's pretty much the same for CF


http://stephan.wiedner.cc/tt-card.html
http://www.palminfocenter.com/forum/default.asp (do a search on SanDisk, etc)

 

I just got a blazing fast Sandisk UltraII 1gig compact flash card for my D70 from j&r computer world for $99 shipped. It shipped out today.
Sorry, I don't have the link, but it should be easy to find.

 

If anyone has $10,000 (yes, 10 grand) to drop, you can now buy twelve gig CF cards.

http://www.pretec.com/index2/product/SSD/cheetah80X.htm

 

That's just absurd. I can shoot 160 Raw+Jpg shots with the D70 on my 2gig.

 

Keep your eyes peeled at http://www.bensbargains.net/ for a few days and you will see deals pop up even for high speed cards. (It's easiest just to quickly scan down the photos on the side). For example I saw a sandisk ultra II (60x) card for less than 100 a few days ago. Look back through the last few days of archives too.

 

Scandisk just announced that they are increasing the memory size of their product. Thought I would post this in case anyone is just about to go out a purchas more memory.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0410/04...ghcapcards.asp

 

FWIW - I am using Lexar 40X 256 MB cards for all applications at work. While the 1GB cards are tempting, my reasoning for using 256MB cards is simple. I shoot in RAW mode on a D1X, so I get 31 shots per card. To me, that's like shooting film and I'm less inclined to go overboard taking shots I don't need. But perhaps more importantly - if I have a card fail (and it does happen) - I'd prefer to lose 31 images than a few hundred. In many cases, I can't do a re-shoot. While changing cards is a pain out in the field, I can deal with it better than data loss.

 

Yeah, until we have 50 megapixel cameras, I can't really image the need for a 12 GB card. I've got a 30 GB Nixvue digital wallet that cost me something like $300. It's not that much of an inconvenience to have to pull out the card once in a while and dump it to the Nixvue.

Mark

 

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...?cid=6007-7303

great site for seeing actual speed test comparisons on tons of different cameras...select your camera and see which ones perform the best.

 

For anyone in california or has access to Fry's electronics, in today's ad they have a hitachi 4GB microdrive (7.2MB/sec 48x speed) for $179.99. Not a bad deal..

MiniBoost

 

I am no photographer but newegg.com almost always has the best prices, and they are a very good and legit company. Check out their shipping prices too, many times it is under a buck or even free. they have 1Gb cards for cheap, all brands (about 10 from $60-$90) and some of them say 20mb/s. here is the search results for 1gb cards one there: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...roperty&DEPA=7

 

I have a new 5 MP Panasonic DMC-FZ20 on the way in the mail, but as far as memory goes, I think I'm going to wait for the new Sandisk Extreme III 1 GB card: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/con...id=7-6459-7253

For an SD card, MSRP is going to be $140, but Adorama is quoting a price of $120. Read/write speeds will be phenomenal (~19.5 MB/sec), and the cards are proven to work down to -13 degrees F, which is actually important to me (the next question becomes which batteries will work at those temperatures...).

Looks like these will be available on the market sometime late this month.

 

Chris,

Let me try to save you a little money.

According to dpreview your camera shoots 3 fps for up to 7 images in standard mode or 2 fps for 4 images in fine mode at full resolution. Again according to dpreview each jpeg fine image is just shy of 2 MB and jpeg standard is 850 kb.

3fps x 850 kb = ~2.5 MB / second data rate
2 fps x 2 MB = ~4 MB / second data rate

If we assume there is NO buffer, which there is, but lets assume there isn't, then you need a card capable of 4 MB per second write speed in order to keep up with the camera.

You can wait for an extreme III if you want to, but honestly, I'd be shocked if the difference was noticable. The people that "need" an extreme III are the ones with a 16 MP Canon EOS 1D Mark II shooting 4 fps RAW where each file is over 10 MB. Even then they'd need to be shooting continuously for several seconds because the camera has a massive image buffer.

If it were me, I'd get a regular SanDisk 1 GB card. You can pick those up for $80 or so.

Dave

 

Thanks, Dave. I guess the main thing that grabbed my attention with the Extreme III was the temperature rating; I do on occasion like to take photos in fairly extreme cold. The Extreme III is rated to -13F, which is beyond my usual limits, but I'd like something that would work well down to zero. Of course, I can't find that info for any other SD card, which is why the Extreme III looks attractive. Anyone know where I might find that data? Half of me suspects that every card is fine down to zero or ten below, and Sandisk is overstating the impressiveness of their card being rated to -13. I never even would have thought about the temperature thing if they hadn't brought it up.

 

Hi,

at www.microcenter.com they have the same 1GB SanDisk for $69.99 after instant $5 savings, and $15 manufacturing rebate! Their reg. price is $ 89.99

I own the Fuji FinePix-S2Pro with Nikon Lenses, and this is the only memory compactflash I can use because each TIFF image uses over 14 Meg's! I picked up two of these.

Paul
Host of www.USMiniClub.com