Recommend me a Compact Flash Memory Card

Hi, for my upcoming trip to China I'm expecting to shoot about 200 to

350 RAW- files. What Compact Flash Memory Card can hold that many RAW

files. Remember I'll be shooting RAW ONLY with a 6.3 MP EOS 10D. Card

read/ write speed is not an issue for me.

Kingston Elite 4 gig.

 

I get coupon codes from bensbargains.net for the Dell store, and usually end up paying somewhere areound $470 for the 4 gig card.

<< and usually end up paying somewhere areound $470 for the 4 gig card. >>

 

Instead of buying 4 1GB cards for $70 each and saving $190?

I own 2 512MB cards, they are fast cards about 72x or 80x. I then got a Eposn P-2000 to temp store the data till I got home. My suggestion is that you also get 2 fast cards, I am not up on EOX 10D so I cannot recomment a speed, so that you can shoot multipule pictures quickly, and a mass storage device. I read about a fellow that uses only 512 MB cards. After the card is full, he burns the pictures on a portable CD player. Have a nice trip!

The Kingston Pro Elite cards get consistently high marks Leon and the savings over say, a

Sandisk card will more than offset your year's subscription to Photo.net. ;-)

I paid $99 each for a 2GB Kingston card, and a 2GB PQI card - each on sale at Frys. I can't tell the difference between them in use.

I'd suggest buying either a few 512 or 1 gig cards as opposed to buying 1 card that can hold all the images, so that you don't have all of your eggs in one basket (all of your images on one card). If you have all your images on one card and something goes wrong with that card, you'll feel really sick. Of course, if you do want to have all your images on one card, you can always do a periodic download of the images to your laptop or wherever, but IMO, it would be wiser to have many cards, and when one is full, replace it and keep shooting as oppossed to having one big card and taking a chance that you may incur a mishap. Does what I'm saying make sense?

I have a 2GB card branded "ATP", $99 at Fry's, 60x, "lifetime warranty". My D70s tells me I can get 371 RAW files on it. I've had it (and the D70s) for a few weeks, light daily use, no trouble with it.

The D70s compresses its raw files, however - if the Canon doesn't do this (?), you may only get about half that number of shots.

Sorry for the typo...

 

You get the 4 gig Kingston around $170 at the Dell store, so you save over rob's $70 1 gig cards or Doug's $99 2 gig cards...

Gregg - ah, we can't have a memory card discussion without someone chiming in with the "all of your eggs in one basket" argument.

 

The problem is that you are confusing the eggs with the basket.

 

It's important to remember that compact cards don't function alone, in a vacuum. They're part of a system, card, camera, and (probably) reader.

 

The biggest failure mode of the system is mechanical damage to the pins of the camera or the reader. To reduce the risk of this damage, you minimize the number of times you have to insert or remove a card, by using.... larger cards.

 

The second biggest failure mode is electrostatic discharge damage to camera, card, or reader. The only time the camera or card is vulnerable to that is during insertion or removal. The solution, again, is less insertions, which takes us back to... larger cards.

 

Data corruption in cards that isn't due to ESD is a very rare event. You'll lose less images in the long run by using larger cards.