Richardphotos opened this issue on Dec 27, 2008 · 5 posts
Richardphotos posted Sat, 27 December 2008 at 2:04 PM
Fryes electronics has 8 gig Kingston compact flash cards for $17.95, if any of you live near one. I bought one yesterday for $34.95 and then seen today's paper and I returned the one I bought and bought 3
Meowgli posted Sat, 27 December 2008 at 7:05 PM
some smart shopping =)
what's your experience like with 8gig cards? I'm hesitant to go over 4gb for fear of filling a card and losing everything as I've heard they're more susceptible to corruption.... could just be one of those things you hear which kind of fades out over time as manufacturers iron out teething problems..
TomDart posted Sat, 27 December 2008 at 8:28 PM
I don't know and cannot help there, Meowgli. However, I have not gone over 2 gig on my cards finding that quite acceptable. I carry more than one card along. I don't plan on using the card as the permanent storage place for images and as you mentioned, don't want to loose images should the card go bad for some reason.
8 gig? I would be overwhelmed with trying to edit images from a card that large.
Stil, Richard, if that is a good reliable card it looks like you scored the bargain. : )
Richardphotos posted Sat, 27 December 2008 at 9:49 PM
with my new camera 2 gigs would be filled up in no time because I want to try Canon's raw format, versus the standard raw if that is possible. seems like each company has they own version of raw
Meowgli posted Tue, 30 December 2008 at 8:16 AM
that's a very good point.. now I come to think of it, when I was using a 512mb card it could only hold about 45 Canon raw files... with my current 4 gig one I can squeeze nearly 400 on there, or over 1200 top-quality jpegs..... I guess from my point of view an 8gig one would be useful if I decided to start shooting raw+jpeg together but I've tried that before and it just led to extra hours sifting through.... fair enough you can't view the raw files on a computer which doesn't have the format supported but nowadays I shoot raw exclusively and just use bridge to browse...
but yeah, looks like a good deal ;)