Good Deal on 16GB Sandisk

[Melanie Kern-Favilla]

Hi all -

I was looking to purchase a decent-sized, non-counterfeit SanDisk CompactFlash Card and came across a pretty good deal.

http://www.AbesofMaine.com (I've used them before) has a Sandisk 16GB Compactflash card, orig $99, plus $15 off and if you use LOYALTY10 coupon code, you get an additional $10 off.

Total cost w/shipping: $77.80.

Not bad.

EDIT: Sorry, I failed to mention that this is for an Extreme III card!

Melanie

 

[Greg Campbell]

And people say film is expensive?

Any thoughts as to why CF seems to cost more than every other format?
And is Sandisk that much better? (Reliabilty, speed, etc?)

-Greg

 

[David Drummond]

My chase partner and I have been using Transcend cards and very happy with them. You can pick up a 16gig card at newegg.com for $36

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208337

 

[Melanie Kern-Favilla]

And people say film is expensive?

Any thoughts as to why CF seems to cost more than every other format?
And is Sandisk that much better? (Reliabilty, speed, etc?)

-Greg

Greg, for me, SanDisk is all about the reliability and speed. I started out using the Transcend cards (they are much less expensive), but after a month my files became corrupted. I switched to Sandisk and I've never had a problem. Also, the Extreme III (and IV!) write a min of 30mb p/s and that's quite a bit faster than the Transcend (from my limited experience with it). But if speed is not an issue for you, then the transcend should be fine.

Melanie

 

[Jim Saueressig]

My chase partner and I have been using Transcend cards and very happy with them. You can pick up a 16gig card at newegg.com for $36

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208337

I use Transcend (class 6) for my SDHC as well and they have worked great. I have heard less complaints about them than many of the top name brands.

 

[David Drummond]

Yeah we both bought 2 of Transcend 133x card (2 gig). I haven't lost a file yet, nor have I managed to fill one of them up completely. Albeit I dump them daily to a computer.

My chase partner showed me a comparison chart of speeds of various cards and sized. The one I linked is only 5mb/sec slower than the one Melanie is talking about. I guess if you had a high-end enough camera it might make a difference. I just don't see double the cost for that small increase. Now if it were 300x, ....oh yeaaaahh!

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

And people say film is expensive?

I can get about a thousand RAW shots on a 16gig card -- or about 28 rolls of film. Even if I threw each card away after each shoot, I'm doing better than I did when I paid for film.

 

[Greg Campbell]

I can get about a thousand RAW shots on a 16gig card -- or about 28 rolls of film. Even if I threw each card away after each shoot, I'm doing better than I did when I paid for film.

Yea, yea...

Well, I guess some people need thousands of shots....

Scrounging around e-bay and various photo forums, I usually manage to find 220 slide (24 exp at 6x6) film for somewhere around $2. I just started doing my own E6, and I think the costs will work out to another $1.50, maybe a little less. DIY development is a bit of a PITA, but it's worth it; I really enjoy shooting my Bronicasaur. Shooting a few rolls a day is a trivial expense compared to all the other costs incurred while on vacation.

Of course a DSLR, with a huge card!, comes in mighty handy blazing away at day/twilight lightning, meteors, etc.

Veering back on topic: I've got two Sandisk Ultra IIs for my lowly Drebel. Neither has caused any problems.

-Greg

 

[cdcollura]

These things are insane how far the've come...

I picked up an 8GB flash drive (Corsair USB) for $19 at Tiger Direct.

You can actually fit almost 4 DVD's on these 16 GB drives drive.

For you ol'e schoolers, this is over 22,000 720 K (3.5") floppy disks.

Scary...

 

[Skip Talbot]

These things are insane how far the've come...

Scary...

Yeah, but it could still be better. I wish there were 64GB memory cards out because then my next camcorder purchase would be memory card based instead of HDD and I wouldn't have to worry about the abuse that HDD might take. I can't record an entire chase on a single 32GB memory card like I can a 120GB HDD.

 

[cedwards]

I have used several brands and never have had any data loss. This includes a Lexar 1GB 80X that went through the washer and dryer.

 

[Bobby Lang]

Lol, I've had two Sandisk flash drives (a 4gb & 8gb) stop working. Both had the partition corrupted or deleted. When I get my dslr camera, I think I'm going to go with Transcend memory cards.

On a side note, I know it's not compact flash memory but I read about a new SD memory card standard announced at this years CES. The upcoming standard SDXC is supposed to allow sizes to reach 2 terabytes & read and write speeds up to 104 megabytes/second. Link

 

[Cris Schroeder]

I've been lucky with all my memory cards so far...no corrupted files or other failures. I use Lexar in my XTi (2 GB Professional 133x and a 2 GB Platinum II 80x), and I can't tell any difference between them. I have a Sandisk 4 GB Extreme III SDHC card in my G9 which has worked flawlessly for the last year. I wanted the read/write speed as I use the video modes quite a bit.

I also have a generic $12 SD card in my wife's Powershot that still works fine, so I probably overpaid for my "good" cards, considering what I do with them.

 

[Bob Gould]

How do you tell a "counterfeit" card in a web purchase? Other than the "if it is to good to be true it probably is" rule.

 

[Tyler Burg]

Dang, I don't even really need my 4gb card! I cant fit about 1400 jpegs on it, usually I upload between 30-200 photos per account, so I don't have to delete any off my camera for a couple months. I guess if you used RAW it would make a big difference, but I still am not very good a post processing, and don't completely understand the benefits of shooting RAW. But my $15 4Gb card, ill use for a while.

Has anyone ever had troubles with their card? like losing all the photos? I think I need to buy a back up and put it in my camera bag.