SanDisk 32GB Extreme III CF Card announced

[Darren Addy]

http://www.photokina-show.com/0571/sandisk/flashmemorycard/32gb-compactflash/

Nice, but it doesn't make economic sense.
1 x 32GB CF card = $309

4 x 8GB CF card = $140

 

[Dick McGowan]

Yay, let us know when the 64 gig is out...it'll be like Christmas morning.

 

[Tony Perkins]

I think the extra premium price is there (and paid for) for pros who would rather spend more $ than swap out cards 4 times.

 

[Rob Wadsworth]

Personally, I haven't shot more than 90 shots on any given storm yet. But I can see the need for another card after that particular experience. I might get another 4Gb card for the XTi before May of next year.

Shooting RAW really can use up space fast on a great storm - though. With any memory, prices are likely to fall by May. That has been the nature of memory over the last year. Maybe this 32Gb card may drop a few bucks more - too.
Good bet...

 

[Bill Hark]

The highest capacity of anything is usually extremely expensive. The most cost effective and still decent capacity is often one step below the highest capacity.

Bill Hark

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

It's messed up to know there is now a card out there I can fit every single original image file I've kept, going back through 2002......two times over! I mean think about it, 32 gigs on a small compact flash card. Are they writing on atoms now? 7 dvd movies on a compact flash card. Think about watching 7 dvds in a row, and that data all being on a tiny card! It seems impossible. 256,000,000,000 spots for a 1 or a 0? Say a card is 2 x 2 inches. Wouldn't that be 252,982 bits per inch? I have to be missing the hell out of something here.

Hell it'd be more if doing binary rather than just decimal like I did.

 

[Greg Blumberg]

The real question though, is whether or not it's reliable. I imagine that this card won't sell very quickly. I think the main population of photographers would much rather go for multiple cards instead of one big one. If one died compared to the single 32 GB one, I'd be a little bit more relieved.

I have a friend who is looking at getting the 3k RED Scarlet when it comes out this spring. He's looking for some type of storage unit for the RAW data from there. He's trying to decide between CF and a solid-state hard drive. The release of this might help his decision.

Correction: the CF card recording RAW probably isn't the best route.