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Which CF Card for Canon 1D MkIV or other fast cameras
Angus Mordant, Student/Intern
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Sydney | NSW Australia | Australia | Posted: 12:20 PM on 04.12.11 |
->> I was just wondering what CF cards people are using, I currently use a mix of old Ultra II, old Extreme III and the newer 60MB/s Extreme Sandisk cards and was wondering if there is much of a noticable difference shooting on the 90MB/s cards that I think they call Extreme Pro.
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Anthony Phelps, Photographer
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David Rossiter, Photographer
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Lethbridge | AB | Canada | Posted: 7:59 PM on 04.12.11 |
| ->> Lexar 32GB Professional 400x have been working well for me ... I use CF card as RAW and SD as Jpeg recording separately. Video clips also end up on the SD cards in this setup. |
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Steve Ueckert, Photographer
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Houston | TX | | Posted: 9:07 PM on 04.12.11 |
->> I use Transcend 600X UDMA 8 GB cards in my D3 & D700, the buffers seem to clear quicker than with the older, 300X, cards I have including the Ducati cards.
I prefer 8 GB cards, actually I have no problems with my older 4 GB cards other than write speed, as I am clearly old school and prefer not to put all my eggs in one basket.
No problems with the Transcend 600X cards, so far. |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 10:13 PM on 04.12.11 |
| ->> I have been using Transcend 400x 32gb cards with my D3, D3s since Max Simbron recommended them and I have been very pleased |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 6:47 AM on 04.13.11 |
->> All good recommendations...the SanDisk Extreme is a dog in Nikons for some reason, it seems to work fine in Canons:
sportsphotoguy.com/best-cf-cards-for-nikon-d300/ |
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Stephen Brashear, Photographer, Assistant
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 8:55 AM on 04.13.11 |
->> I've been pleasantly pleased by the Delkin CombatFlash cards, to which I am in the process of migrating. I also use Sandisk Extreme Pro cards, which work well. One of the drawbacks of Sandisk (not so sure about Lexar) is that they are the most counterfeited cards out there. I've also used Transcend cards, but do so no longer as the faster ones are MLC construction. Multi Level Cell construction is cheaper but less reliable and rugged that cards with SLC (single level construction), which is why Transcend and other card makers can make cards with similar to speeds and capacities to those of Lexar and Sandisk and charge considerably less. While I've heard very few complaints regarding Transcend, I am a bit leery of their MLC construction. I know many people that swear by them. My comfort level isn't as high. That said regarding construction, it appears that Duracell (actually Dane Elec) has put out fast high capacity SLC memory cards for very little (http://www.duracellflash.com/compactflash.htm). However, I have read that the write speeds may be suspect.
I've been using high capacity cards for four years and never had any issues. Knock on wood. Since I shoot RAW, using smaller cards doesn't make sense on camera with such large files. |
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Colin Heyburn, Photographer
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ARMAGH | NI | United Kingdom | Posted: 6:19 AM on 04.14.11 |
| ->> I use extreme Pro iv 4gb with a Lexar Pro CF reader which seems to work. I never like to have more than 500mbs to download at a time though. |
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Gregory Greene, Photographer
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Durham | NH | USA | Posted: 9:39 AM on 04.14.11 |
->> I use the SanDisk 60mb/s CF cards and so far they are very
reliable and fast with my 1D4. I tend to take short bursts
of 3-5 frames though so I doubt I'm really stressing the
system that much. At the time I bought them there was a huge
premium on the 90mb/s cards which I didn't think was worth
it. |
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Dan Powers, Photographer
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Appleton | WI | USA | Posted: 10:09 AM on 04.14.11 |
| ->> For shooting video with my Mark IV, I use the Lexar 16-gig 600x card...works nice. |
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Stephen Brashear, Photographer, Assistant
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 12:07 PM on 04.14.11 |
->> Here is a link to some read/write test on the Mark IV with Lexar, Sandisk and PhotoFast cards that might help. (http://www.slashgear.com/high-performance-compactflash-benchmarks-on-canon-.../).
It is my impression that once you get to 60mb/s and above the increase in speed for in-camera write speeds are negligible, which I'm sure will change as new cameras come out. Where I notice the difference is importing images using the faster card readers, ie., Expresscard and Firewire 800. In my own rudimentary and by no means scientific tests, the Sonnet Pro ExpressCard reader is slightly faster than the Lexar FW 800 readers and the Lexar ExpressCard reader (I'm sure the USB 3.0 readers are way faster). Sorry to go a little off-topic. |
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Ed Chan, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | US | Posted: 2:23 PM on 04.14.11 |
| ->> I've been quite pleased with my Photofast 533x plus 16GB CF cards. Have used Photofast cards for around 1.5 years without incident. They've been fast without breaking my piggy bank. |
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