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Author Topic: What memory cards do you use? Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-02-2007 05:32 PM                     I need to pick up some additional SD cards for my new camera and want to know about your experiences with different brand names. I'm currently leaning toward the Lexar Professional High-Speed 4GB cards. High speed and capacity are vital for my use.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-02-2007 06:28 PM                     Assumming you're using it in a camera the Lexar works fine in my EOS. I'm finding that its more how good is the card reader you are using than how good is the card itself. All memory cards are inherently faster than the camera or card reader its plugged into. Mark  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-02-2007 07:16 PM                     Lexar is the best. Make sure to get the 133x. Also beware some cameras have issues with large capacity cards. Some are unhappy with over 2gig, some over 4gig, even though the manufacturer claims they can run Xgig.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-02-2007 07:53 PM                        I have a Sandisk eXtreme III (for 3x?) 4.0GB Compact Flash card my uncle gave me because it won't run in his camera. Works fine in mine and allows me to take many, many RAW pictures. Transfer rate is fast, but the camera itself still takes longer than I would prefer to save the RAW format after taking a picture (it probably has to compress it or something retarded like that). When connected to the hyper-futuristic "USB2" port, it can transfer a GB in about a minute. Great for transporting small amounts of porn and illegal warez 4GB at a time!!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-02-2007 07:57 PM                     Joe... More likely that the long delay part is because it is NOT compressing the RAW image.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-02-2007 08:36 PM                     I like SanDisk and Kingston  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-02-2007 09:12 PM                        Mark, it takes the camera longer to write a 30MB RAW file than it does for me to load 30MB of porn to the card from my hard drive.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-02-2007 09:45 PM                     Joe... Its because the porn you are loading onto the card is probably already compressed... so it loads faster. In reality the camera processor is slower and smaller. So Adam.... whats so vital about this... does your pacemaker run on it or are you loading porn at faster rates than Joe?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-02-2007 09:52 PM                        30MB is 30MB no matter if it consists of compressed or uncompressed material.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-03-2007 01:58 AM                     I use SanDisk for all my flash memory stuff. I have a couple SanDisk 2GB Ultra II compact flash cards for my D-SLR. I use a SanDisk MicroSD card for my mobile phone (which unfortunately was the only thing I had on hand for what was one of the most dramatic looking rainbows I'd ever seen in my life -damn, I was pissed I left the D-SLR at home).  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-04-2007 09:05 AM                     I also use a SanDisk SD in my camera, I've had it for quite a while and have never had a problem. Pictures always look great too. In my phone I have a KingMax Micro SD, not a fan.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 06-04-2007 09:12 AM                     30MB compressed probably wouldn't be 30MB anymore at all Joe  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-04-2007 01:07 PM                     For my new digital camera I got the Sandisc 1 Gb card. Due to a pricing glitch at Wal*Mart, it was a dollar cheaper than the 512 card.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-04-2007 05:13 PM                        quote: Damien Taylor 30MB compressed probably wouldn't be 30MB anymore at all Joe Am I surrounded by retards? 30MB is 30MB whether it is made out of 70 JPEG images or one RAW image.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-04-2007 06:11 PM                     Joe, The camera processor is slower... thats why its taking longer to write the same amount of data. Mark  |  IP: Logged

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