Lexar 12X CF Flash Sale

[Jerry Eisen]

Office Max has it for sale after rebates for 99.95. Limited time.

Jerry

[defordphoto]

What size? Give us linkage man! :)

[Canuck]

Office Max has it for sale after rebates for 99.95. Limited time.

Jerry

Ho-hum...
Here's the link: http://www.officemax.com/max/solutions/product/prodBlock.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&expansionOID=-536879947&prodBlockOID=536992274

The gist of it:
512MB CompactFlash. Price shown reflects $60 Instant Rebate. $20 Mail-In Rebate Also Available. Mail-In Rebate Valid 12/28 - 1/24 Only!
Item # 20602117 , Style # CF512-12-232/251
cost:$119.98 I read that as normally priced at $179.98 less $60 instant rebate=$119.98, then the $20 mail in rebate gets you final cost of $99.98

Clear as mud? Cool!

[defordphoto]

Ahhh. Yeah. As clear as the poll thread eh?

Actually you can go here: http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/product_info.php?products_id=56&osCsid=d145c3a42cc 44b15900f05b3106f2771

And for $29 more with no rebate-itis get a card that is more than twice faster (30X card).

[Canuck]

Ahhh. Yeah. As clear as the poll thread eh?

Actually you can go here: http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/product_info.php?products_id=56&osCsid=d145c3a42cc 44b15900f05b3106f2771

And for $29 more with no rebate-itis get a card that is more than twice faster (30X card).

This is what I did while waiting for you to reply to my polling idea.

[defordphoto]

Ahhh. Yeah. As clear as the poll thread eh?

Actually you can go here: http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/product_info.php?products_id=56&osCsid=d145c3a42cc 44b15900f05b3106f2771

And for $29 more with no rebate-itis get a card that is more than twice faster (30X card).

This is what I did while waiting for you to reply to my polling idea.

GMTA

[arthurb]

And for $29 more with no rebate-itis get a card that is more than twice faster (30X card).

Of course since the Canon Digital cameras don't use the higher speed, it may be a waste of money...

[defordphoto]

And for $29 more with no rebate-itis get a card that is more than twice faster (30X card).

Of course since the Canon Digital cameras don't use the higher speed, it may be a waste of money...

Yes they do. That's not a WA card.

[defordphoto]

Now this card: http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/product_info.php?products_id=122 is WA and the Canon's would not utilize the WA function. That still does not make this card a 'waste of money.'

[msnow]

And for $29 more with no rebate-itis get a card that is more than twice faster (30X card).

Of course since the Canon Digital cameras don't use the higher speed, it may be a waste of money...

Yes they do. That's not a WA card.

Jim are you sure about that? Because that goes against what I've heard and read also. I asked the Canon rep while at Canoga Camera a couple of months ago and he said the same thing. I may have also seen a post from Chuck Westphal (sp?) in some other forum that confirmed it. My understanding is that spending the money on a 60x card as opposed to a 20x would be wasted because it would show no discernable increase in write spead to the card from the camera. Now if you mean read/write from the reader then, of course, it would make a big difference. If I'm wrong I'd like to know it because it would be great get those images to memory in the camera as fast as possible.

[defordphoto]

So you're saying that all Canon dSLRs have a read/write cap on them? I have never heard of that, but that does makes sense. The buffer can only write so fast I guess. I have just never heard/seen it discussed. What is that limit then? They do not support WA. That we know.

But, on the other front, the difference between a 40x and 60x card would be measured in fractions of seconds (milli? micro?). There comes a point where the speed would have to exponentially increase to make it worthwhile. Just like the difference between a 2.66gHz Pentium and a 3.0 would be undiscernable to almost all users.

[4walls]

The G3 makes use of the higher speed cards. I have a Scandisk card which will record a maximum of 30 seconds of video and a Lexar 12X card which will record well over 2 minutes of video. According to the Canon manual, high speed cards allow more video recording.

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4walls
YVR, G3, Photoshop CS

[msnow]

So you're saying that all Canon dSLRs have a read/write cap on them? I have never heard of that, but that does makes sense. The buffer can only write so fast I guess. I have just never heard/seen it discussed. What is that limit then? They do not support WA. That we know.

But, on the other front, the difference between a 40x and 60x card would be measured in fractions of seconds (milli? micro?). There comes a point where the speed would have to exponentially increase to make it worthwhile. Just like the difference between a 2.66gHz Pentium and a 3.0 would be undiscernable to almost all users.

Yes, that's what I understand but let's see what others know about this. Your right about the speed increase, it would probably not be noticable. You sort of have to do a cost/benefit analysis on the advantage of the added speed versus the significantly higher cost (on the Camera R/W). On the card reader/writer it's a completely different story because a 40 --> 60 increase is 50% increase in speed on the R/W.