10D & cf speed

[Saturn]

Hello:

I'm probably redundant on this issue. :? I'll be receiving my 10D tomorrow. Need to buy, over the next month, 10, 512mb cf cards. I don't remember if the 40x speed of the card will be of benefit with the 10D. I'm not shooting sports, (weddings). I don't need extreme speed, and feel the lower speed cards will be less of a pocketbook strain. Can I get buy with 12x card? I'm buying Lexar only.

Thanks.

[RichardtheSane]

You could get by with a 12x card quite easily. I used a microdrive for ages, can't be any quicker than 12x and that was for wildlife. Bit of a bugger was the time taken to clear the buffer.... so go slow f that is not as much of a concern.

My new 40x lexar clears the buffer in a few seconds less, doesn't sound like much... until you realise the shot you just took would have been missed with the slower card.

[Conk]

Hello:

I'm probably redundant on this issue. :? I'll be receiving my 10D tomorrow. Need to buy, over the next month, 10, 512mb cf cards. I don't remember if the 40x speed of the card will be of benefit with the 10D. I'm not shooting sports, (weddings). I don't need extreme speed, and feel the lower speed cards will be less of a pocketbook strain. Can I get buy with 12x card? I'm buying Lexar only.

Thanks.

I'm not sure why you would buy 10 cards? Why not buy a couple cards and an image tank?

[CyberDyneSystems]

You are correct,. a good 80% of a 40X's speed will indeed be wasted on a 10D.

Check out this and see what you think is the best bang for your buck;

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6111

The Viking 512 rates faster than the Lexar 12X.. and you can find these at Buy.com and Amazon with rebates for very good prices..

[RichardtheSane]

I'm not sure why you would buy 10 cards? Why not buy a couple cards and an image tank?

If I were ever to do a wedding (The day I am sucessful in nailing jelly to the ceiling while hell freezes over...) then I would not want to put all of my images into one device.

I might consider 2 1Gb cards instead though (OK, so that is what I am buying up at the moment after selling my xs-drive sans hard disk after the HDD died 3/4 of the way through a days shooting. :( )

[rudrasen]

You are correct,. a good 80% of a 40X's speed will indeed be wasted on a 10D.

Check out this and see what you think is the best bang for your buck;

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6111

The Viking 512 rates faster than the Lexar 12X.. and you can find these at Buy.com and Amazon with rebates for very good prices..

HI ,
can some explain why those cards are called 12x or 40x when are not 12 or 40 times for read or write speed ? Is it a marketing thing ?
what 12x or 40X mean ? & w.r.t. to what ?

thanks

[JoeTampa]

If you are using microdrives, I highly recommend the Sandisk Ultra II series CF. I bought one and it's almost like nitrous oxide for the 10D by comparison.

[WestFalcon]

I do quite a few weddings with two 10D's and use large jpegs. Last Saturday, I used 3 - 500MB cards. One was not filled. I back up important pictures(wedding party,B&G, parents) with two cameras...kind of like insurance in case a card goes bad and also gives me blink protection. My professional lab only takes jpegs. I average about 400-500 shots per wedding and edit down to about 200-250 proofs. I copy them onto my hard drive when I get home and then edit them/color correct, sharpen etc. I burn the final keepers onto Cds...two different brands in case one goes bad. I put them on my Flash Trax as a backup too. Now, I have the wedding in three places(2 CD's, Flash Trax and Hard drive).I send my edited proofs via a cable modem to my lab for printing...American Color in Cedar Falls , Iowa(150 miles away). I get them back in two days and put them in a proof book. The bride and groom get their pictures in about a week. Next, I can erase my cards and reformat them for the next wedding. I think you can easily get along with 5 - 512 cards unless you shoot raw. If you shoot raw, you had better have some seriously large storage space. Most wedding photgraphers in my area shoot jpegs. I have Kingston, Lexar Pro, SandDisk Extreme and Viking cards and I am very pleased with all of them. Card speed has never been an issue for me with weddings.

[IanD]

(The day I am sucessful in nailing jelly to the ceiling while hell freezes over...)
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