What CF Card do you use?

[Razeus]

Which one do you use. I picked up 2 PNY UDMA 4GB x266 cards to go with my 50D.

[canonnoob]

extreme III's are the only ones that go in my camera.

[DL.Photography]

2x 8GB Sandisk Extreme III, 1x 4GB Sandisk Extreme III

I have no idea why I have so many..I think I will sell one of the 8GB's soon tho

[ed rader]

Which one do you use. I picked up 2 PNY UDMA 4GB x266 cards to go with my 50D.


i use extreme IIIs and extreme IVs. i have five 8s and one 16.

ed rader

[canonnoob]

2x 8GB Sandisk Extreme III, 1x 4GB Sandisk Extreme III

I have no idea why I have so many..I think I will sell one of the 8GB's soon tho

I have 5 cards....

[FlyingPhotog]

4 X 8Gb Extreme III
2 X 4Gb Extreme III

[20DNewbie]

Lexar Pro and Extreme III here.

[TTk]

Lexar 133x, 2x4GB
Kingston 133x, 4x4GB.

[ben_r_]

4x Extreme III 8GB
1x Extreme III 16GB

[Mystwalker]

SanDisk, Kingston, PQI, Transcend, RiData ...

I do not shoot video and do not often shot continuous so I pick up most affordable (cheapest) that is available at time I look.

The RiData 16GB x233, @ less then $50 seems a winner for my 5DII.

[Calicajun]

Extreme III are used in all my cameras.

[_aravena]

3x Kingston 4GB 133x
1x Kingston 8GB 133x

[Dirtysohc]

4 x 16 Gb extreme III's

[darosk]

3 x Extreme III 4gbs, 2 x Extreme III 2gbs

[apthai86]

4x Extreme III 8GB
1x Extreme III 4GB

[speedline_fc]

3x Extreme III 8GB (rebate deal)
1x Kingston Ultimate 200x 8GB
1x Kingston Elite Pro 133x 8GB
1x Kingston Ultimate 200x 4GB
2x Kingston Elite Pro 133x 4GB

[Cyclop]

Multiple SanDisk CF Extreme III 4GB & 8GB memory cards. Very reliable.

[bohdank]

2 x 4 gig Transcend 266x
1 x 4 gig Transcend 300x
1 x 16 gig 133x Transcend
1 x 16 gig 133x Transcend which I have misplaced (fortunately no images on it)

> 15k shots through them.

I bought a Netbook so no more CF cards for the foreseeable future.

[rklepper]

I have 5 - 4 GB Sandisk Extreme IV's.

[r.morales]

from 8 mb to 16 gig
Most brands - go for what's on sale / rebate .
So far the Sandisk extreme III is the best , fastest will takes 7 shots before busy signal . Next is the 133x transcend - will do 6 shots before busy signal .
These are of bride / groom comming down Isle then bridemaids - shooting raw+jped w flash as fill .
I have found that downloading from camera - slowest , then USB 2 next is firewire 400 and the fastest is firewire 800 . The funny thing is the firewire 800 w / adapter to 400 is about 3 seconds faster on 12 gigs . Going the othe way - 400 into an 800 computer - about 15 seconds slower .

[soulevolved]

Wow seems like everyone's got the Extreme's on theirs.
4x Sandisk Ultra II 4GB
2x Sandisk Ultra II 2GB

[Jim G]

I use a couple of 8G Extreme IIIs... one CF and one SD in the 1D and one SD in the Olympus.

I also have 2x 2G Ultra IIs, one 4G Ultra II, a 32GB Nikon CF, a 256mb Transcend CF and another 2G which I can't remember the brand of... none of them have seen light of day for quite some time :p

[Tim3less]

Extreme IIIs all the way... i've never had a problem with them, (2x 8gig CF) fast enough for my use.

[pwm2]

2x Extreme IV 16GB - for 5DMk2
2x Extreme III 8GB - for 40D
3x Extreme III 4GB - for 350D
3x Ultra II 1GB - for Dimage 7U
1x SanDisk CF 1GB - for Dimage 7U
1x IBM Microdrive 1GB - for Dimage 7U

Also have a cheaper 32GB card (Edit: Kingston Elite PRO 133x) as panic spare in case I'm not able to empty the two 16GB cards. Slower, but at least I don't have to browse around in panic to find something to delete.

[dovaka]

it depends on what im doing at the time
http://dovaka.net/hosted/cfcards.jpg

[RyanQ]

2x 4gb Extreme III
1x 2gb PNY 266x

[r.morales]

Anyone know if a card faster than 133 will speed up an XTI ?

[Razeus]

it depends on what im doing at the time
http://dovaka.net/hosted/cfcards.jpg


wow, people actually have different memory cards for different purposes?

[Headsick]

2x Extreme IV 8GB in my 50D. Found recently that I could actually use a 32, lol.

[profec291]

4 x 8GB Extreme III
1 x 2GB Extreme IV <--- Didn't know I had...doh!
1 x 2GB Lexar Pro 133x

Lot's of Extreme III users here!

[dovaka]

wow, people actually have different memory cards for different purposes?

sure some are better in some cameras in others, sometimes i set a time lapse to run all day without going back to it so i need a really big card and there are times i go days being away from my laptop for various reasons so thats why i have spares on top of a cf card downloader that holds 120gb for field backups

[jdizzle]

I use Sandisk Ducatis in 8Gb. Fast enough for me. :)

[Az2Africa]

Pretec 333 4x16gb
Sandisk III 1x12gb, 8x2gb
Sandisk IV 4x8gb

[hollis_f]

I have 5 cards....

I've no idea how many cards I actually own, it must be dozens. Over the years each has been replaced by a faster, larger card. I started off with an 8MB card (yup - MB) which I've still got somewhere. Nowadays I actually use a 16GB Extreme IV, WexPro 16GB UDMA and 12 GB Extreme III.

[ShauningtoN]

Extreme III and IV :)

[pwm2]

I decided to use different size for different bodies just to make sure I don't get hit by the auto-jump in image number sequence by using the wrong card.

[pastanley]

Lexar 8GB 233x speed for my 40D.

[Jon]

Bunch of 8 and 4 GB Extreme IVs and 4 and 2 GB Extreme IIIs. Anything slower or smaller is for emergency use only. In fact, the 2 GB Extreme IIIs are rapidly reaching that level.

[Halliday]

Sandisk, all sizes and flavors.

[mrfourcows]

i've got lexar, sandisk ultra ii, and extreme iii.

[r.morales]

My reason for so many sizes - 8 mb to 16 gig . An example is this year I transferred 46 pictures to the sandisk 1 gig card .They have a sandisk XX to 1 reader .
Last year when I left Mexico I put some last minute shots on a 512 mb card . I got it back this year .
The biggest card the picture machine will read is a 4 gig . I don't speak much spanish - easier than going home coping to a smaller card and then picking out shots I want . .

[DeaconG]

2X SanDisk Extreme III 16GB
1X SanDisk Extreme III 4GB

[spamster]

Sandisk Extreme III.

[Veemac]

An 8 GB Ultra II and an 8 GB Extreme III here.