Using CF to SD adapters

[bdj6020]

I will shortly be purchasing a Canon 10d or 300d. I have several devices that use SD cards, and I have many of them lying around. Has anyone attempted using a CF to SD adapter in one of these cameras? Do they work? If so is the camera significantly faster or slower when writing to the storage media? There are many different brands of these out there, are there any differences between them?

[PaulB]

Don't know of anyone who has tried this - any takers?

However I think you would have to use the Type 2 adapter as the Type 1 + SD card is longer than a CF card.
Also I believe that an SD card writes much slower than CF cards, although read speeds can be high - but might be out of date on this.

As you are buying a new body it really does deserve a decent size high-speed CF card to go with it surely?
Don't buy the Write Accelerated cards though - the present Canon 10D and 300D do not have WA enabled.

[Belmondo]

I don't know the answer to this, but my first reaction when reading the question was, "Why?" I understand your desire to utilize the SD cards you currently own, but with the vulnerability towards bent pins, compatibility issues, and the plain old 'funkiness factor,' all seem to dictate that you should only be sticking things in the CF slot that were intended to go there. Jeopardizing a $1500 camera for the sake of some relatively inexpensive SD cards would probably not be your best move.

Tom

[CyberDyneSystems]

I beleive the SD adapter is only so you can read the SD card in a CF card reader,. I do not htink it works in a camera.