Best brand CF card for 5Dc

I know some brands work better than others in different bodies, so I am wondering what works best in a 5Dc? Or does it really matter for the 5D since it is pretty old.

Thanks!!

It doesnt really matter. Stay away from junk.

I always buy sandisk, I wait for them to be on sale. With a 5D, I think your options are limited based bus speed of the cameras CF slot...so maybe some of the high speed cards are a bit of overkill on the write side in camera BUT they are still nice to have.

Sandisk is, well, pretty much the leading brand for good reasons -- reliable high quality products. I've had other brands with no problems, but not "cheap" brands.

On my 5DC I use an 8GB Sandisk Extreme III as my "main" card, and another as a backup -- it holds a bit less than 500 Raw shots. As was said, the 5D is slow so you could call the card "overkill" but I want to have reasonably fast speeds downloading with a decent card reader.

I've used Sandisk, Transcend and Lexar.

All good IMO.

I'm like Tony - three of my four 5Dc cards are Sandisk Extreme III. But mine are 4Gb, which gives around 215 shots on RAW. My fourth (emergency) card is a 4Gb Sandisk Ultra which, at 30Mb/sec, is still plenty fast for the 5D write speed.

Thanks guys! I do have an 8GB SanDisk Extreme II, I'll use that.

I have two cheap SD E II from Walmart. Works fine and I'm able to take sports shots with it as well.

kf095 wrote in post #13121618
I have two cheap SD E II from Walmart. Works fine and I'm able to take sports shots with it as well.

My experience with cheap memory cards is that they work great...until they don't.

I stick with Sandisk and Lexar and I only buy from a reputable retailer so that I know the cards are not counterfeit. I'm sure there are other quality brands as well, but I don't have personal experience with any other brands.

kf095 wrote in post #13121618
I have two cheap SD E II from Walmart. Works fine and I'm able to take sports shots with it as well.

sharrowm wrote in post #13122365
My experience with cheap memory cards is that they work great...until they don't.

I stick with Sandisk and Lexar and I only buy from a reputable retailer so that I know the cards are not counterfeit. I'm sure there are other quality brands as well, but I don't have personal experience with any other brands.

If I'm correct, "KF" was referring to having two Sandisk Extreme II cards which he picked up for a discount at Walmart. And, since the "E II" is an "older" model, I'm not surprised that "WM" would sell it for relatively "cheap"!

Anybody have anything to say about the Kingston CF Cards... I just bought one and it seems to work fine..

thanks

dave

If they don't I'll replace them. But they do work and I haven't used really cheap ones from e-bay.

tonylong wrote in post #13123377
If I'm correct, "KF" was referring to having two Sandisk Extreme II cards which he picked up for a discount at Walmart. And, since the "E II" is an "older" model, I'm not surprised that "WM" would sell it for relatively "cheap"!

OK, I get it: SD=Sandisk. I guess I need to brushup on my memory card acronyms

Dave 1942 wrote in post #13123877
Anybody have anything to say about the Kingston CF Cards... I just bought one and it seems to work fine..

thanks

dave

I have a 4GB Kingston card that I've used as a backup -- I've had it for the past 5 years at least, using it with my 30D, and have had no problems with it. In fact, I almost always have bought SanDisk. Over the 9 years of doing digital photography I've only had one card fail, a little SD card that I was using in one of my old compact digicams, I imagine 8 or so years ago. And that represents a bunch of bodies and a lot of cards, both SD and now only CF.