Sandisk Ultra III compact flash cards

Yesterday I was bumming around in different stores looking at photo equipment when I ran into a display of Sandisk compact flash cards. The store was a Best Buys store.
They had the Ultra III 30mb. Professional cards. I was looking to find an 8 gig. card for an up coming trip to Sitka, Alaska. The price on the 8 gig. cards is astronomical every place I looked.
Well, the 8 gig Ultra III's were $169 each. Right beside them was a peg that held 4 gig. Ultra III's and I was amazed to see the price! $49 each.

I happily grabbed the remaining 3 cards that remained on the peg! I got 3 4gig. 30 mb per second Professional cards for less than I would have paid for a single 8 gig. card!

So, if you happen to have a Best Buy Store in your neighborhood and you need another compact flash card; you had best rush down to the store to see if you can save some Big Bucks!

Dick

Pretty decent price...but they're Extreme III's not Ultras.

TXLEBER wrote in post #5914607
Pretty decent price...but they're Extreme III's not Ultras.

TXLEBER,
They just say Etreme III on the box.

Dick

I prefer the 4GB size (on anything less than a 1Ds anyway) as they easily hold several hundred images each (400+ RAW on a 1D2N) and I'd rather split my images up over multiple cards than "put them all in the same basket" so to speak. If your single, huge card fails or gets lost you're hosed. At least with multiple cards you have a greater chance of keeping most of your images.

Just picked up 2 133x Kingston for $20 so I'm good for now. I think they're still on sale too for less than $30 but not $20

Double Negative wrote in post #5915726
I prefer the 4GB size (on anything less than a 1Ds anyway) as they easily hold several hundred images each (400+ RAW on a 1D2N) and I'd rather split my images up over multiple cards than "put them all in the same basket" so to speak. If your single, huge card fails or gets lost you're hosed. At least with multiple cards you have a greater chance of keeping most of your images.

We were saying this when 4 GB cards were really expensive. People were saying to use all 1 GB cards for this exact reason. I guess we'll be saying to not have more than 8GB size cards in a year or two.

goldboughtrue wrote in post #5917477
We were saying this when 4 GB cards were really expensive. People were saying to use all 1 GB cards for this exact reason. I guess we'll be saying to not have more than 8GB size cards in a year or two.

Probably, LOL... But on the flipside, camera resolution (file size) is also steadily increasing.

Yeah. If I was shooting with the 1DS then I would definitely go 8GB because 8-10mp allows for the size of the card times 100. 4GB=400 shots in RAW etc.

A 5D, maybe 1 8GB card but I' still shoot with 4GB normally, I could deal with just less than 400 shots.

grandpawrichard wrote in post #5914657
TXLEBER,
They just say Etreme III on the box.

Dick

But they say Ultra III on the card itself?

TXLEBER wrote in post #5914607
Pretty decent price...but they're Extreme III's not Ultras.

Canon data I/O is somewhat constipated compared to the Nikon! You will get little benefit from Extreme IV in an Canon, compared to Extreme III -- must more cost-effective memory for a Canon

PacAce wrote in post #5920707
But they say Ultra III on the card itself?

Are you sure it says Ultra III?

Sandisk only list

Extreme Ducati
Extreme IV
Extreme III
and Ultra II

On their website (ignoring normal cards)

Sandisk High Performance

Peter

PBest78 wrote in post #5921296
Are you sure it says Ultra III?

Sandisk only list

Extreme Ducati
Extreme IV
Extreme III
and Ultra II

On their website (ignoring normal cards)

Sandisk High Performance

Peter

The sentence in my post you quoted was an interrogative statement, not a declarative. In other words, I was asking the OP if the wording on the card says "Ultra III" or "Extreme III" because he said that it just said "Extreme III" on the box yet he referred to the cards as Ultra III.

Wilt wrote in post #5921179
Canon data I/O is somewhat constipated compared to the Nikon! You will get little benefit from Extreme IV in an Canon, compared to Extreme III -- must more cost-effective memory for a Canon

Actually, I bought larger Ultra IIs for my 30D for this exact reason; for my shooting style and camera, there's very little benefit for the Extreme III over the Ultra II, and the Ultra II is twice the size for the same price (I got a pair of 4G ultra IIs for ~$75 on sale a couple weeks ago, and a pair of 2G extreme IIIs would have been roughly the same amount).

There was a blurb about it on dpreview but I can't seem to locate it now.

PacAce wrote in post #5921310
The sentence in my post you quoted was an interrogative statement, not a declarative. In other words, I was asking the OP if the wording on the card says "Ultra III" or "Extreme III" because he said that it just said "Extreme III" on the box yet he referred to the cards as Ultra III.

Sorry misread your post

Will pay more attention to POTN instead of work next time

Peter

PBest78 wrote in post #5921404
Sorry misread your post

Will pay more attention to POTN instead of work next time

Peter

Yes, that's a very good idea. When you are in POTN you should never let trivial things, such as work, distract you.