best CF cards suggestion

I need to get a new CF card and was wondering what you guys think about them - I have 4g Ultra II and shoot with my 40D - I was wondering about the difference in the Ultra and Extreme - I shoot alot of birds and use fast burst at 6/fps - do you have any suggestions?? I think I want to get a 8g or 16 g card? I always shoot in Raw and will probably change bodies in the next month or so to a 7d or Mark IV

Then get the Extreme. I find that 8 GB is a reasonable size in terms of number of frames/card for cameras that are between 12 and 25 MP (shooting RAW). I have 32 GB Extremes in my 5D2 and 7D ATM and it takes forever for Downloader Pro to sort through the already-downloaded shots so I only need to worry about the new ones.

Check out the Transcend cards ( and others ) that newegg sells . You can get the 16GB 400x Transcend for $60 and the 32GB for around $115

I use the Transcent 64G 400X cards in my 7D and have been getting between 20 to 26 RAWS before the camera slows down in bursts. And for $195 (at NewEgg.com) they give you lots of space to take photos and take advantage of video capacity of the new cameras as well. I filled 3.5 cards while on holidays last month.

--Evan

nitehawk55 wrote in post #10874411
Check out the Transcend cards ( and others ) that newegg sells . You can get the 16GB 400x Transcend for $60 and the 32GB for around $115

I have a pair of 16 GB Transcend 400x CF cards. So far, they have worked great when shooting softball/ baseball and volleyball tournaments.

Evan Idler wrote in post #10874502
I use the Transcent 64G 400X cards in my 7D and have been getting between 20 to 26 RAWS before the camera slows down in bursts.

Card speed has virtually zero bearing on how long it takes to fill the buffer. I get 20 raws with a 3 MB/s card and 20 raws with my 60 MB/s card. The only difference between them is how quickly the buffer empties (between 11 and 146 seconds).