16GB Storage?

To be honest I think Lexar, Sandisk or Transcend in the x600 speed are all about the same quality, but you pay a bit for the Lexar and Sandisk name, with Sandisk I presume you still get the little cloth card holder things too.

I have Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s , Transcend 600X Compact Flash cards and a Lexar SD for the second slot on my camera, not had problems with any of them.

If your going to shoot just jpegs, I doubt 600x would really be worth the money, I shoot RAW multi-shot sports and up to 1000 shots a day that's why I got the x600, but with jpeg an x400 will do just fine.

Oh I have the Lexar fw800 reader, fast yes, cheap to buy NO. :(
 
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Surely if you are efficient and download your photos to your pc on a daily basis or whenever you do some work it will not really matter if you use a 4gb 8gb 16 or whatever as long as it holds enough for the days shooting :shrug:

As for speed I start an import and look through my shots one at a time, I have a little play and never really notice the speed that they have loaded into the computer. Other options would be start import, make coffee, then have a look :)
 
formula400 said:
what if you lose one of the 4 or 8gb cards while out and about and can not relocate it???
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Been there, done that !

I spend an age looking in a field at a cross country race for a 4GB card after swapping them, I knew where I dropped it but no matter how hard I search I could not find it.

Lucky for me later in the day a very kind chap came up with to me with my card and asked if I'd dropped it. :D
 
I've always been a Sandisk man but now my main card is a Transcend 32GB 400x (various Sandisk Extreme IV and Ultra II as backups). Bad memories of losing a 4GB card at a night-time event and a bent CF pin in an Ixus is enough for me to deliberately try to avoid having to change cards during a shoot/event. I bet we've been arguing the "eggs in one basket" since the 8MB days (that's the size of CF card that my Ixus Classic came with!) and personally I'd rather guard one basket than many.

The 32GB Transcend was £86 from www.allmemorycards.co.uk when I bought it last March, and only £60 today.
 
So Transcend at £55, Lexar at £129 and Sandisk at £151.

Do all the above come roughly in the same quality band, even if its 16gb or 2gb?
 
john182rs said:
So Transcend at £55, Lexar at £129 and Sandisk at £151.

Do all the above come roughly in the same quality band, even if its 16gb or 2gb?
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There all equal at the x600 speed IMHO, somebody has to pay for all the promotion that Sandisk does.
 
think i will get the transcend one then at 56 quid, then if that goes stuff up i will get some thing like the sandisk one.
 
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