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Afternoon all,

I`ve just ordered a 40d + grip + 70-200L F2.8 so am in need of a couple of decent memory cards and a good uv filter. Where do you guys tend to buy your cards from for the best prices?

I wont touch ebay with regard to cards as there seems to be too many fakes around on there :-(


Thanks in advance
 
Ye would have to agree about Play, at the moment seem the best prices
 
:agree: £13.99 for a Sandisk Extreme III delivered from Play.com...can't go wrong:thumbs:
 
I found Amazon seem to have a good price, and it says "Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk" so should be a legit copy, not a copy from their marketplace.

£42.29 for a SanDisk Extreme III CF 8GB

Rob
 
Blimey looks like its play.com for me then :-)

Rob. thats a good price for 8gb but id be forever expecting it to fail and lose me hundreds of images heh. Think i`ll grab a couple of 2gb cards from play.


Cheers lads
 
Excellent, just ordered 2 x 2gb cards, cant complain at those prices can ya !
 
Another vote for Play.com ..... Good service when things go wrong too! ..... Called them when an order failed to arrive and they offered a refund or replacemnt without any problems.
 
just ordered a couple of 2GB cards myself!
 
I use MyMemory.co.uk, their own branded 133x cards are £17.99 for 4gb never had a problem with them, they even send free choccy with each order :)
 
i agree play.com is always good and reliable
 
pxl8 said:
I use MyMemory.co.uk, their own branded 133x cards are £17.99 for 4gb never had a problem with them, they even send free choccy with each order :)
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Woo free choccy lol, now that is different :-)
 
I use dane from 7day 4gb £17.99. but you should have blagged a couple from where you ordered the kit from, with a order that size they could'nt say no :D when I ordered my 70-200 2.8 from onestop digital I got them to drop the price and throw in a uv filter ;) remember if you dont ask you dont get :lol:
 
I have used www.orcalogic.co.uk they do Transcend ones, i have had 4 cards from them, 2x 1Gb, 1x 4Gb and 1x 8Gb never had any problems with them and very fast delivery.

JB
 
Hmm... why is everyone so keen on the sandisk extreme range? Is it the speed of the card or ???
 
I guess its the reliabilty of them :shrug:? I once saw a test of them to destruction in magazine, they tried all sorts like putting them in washing machine to break them and didn't manage.

I'm surprised no one said the obvious answer for the best place for a memory card, in a camera of course :p :tumbleweed:
 
pxl8 said:
Hmm... why is everyone so keen on the sandisk extreme range? Is it the speed of the card or ???
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Well personally, a few years ago I had a job that occasionally involved taking photographs from a helicopter (if I was lucky enough to escape the office :D), all the compact flash cards were SanDisk, at the time they had about 6 or 7 cards and have taken about 100k photos, and as far as I know, have never had a problem. Whilst I was working there, I think there was another 70k photos taken or so, again all SanDisk Extreme.

The cards are made to withstand a wide range of temperatures and shocks/vibrations so bearing in mind the conditions it's in and it's had no problems, I think thats pretty good going. So since I took up photography I've stuck with the brand and had no problems either, so no plans to change any time soon :)

Rob
 
So everyone is taking shots from a helicopter before sticking their CF cards in a washing machine? :thinking:

I've got about a dozen cheap cards, some are years old that still get used when I'm on a big job. I've not had a single error let alone lost an image and I've probably shot a total of250,000 frames using them.

As the card has no moving parts even the cheapest ones would outlast the rest of the camera on a shock and vibration test. Likewise the temp. ranges from -20c to 80c while a 1Ds MKIII only copes with 0c to 45c so it's not something the average user has to worry about.

That leaves speed and the bottleneck there is the camera and/or reader not the card.
 
pxl8 said:
So everyone is taking shots from a helicopter before sticking their CF cards in a washing machine? :thinking:
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Lol no, but I'm happy enough that if it gets dropped or sustains any knocks it won't be of real concern to my memory card :) I realize this should be the case for any compact flash card, and indeed micro drives if they aren't in use.

Good point regarding speed, but for me what it really comes down to though is that I've had good experiences with their cards *touch wood* and haven't found them to cost any more than other brands, so no reason to change :)

Rob
 
Bought a couple of SD cards from Picstop, vat free from their Jersey store. Very happy with product & service.
 
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