Canon M80 card reader

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just brought a canon M80 CF/SD card reader :)
cant wait
are they any good?
 
Only if you paid less than £20 for it. Otherwise they're too slow and too low a capacity.
 
payed a bit more than that but im going to Afghanistan
so will be in remote places
ill have a 32Gb card and a 16Gb
i took 3200 photos last time so 80Gb should be enough

getting a 7D to take with me

have you owned one before?
 
brad131987 said:
just brought a canon M80 CF/SD card reader :)
cant wait
are they any good?
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I have a M80 mate and think its pretty good and honestly don't find it particularly slow. I personally also find the 80GB enough for me. I put 2 x 16GB and 2 x 8Gb CF cards on to it with no issues. I only use it has a quick way of
Getting a back up copy of my images whilst out and about. once I am home I transfer images from my CF cards to the mac, carry out my back up procedure and once happy I have at lease three copies of the image I format the M80 freeing up my 80Gb for next time.
 
cheers
ive read mixed reviews but mostly good
but better to get 1st hand info on it
 
Mark1203 said:
I have a M80 mate and think its pretty good and honestly don't find it particularly slow.
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It transfers from CF at an amazingly slow 4MB/s. That means a teeny-tiny 4GB card will take 1000s to transfer. That's over a quarter of an hour! You say you transferred 48GB. That would take 4 hours! The Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA will do the same in around 20 minutes.

And it only transfers to a PC at 7.5MB/s. So it would have taken over 2 hours to transfer those 48GB.
 
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