SD CARD vs. CF CARD

i am considering to buy the Nikon D50 or the Canon XT but i would like to find out the pros and cons of the SD Card vs. the CF Card.
any advices.....

thanks in advance
mp

In considering between those two cameras, seems like the card does not limit the speed in burst mode. The D70 can shoot 3.0 fps. The XT can do 2.8 fps. Overall, it seems to me the Nikon is a little faster and can store more frames.

I think the SD card has a better connector design. My local drugstore can't accept CF cards for prints because some clown bent up the pins on their machine. I suppose it's possible this could happen in a camera - but it would require something like a foreign object falling into the pins.

On the other hand, it seems like bigger capacity cards are easier to find for the Nikon. And you could get microdrives in the CF size and have a 4 or 6GB capacity.

Opinions aside, I have no bias toward either. The two digitals I own - one is CF and the other is SD.

I switched from CF to SD. There isn't much of a difference in size or price. SD cards can fit inside a CF Type I adapter, which can then be used with all CF-based cameras.
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While the CF format allows for very high capacity media, the robust pinless design of the SD format wins me over. I've had to have a camera repaired due to bent CF pins which soured me on the format for good.

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I have both so no axe to grind, sd probably has more future, but by that time your camera will be way out of date and you'll be buying another anyway, cf has a capacity advantage for a few more years so if you want multi GB cards its the way to go, price per GB seems pretty comparable nowadays. I've not had reliability issues with either.

I've had failures with both so from my perspective it's all overvalued c* p. I've returned two 1GB Extreme III SD cards, one 1GB Extreme III CF card, and a 6GB Hitachi microdrive due to failure. I got new cards without a problem, but it does tell you something about quality control and reliability. The camera is Canon 1DsM2, and no, these failures haven't been caused by it. These are simply (a word not appreciatted at this forum) products. Don't get me wrong, when they work they work fine, and the new cards have been working just fine for some time now. Just the trouble of having to go to the store several times to exchange them kind of annoyed me. For that kind of money, they shouldn't have such a high failure rate. But then again, all the new hardware does. For every two new computer components sold, there is a person standing in line with a faulty one. Wether it's hard disks or monitors or whatever. I've done a lot of time in lines returning stuff and even more time explaining what is wrong with it and am quite fed up with it

cheers

Dabar

It seems to me theres so many other important features to consider
in a camera than the IMO trivial card type. Do yourself a favor and
don't by a camera based on card type, theres to many nice cameras
out there own. I had both types for equal amounts of time (S1&S2)
and never had a problem from either. MHO. cheers. 8-D
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