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Just use them and stop worrying. In a couple of years there'll be 100 Gg cards and you will have forgotten about this post.
jules

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Yeah, I agree about NEF throughput in the workflow. JPG Basic really speeds up sorting and culling.

Also, I like to pop my card in my Roku HD1000 HD photoviewer and watch them in full glory on the TV after any photo session. That photoviewer can only handle JPGs.
 
keep posting threads like this wondering if they should use 2 x 75 GB cards or 1 x 150 GB cards - someone will point this thread out as reference, same as someone pointed out the debate around 128 Mb vs 512 Mb cards - and in the end, nothing will ever change, except the debated card's size. You can bet on human predictability, it never fails. Best regards,

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As people previously mentionned, I'm more scared of me losing a CF card than it failing.

If it were me I'd use 8 GB only but nowadays the rebates are for 4 GB cards, so that's what I'm grabbing =p
 
for some of the CF 8GB Card is not enough to cause any loss of sleep for me and the reliability of my Ridata 150x has been perfect....A series of 19MB+ Raw Images fill a CF card pretty quickly.....
 
I use 3 4GB cards and one 8GB.

I prefer the 4GB for if I have to back the files up right away while on the road, they fit on a DVD.

I bought the 8GB for long time lapse work, it is great for that among other things.
 
2gb of files gone, and I mean gone. And sandisk arn't interested in getting them back.
 
they are reliable in your mind untill one dies. see my post below.
 
Hemidart said:
Why would someone want to have all their photos on a single card?
Anyone worried how sucky it would be if you lost a days worth of
shootiing because a card went bad?
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Two years ago I thought like this. But it was before I had my d2X, which only gives me 100 raw files per 2 GB card. Back then I thought it was nuts to get a 4 GB card. I just bought one recently. I can unload 200 raw images into my computer in two minutes.

Also, to speed up my workflow, I now shoot raw+jpeg, and make my first triaging pass through the jpegs. That makes the 4 GB card more like a 3.2 GB card, giving me about 140 images. That's not a lot of images. I can shoot that many at a family gathering in a half hour if things are really hopping. Then a quick trip to my computer and I'm ready for another 140 images, being able to read the entire 4 GB card in just two minutes!

Nothing at all "nuts" about these big cards. If I could afford it, of course I'd go to 8 GB. In a heart beat.
Hemidart said:
I won't buy anything larger then a 2GB and even now will trade it
out when I know I got some keepers on it during a day of shooting.
Just this last Saturday I got six great shots because the clouds
were perfect position...I switched out the card for a fresh
one...just to be sure.

I guess it comes from being a network engineer and how many times I
have seen things take a dump for no reason.
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If you buy high quality cards, there's nothing to worry about. CF cards aren't networks. They are 100 times as reliable. As an engineer, you should know that.

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I really can´t see the relation between nuts and memory cards (?) :-)

Aren´t the CF cards are more reliable than the portable drive you end downloading the images onto while on a gig? I would worry more about the hard drives. I rather take 3 x 8 GB CF cards on a trip, than carry around a hard-drive... ok, better have them both.

Also, it´s quite a lot nicer with 3 x 8 GB than 20 x 1 GB cards.

You get a "400 shot endlessly reusable film" ( RAW ) for the price of 15 rolls of film. I mean, for the film cost of a day shooting, you could buy two 8GB cards. I think that is the bargain of a lifetime.

The downside is, that the 8GB will be the smallest CF card available in 2010 and it will cost $14.99.
 
I have one 8 GB card and 2 * 2 GB cards for my D2x. When shooting sports or events in which you really shoot a lot of images it is perfect. You do not have the time to switch a card then... you do not want to miss a shot. That is the reason why I bought a 8 GB card...

It realy depends a little on the camera you have and the settings. I shoot about 100 RAW images on a 2 GB card and about 400 on a 8 GB card. When using RAW+JPEG even less. But if you shoot a different camera or a medium quality JPEG, 8GB is a little over the top...

I only have used Sandisk cards until now (6 years) and until now no single card has broken.

Nevertheless I always backup my images on an imagetank. Including the 3 CF cards this should be sufficient I hope....

Regards,
Nick
 
Buy a programme called Don't Panic. You get to try it first and see if it works (the demo just lets you recover a couple of files i think so you can see if it will be succesful or not). I bought it and it worked well in recovering lost files.
Jules
Dazaau said:
2gb of files gone, and I mean gone. And sandisk arn't interested in
getting them back.
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I did try a paid program, but the card is toast - dead. The programs can't even read it. Thanks for the advice though - I really would like to have the images back, I might dowload the program and see what happens.

Thanks
 
Two reasons:

1) High density CF usually means the latest technology node, which also means immature. Early life reliability failures are rather common for new technology.
2) Too many eggs in one basket.

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In my office I have over one terabyte of files on hard disks -- with two complete backups of each disk. Even then, I get nervous about losing data. In the office there's NO WAY I'll put all my data onto one huge hard disk. So why should I do that with my camera? Especially because I'm not going to carry backup devices everywhere I go.

8 or more GB cards? Uh-uh. Nothing to do with price. It's a matter of when -- not if -- a card gets lost, stepped on or otherwise torched, I'll suffer controllable losses. Peace of mind.

Regards,

Tom B
 
Hemidart said:
I won't buy anything larger then a 2GB
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Hemidart said:
Why would someone want to have all their photos on a single card?
Anyone worried how sucky it would be if you lost a days worth of
shootiing because a card went bad?

I won't buy anything larger then a 2GB and even now will trade it
out when I know I got some keepers on it during a day of shooting.
Just this last Saturday I got six great shots because the clouds
were perfect position...I switched out the card for a fresh
one...just to be sure.

I guess it comes from being a network engineer and how many times I
have seen things take a dump for no reason.

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drip01 said:
Two reasons:
1) High density CF usually means the latest technology node, which
also means immature. Early life reliability failures are rather
common for new technology.
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I don't know about other brands, but by the time SanDisk comes out with an Extreme card, it is just as reliable as the last generation. Your generalization doesn't apply in this case.
drip01 said:
2) Too many eggs in one basket.
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An old argument that doesn't apply to today's style of shooting hundreds of images in one day.

I can't believe how many people are still thinking like luddites on this topic.

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i'm of the opinion that most of the CF problems are more related to improper formatting on the computer than actual problems with the card itself. that being said, at one point, i had 9 compact flash cards (512mb to 2gb) and used them all extensively. during that span, i've had exactly one card failure (lexar pro 80x) but lost track/misplaced/mistakenly reformatted cards multiple times. so, i gave away all my smaller cards and replaced them with two different 8gb ridata cards...easy to manage and i've not had any problems.
 
i agree. i use only 8gbs when travelling. i had a problem with one but was able to retrieve 90% of the files. i think the problem was that i formatted the card in a d2x but used it in a 5d.
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fjp said:
drip01 said:
Two reasons:
1) High density CF usually means the latest technology node, which
also means immature. Early life reliability failures are rather
common for new technology.
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I don't know about other brands, but by the time SanDisk comes out
with an Extreme card, it is just as reliable as the last
generation. Your generalization doesn't apply in this case.
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What do you know anyway. What data do you have? I have tons of rel data in the semi industry after all these years. Do you know what reliability physics is about? Do you know how many possible wyas can a ciruit fail under stress? That's no generalization. No manufacturer is immune from the initial learning phase of a new technology. Understood?
fjp said:
fjp said:
2) Too many eggs in one basket.
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An old argument that doesn't apply to today's style of shooting
hundreds of images in one day.

I can't believe how many people are still thinking like luddites on
this topic.
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Why doesn't it apply? You shoot 500 images and put it in one card and it fails. You lost all 500 images. If you put them in two cards and one card fails, you lost 250 images instead. Which part don't you understand?
I can't believe someone still argues with no basis.

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