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SanDisk Ultra
- Thread starter richfield
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dirk duetemeyer
Active member
Although I've no information about the V3, it's very probable that the writing speed of the V3 depends the brand of the card.
Different online and paper magazines tested different digicams with different cards and they found considerable differences in writing speed, also for different Canon digicams, but unfortunately I don't know any tests with the V3.
See also my conrtibution:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=4223550
Regards,
Duete
Duete
http://www.pbase.com/xpan15
Different online and paper magazines tested different digicams with different cards and they found considerable differences in writing speed, also for different Canon digicams, but unfortunately I don't know any tests with the V3.
See also my conrtibution:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=4223550
Regards,
Duete
--On the German Canon Bulletin Board I found a posting saying that
the Ultra makes no difference compared to a standard in the IXUS
v3. Furthermore the Ultra has no error correction to speed things
up.
Is this true?
Duete
http://www.pbase.com/xpan15
Sandisk, Ultra or otherwise, is the worse card on the market. Look at the speed tests and you'll see htat this is the only card that stands uot from the pack as having dramatically worse performance than any of its competitors, ALL of which are much cheaper.
See also my conrtibution:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=4223550
Regards,
Duete
--On the German Canon Bulletin Board I found a posting saying that
the Ultra makes no difference compared to a standard in the IXUS
v3. Furthermore the Ultra has no error correction to speed things
up.
Is this true?
Duete
http://www.pbase.com/xpan15
Thomas Bantel
Well-known member
Mike, what are your bad experiences with SanDisk? Considering the fact, that there is no thread on this server with the words SanDisk and CF in a message that hasn't got a similar reply from you, I suspect you have had VERY bad experiences with SanDisk CF cards in the past. I would be truely interested in your first hand experiences with SanDisk CF cards. Every piece of information is valuable.Sandisk, Ultra or otherwise, is the worse card on the market. Look
at the speed tests and you'll see htat this is the only card that
stands uot from the pack as having dramatically worse performance
than any of its competitors, ALL of which are much cheaper.
As far as my very limited experience goes, SanDisk is at worst the "second worst" card on the market. The only other comparison I have is a store brand card (Hama 256MB). Those 2 cards I owned were most definitely not any faster than SanDisk (both normal and ultra) in my G3. They were definitely unuseable with a G3, because they constantly featured CF card errors and lost pictures.
Please note, that I have no connection to SanDisk whatsoever. It's just that I can't stand such sweeping statements like "worst card on the market", which is clearly not the case. Also note, that I don't claim Hama is the worst brand CF card on the market, those cards may just have problems to work properly in a G3 and might work flawlessly with other cameras/products. This may as well be a problem caused by the G3, who knows ...
Thomas Bantel
dirk duetemeyer
Active member
Mike, I can not agree.Sandisk, Ultra or otherwise, is the worse card on the market. Look
at the speed tests and you'll see htat this is the only card that
stands uot from the pack as having dramatically worse performance
than any of its competitors, ALL of which are much cheaper.
Buying a CF-Card depends 1. on what you need, 2. on what you can buy/get and 3. on what you want to pay.
...1. The review here on dpreview shows that SanDisk is not best choice concerning perfomance an price. I noticed this before I got my Sandisk for my former S40. BUT there were also several other (online and paper) (national and international) magazines, which made perfomance tests with certain digicams and in two of them I found that especially for the S40 the perfomance of the SanDisk Ultra was very good, even it was not the best. So dpreview's test was only one among others.
...2. When I started searching for 512 MB-CF-cards from several brands at local and online dealers here in Germany I noticed that some brands were not available.
...3. Here in Germay, SanDisk usaually is much cheaper than all the other brands wich are mentioned in dpreview's test (I paid ~$ 0.52/MB half year ago; It was much below the german medium price for 512 MB-CF-highspeed-cards).
Combining these three effects with the possibility to get the card within 24 hours and a german 10 year warranty was the decisive of buying THAT card.
I'm satisfied with my SanDisk Ultra 512 MB.
Regards,
Duete
--
Duete
http://www.pbase.com/xpan15
Has anyone seen online reviews with consumer cameras? All the reviews I have seen were on SLRs, which is not exactly applicable to our cheap cameras. It's like testing tyres for your Golf on a 911Turbo.
Mike, I can not agree.Sandisk, Ultra or otherwise, is the worse card on the market. Look
at the speed tests and you'll see htat this is the only card that
stands uot from the pack as having dramatically worse performance
than any of its competitors, ALL of which are much cheaper.
Buying a CF-Card depends 1. on what you need, 2. on what you can
buy/get and 3. on what you want to pay.
...1. The review here on dpreview shows that SanDisk is not best
choice concerning perfomance an price. I noticed this before I got
my Sandisk for my former S40. BUT there were also several other
(online and paper) (national and international) magazines, which
made perfomance tests with certain digicams and in two of them I
found that especially for the S40 the perfomance of the SanDisk
Ultra was very good, even it was not the best. So dpreview's test
was only one among others.
...2. When I started searching for 512 MB-CF-cards from several
brands at local and online dealers here in Germany I noticed that
some brands were not available.
...3. Here in Germay, SanDisk usaually is much cheaper than all the
other brands wich are mentioned in dpreview's test (I paid ~$
0.52/MB half year ago; It was much below the german medium price
for 512 MB-CF-highspeed-cards).
Combining these three effects with the possibility to get the card
within 24 hours and a german 10 year warranty was the decisive of
buying THAT card.
I'm satisfied with my SanDisk Ultra 512 MB.
Regards,
Duete
--
Duete
http://www.pbase.com/xpan15
Rick Stipa
Well-known member
I got my G3 this past Monday. On Wednesday I ordered and SanDisk Ultra 512mb card. I'll follow up and let you all know how it works.
PS...The G3 is AWESOME so far.
Best regards.....
PS...The G3 is AWESOME so far.
Best regards.....
Mike, I can not agree.Sandisk, Ultra or otherwise, is the worse card on the market. Look
at the speed tests and you'll see htat this is the only card that
stands uot from the pack as having dramatically worse performance
than any of its competitors, ALL of which are much cheaper.
Buying a CF-Card depends 1. on what you need, 2. on what you can
buy/get and 3. on what you want to pay.
...1. The review here on dpreview shows that SanDisk is not best
choice concerning perfomance an price. I noticed this before I got
my Sandisk for my former S40. BUT there were also several other
(online and paper) (national and international) magazines, which
made perfomance tests with certain digicams and in two of them I
found that especially for the S40 the perfomance of the SanDisk
Ultra was very good, even it was not the best. So dpreview's test
was only one among others.
...2. When I started searching for 512 MB-CF-cards from several
brands at local and online dealers here in Germany I noticed that
some brands were not available.
...3. Here in Germay, SanDisk usaually is much cheaper than all the
other brands wich are mentioned in dpreview's test (I paid ~$
0.52/MB half year ago; It was much below the german medium price
for 512 MB-CF-highspeed-cards).
Combining these three effects with the possibility to get the card
within 24 hours and a german 10 year warranty was the decisive of
buying THAT card.
I'm satisfied with my SanDisk Ultra 512 MB.
Regards,
Duete
--
Duete
http://www.pbase.com/xpan15
Look, the only Sandisk card I have is the one that camer with my G3.
The reason I bash Sandisk is because a) they're all over the palce, especially in local stores where I can't find decent ones liek Kingston or Transcend, b) according to at least two online performance tests, Sandisk STANDS OUT as bing the worst performing brand of all the major and not so major brands tested, and c) on top of everything else, they're about the highest priced brand on the market.
I'm sick and tired of this company flooding the reseller channels with their underperforming and over priced cards, and people buying them because they're so ubiquitous and people don't know any better.
So, every chance I get, I'm gonna bash them because they suck and they're overpriced.
The reason I bash Sandisk is because a) they're all over the palce, especially in local stores where I can't find decent ones liek Kingston or Transcend, b) according to at least two online performance tests, Sandisk STANDS OUT as bing the worst performing brand of all the major and not so major brands tested, and c) on top of everything else, they're about the highest priced brand on the market.
I'm sick and tired of this company flooding the reseller channels with their underperforming and over priced cards, and people buying them because they're so ubiquitous and people don't know any better.
So, every chance I get, I'm gonna bash them because they suck and they're overpriced.
Mike, what are your bad experiences with SanDisk? Considering theSandisk, Ultra or otherwise, is the worse card on the market. Look
at the speed tests and you'll see htat this is the only card that
stands uot from the pack as having dramatically worse performance
than any of its competitors, ALL of which are much cheaper.
fact, that there is no thread on this server with the words SanDisk
and CF in a message that hasn't got a similar reply from you, I
suspect you have had VERY bad experiences with SanDisk CF cards in
the past. I would be truely interested in your first hand
experiences with SanDisk CF cards. Every piece of information is
valuable.
As far as my very limited experience goes, SanDisk is at worst the
"second worst" card on the market. The only other comparison I have
is a store brand card (Hama 256MB). Those 2 cards I owned were most
definitely not any faster than SanDisk (both normal and ultra) in
my G3. They were definitely unuseable with a G3, because they
constantly featured CF card errors and lost pictures.
Please note, that I have no connection to SanDisk whatsoever. It's
just that I can't stand such sweeping statements like "worst card
on the market", which is clearly not the case. Also note, that I
don't claim Hama is the worst brand CF card on the market, those
cards may just have problems to work properly in a G3 and might
work flawlessly with other cameras/products. This may as well be a
problem caused by the G3, who knows ...
Thomas Bantel
If youb can't find any better brands in your area, then that's your bad luck.
But the fact remains that Sandisk is one of the highest priced cards in the US at least, and that they are among the worst performing.
A Transcend, Ridata, or Kingston card will deliver much better performance and much lower price. So long as you have a choice, it is foolish to buy Sandisk.
But the fact remains that Sandisk is one of the highest priced cards in the US at least, and that they are among the worst performing.
A Transcend, Ridata, or Kingston card will deliver much better performance and much lower price. So long as you have a choice, it is foolish to buy Sandisk.
Mike, I can not agree.Sandisk, Ultra or otherwise, is the worse card on the market. Look
at the speed tests and you'll see htat this is the only card that
stands uot from the pack as having dramatically worse performance
than any of its competitors, ALL of which are much cheaper.
Buying a CF-Card depends 1. on what you need, 2. on what you can
buy/get and 3. on what you want to pay.
...1. The review here on dpreview shows that SanDisk is not best
choice concerning perfomance an price. I noticed this before I got
my Sandisk for my former S40. BUT there were also several other
(online and paper) (national and international) magazines, which
made perfomance tests with certain digicams and in two of them I
found that especially for the S40 the perfomance of the SanDisk
Ultra was very good, even it was not the best. So dpreview's test
was only one among others.
...2. When I started searching for 512 MB-CF-cards from several
brands at local and online dealers here in Germany I noticed that
some brands were not available.
...3. Here in Germay, SanDisk usaually is much cheaper than all the
other brands wich are mentioned in dpreview's test (I paid ~$
0.52/MB half year ago; It was much below the german medium price
for 512 MB-CF-highspeed-cards).
Combining these three effects with the possibility to get the card
within 24 hours and a german 10 year warranty was the decisive of
buying THAT card.
I'm satisfied with my SanDisk Ultra 512 MB.
Regards,
Duete
--
Duete
http://www.pbase.com/xpan15
That argument might hold water if the Sandisk cards were cheap, but they're not. SO why pay a high price for a card that will not perform better (and will almost certainly perform worse) tham cheaper cards?Has anyone seen online reviews with consumer cameras? All the
reviews I have seen were on SLRs, which is not exactly applicable
to our cheap cameras. It's like testing tyres for your Golf on a
911Turbo.
Regardless of whether or not your car could use them tot their full potential, would you pay for one of the most expensive tires on the market knowing that in tests on a 911 they performed the worst?
Geez, how much did you pay for this card? And why did you select this brand?
PS...The G3 is AWESOME so far.
Best regards.....
Mike, I can not agree.Sandisk, Ultra or otherwise, is the worse card on the market. Look
at the speed tests and you'll see htat this is the only card that
stands uot from the pack as having dramatically worse performance
than any of its competitors, ALL of which are much cheaper.
Buying a CF-Card depends 1. on what you need, 2. on what you can
buy/get and 3. on what you want to pay.
...1. The review here on dpreview shows that SanDisk is not best
choice concerning perfomance an price. I noticed this before I got
my Sandisk for my former S40. BUT there were also several other
(online and paper) (national and international) magazines, which
made perfomance tests with certain digicams and in two of them I
found that especially for the S40 the perfomance of the SanDisk
Ultra was very good, even it was not the best. So dpreview's test
was only one among others.
...2. When I started searching for 512 MB-CF-cards from several
brands at local and online dealers here in Germany I noticed that
some brands were not available.
...3. Here in Germay, SanDisk usaually is much cheaper than all the
other brands wich are mentioned in dpreview's test (I paid ~$
0.52/MB half year ago; It was much below the german medium price
for 512 MB-CF-highspeed-cards).
Combining these three effects with the possibility to get the card
within 24 hours and a german 10 year warranty was the decisive of
buying THAT card.
I'm satisfied with my SanDisk Ultra 512 MB.
Regards,
Duete
--
Duete
http://www.pbase.com/xpan15
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