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I want to get a 32mb compact flash card for my 850.
Are all compact flash cards created equal?

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SANDISK,
SIMPLE TECHNOLOGIES,
LEXAR,
GENERIC
VIKING
POLAROID
KINGSTON
and others,

prices for 32mb start at about $75.

what is an "adapter" or "cable" that comes with some?

Thanks,

Brian
 
I just bought one of these myself. D-store.com has a page that compares some of the features of various cards:
http://www.d-store.com/d-store/product/mt-vik.htm

I bought a 32mb Microtech card from Buy.com for about $75. I was expecting to get about 48 pictures using quality, but it went up to 60! Very cool.

Cables and adapters? Don't need 'em. We have USB.
brian murphy said:
I want to get a 32mb compact flash card for my 850.
Are all compact flash cards created equal?

pricewatch lists
SANDISK,
SIMPLE TECHNOLOGIES,
LEXAR,
GENERIC
VIKING
POLAROID
KINGSTON
and others,

prices for 32mb start at about $75.

what is an "adapter" or "cable" that comes with some?

Thanks,

Brian
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Earlier response is correct--USB. However, the adapter referes to a CF-to-PC card adapter, so with a laptop (primarily), you put CF card in the adapter & then directly into pc.
brian murphy said:
I want to get a 32mb compact flash card for my 850.
Are all compact flash cards created equal?

pricewatch lists
SANDISK,
SIMPLE TECHNOLOGIES,
LEXAR,
GENERIC
VIKING
POLAROID
KINGSTON
and others,

prices for 32mb start at about $75.

what is an "adapter" or "cable" that comes with some?

Thanks,

Brian
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Thanks, that web page was very informative about CF cards. Their prices vary a lot for 32MB cards.

What brand did you buy? Can you tell if it's processing time is any different than the 8mb epson card that came with the 850?

Can anyone say that an aftermarket CF card has performed any different than the one that came with their camera?

An adapter might help me since I use an older Dell notebook that does not have USB.

Thanks,

Brian
Brian Pianalto said:
I bought a 32mb Microtech card from Buy.com for about $75. I was
expecting to get about 48 pictures using quality, but it went up to
60! Very cool.

Cables and adapters? Don't need 'em. We have USB.
brian murphy said:
I want to get a 32mb compact flash card for my 850.
Are all compact flash cards created equal?

pricewatch lists
SANDISK,
SIMPLE TECHNOLOGIES,
LEXAR,
GENERIC
VIKING
POLAROID
KINGSTON
and others,

prices for 32mb start at about $75.

what is an "adapter" or "cable" that comes with some?

Thanks,

Brian
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In the amount of time that it takes to save a picture, there isn't going to be any noticeable difference in the amount of writing time. Go for any of the major brands and a good price. I wouldn't trust one named generic. Wait till after the weekend, around tuesday to order. Prices will come back down from the current hiked up ones.
brian murphy said:
I want to get a 32mb compact flash card for my 850.
Are all compact flash cards created equal?

pricewatch lists
SANDISK,
SIMPLE TECHNOLOGIES,
LEXAR,
GENERIC
VIKING
POLAROID
KINGSTON
and others,

prices for 32mb start at about $75.

what is an "adapter" or "cable" that comes with some?

Thanks,

Brian
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Brian,

I have had very good luck with a Sandisk 40 MB card. I have a powerbook with a PCMCIA slot, so I bought the CF card adapter. Downloading is very fast!! I have used the Sandisk for about 5 months (on an Epson 750z, and now on my new 850z). I have taken approximately 2000 shots and haven't had any problems.

Get the largest (MB) card you can afford. The 40 MB card holds almost 600 shots at the lowest quality and 56 at the highest quality.

Cris
brian murphy said:
What brand did you buy? Can you tell if it's processing time is any
different than the 8mb epson card that came with the 850?

Can anyone say that an aftermarket CF card has performed any different
than the one that came with their camera?

An adapter might help me since I use an older Dell notebook that does not
have USB.

Thanks,

Brian
Brian Pianalto said:
I bought a 32mb Microtech card from Buy.com for about $75. I was
expecting to get about 48 pictures using quality, but it went up to
60! Very cool.

Cables and adapters? Don't need 'em. We have USB.
brian murphy said:
I want to get a 32mb compact flash card for my 850.
Are all compact flash cards created equal?

pricewatch lists
SANDISK,
SIMPLE TECHNOLOGIES,
LEXAR,
GENERIC
VIKING
POLAROID
KINGSTON
and others,

prices for 32mb start at about $75.

what is an "adapter" or "cable" that comes with some?

Thanks,

Brian
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Thanks, Tom, that's a great piece of work you did comparing CF's.

The choice of CF card seems to definitely make a difference. I think due to the particular on-board controller in the card. The Hitachi C-4 controller seems to always be on the fastest cards in other places I've read about CF speed.

And now it's good to now know that this difference does indeed show up when using the 850z.

Do you know anything of the pedigree of the controller of the cards you tested?

Also, thanks for teaching me that I can "reference" another post by getting its URL from the Properties dialog. I assume that's how you got it.

Thanks,

Brian
Tom Monico said:
Brian,

Take a look at this post. I have the 850 also.

http://photo.askey.net/forums/read.asp?forum=1001&message=86605

Tom
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I got the 32mb Microtech card based on the C4 controller chip. It's the most expensive 32mb card at d-store.com, but at buy.com it was roughly the same price as the others. Now all this talk about how fast a card is to write/format may all be moot. After all the 850z doesn't have uncompressed TIFF so the biggest file you will write if you use (not iterpolated) will be 600K. That's piddly. A bigger concern is that some of the cards don't format well with the 850z. I think I read something on this forum about the Kensington cards being that way, but double check on that.

Bottom line, get the most mb you can afford, you probably won't go wrong with any of the main manufacturers. Personally, 30-40 mb is a nice sweet spot since you can get 50-80 shots off of one card. Add in the 8mb card that came with the camera and you're close to 90 shots, the equivalent of 3 or 4 rolls of film. 64mb or higher seems like overkill. I shot 4 rolls on a vacation once, but a lot of those were throw-aways. 80 shots should cover you for most circumstances.
brian murphy said:
Thanks, that web page was very informative about CF cards. Their prices
vary a lot for 32MB cards.

What brand did you buy? Can you tell if it's processing time is any
different than the 8mb epson card that came with the 850?

Can anyone say that an aftermarket CF card has performed any different
than the one that came with their camera?

An adapter might help me since I use an older Dell notebook that does not
have USB.

Thanks,

Brian
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I'm not sure which controller the cards used. I think it would be nice Phil and his associates might exapnd their reviews to include CF media, since there does appear to be differences. I wonder if CF media performs the same in all cameras.

Using the properties dialog is one way to get the URL. I just copied it from the address bar of my browser (IE).

Tom
Brian Murphy said:
The choice of CF card seems to definitely make a difference. I think due
to the particular on-board controller in the card. The Hitachi C-4
controller seems to always be on the fastest cards in other places I've
read about CF speed.

And now it's good to now know that this difference does indeed show up
when using the 850z.

Do you know anything of the pedigree of the controller of the cards you
tested?

Also, thanks for teaching me that I can "reference" another post by
getting its URL from the Properties dialog. I assume that's how you got
it.

Thanks,

Brian
Tom Monico said:
Brian,

Take a look at this post. I have the 850 also.

http://photo.askey.net/forums/read.asp?forum=1001&message=86605

Tom
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I had a problem with a Kingston card. The 850 would reset itself when I hit half the capacity of the card. Talking to another forum participant, he said that Kingston stated that they had a problem with some of their 32meg cards and they suggested he return it for replacement.

I returned my Kingston as well, but to avoid getting another faulty card I went with Lexar which is one of the brands mentioned in the 850Z docs.

Tom
Brian Pianalto said:
Bottom line, get the most mb you can afford, you probably won't go wrong
with any of the main manufacturers. Personally, 30-40 mb is a nice sweet
spot since you can get 50-80 shots off of one card. Add in the 8mb
card that came with the camera and you're close to 90 shots, the
equivalent of 3 or 4 rolls of film. 64mb or higher seems like overkill. I
shot 4 rolls on a vacation once, but a lot of those were throw-aways. 80
shots should cover you for most circumstances.
brian murphy said:
Thanks, that web page was very informative about CF cards. Their prices
vary a lot for 32MB cards.

What brand did you buy? Can you tell if it's processing time is any
different than the 8mb epson card that came with the 850?

Can anyone say that an aftermarket CF card has performed any different
than the one that came with their camera?

An adapter might help me since I use an older Dell notebook that does not
have USB.

Thanks,

Brian
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I agree that 30-40 meg is the sweet spot. I doubt that my batteries would last long enough to fill a 64MB card.

If you check Tom's timing test at
http://photo.askey.net/forums/read.asp?forum=1001&message=86605

you'll see that ...

Epson 8 meg CF card supplied with camera: 3.4 secs
32 meg Kingston CF card: 4.5 secs
64 meg Lexar CF card: 4.0

That was probably w/o the flash being involved.
I'd rather avoid adding more seconds to the processing time, if possible.

Brian
Brian Pianalto said:
Bottom line, get the most mb you can afford, you probably won't go wrong
with any of the main manufacturers. Personally, 30-40 mb is a nice sweet
spot since you can get 50-80 shots off of one card. Add in the 8mb
card that came with the camera and you're close to 90 shots, the
equivalent of 3 or 4 rolls of film. 64mb or higher seems like overkill. I
shot 4 rolls on a vacation once, but a lot of those were throw-aways. 80
shots should cover you for most circumstances.
brian murphy said:
Thanks, that web page was very informative about CF cards. Their prices
vary a lot for 32MB cards.

What brand did you buy? Can you tell if it's processing time is any
different than the 8mb epson card that came with the 850?

Can anyone say that an aftermarket CF card has performed any different
than the one that came with their camera?

An adapter might help me since I use an older Dell notebook that does not
have USB.

Thanks,

Brian
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