Memory prices at warehouseexpress.com

[james]

Just had the newsletter through on email and i was supprised to see the prices of the sandisc memroy.
Sandisk ULTRA II CF Card 4GB £39.99
1GB CARD £14:99

The newer memory was cheap aswell.
May be worth a look

[Chris Hawkins]

At focus (Jacobs) I bought an Extreme III 8Gb for £85 - absolutely thrilled with it. Already got in the habit of not taking any spare cards out with me. That's nearly 900 compressed RAW!!

[simonkit]

Even cheaper:

http://www.picstop.co.uk


Delivery is lighting fast too, received my CF card within 2 days

simon

[james]

Had a look at that site. I have 5 1gb extreme II cards but was tempted to get more at those prices. Dont know if i can justify the spend though.

[england1965]

That's nearly 900 compressed RAW!!


That's a lot of pictures ....to lose in one go!?

[george.monaghan]

Even cheaper:

http://www.picstop.co.uk


Delivery is lighting fast too, received my CF card within 2 days

simon


Just bought an 8GB Lexar at a truly excellent price - thanks. :icon_nice

[Chris Hawkins]

That's a lot of pictures ....to lose in one go!?

Yes it is Mark and it's a good point, but you've got to have faith in your equipment - that's why I use Nikon pro equipment and genuine Sandisk Extreme cards. I might only take 200 shots at a wedding on a 2Gb card and lose that. I'd rather trust to expensive proven technology rather than spread the risk across cheaper brands.

[tonymidd]

Yes it is Mark and it's a good point, but you've got to have faith in your equipment - that's why I use Nikon pro equipment and genuine Sandisk Extreme cards. I might only take 200 shots at a wedding on a 2Gb card and lose that. I'd rather trust to expensive proven technology rather than spread the risk across cheaper brands.

And that's why I use 1 & 2 gig branded cards, mainly Kingston and Dane-Electric. Ironically the only card I've ever had a problem with was a Scandisk 1 gig SD in the Leica and that was due to it being stressed by being bent when taking it out of the camera.
I do wonder at the life span of a card, I seen to remember Dane quoting 10,000 rewrites. That's a 27+ year life span using the card and clearing it every day. Same applies to a sensor, they must have a finite life span. It'd be great to turn up for a shoot to find the sensors packed in, you can't just pop a new one in like you could a film :stir::stir::)

[robbie-doux]

I was mooching round Amazon today and saw Sandisk Extreme II or III (not usre which) 2 gig cards for about £19 - not from Amazon, but from one of their marketplace partners. Seemed quite cheap to me.

[Deus]

And that's why I use 1 & 2 gig branded cards, mainly Kingston and Dane-Electric. Ironically the only card I've ever had a problem with was a Scandisk 1 gig SD in the Leica and that was due to it being stressed by being bent when taking it out of the camera.
I do wonder at the life span of a card, I seen to remember Dane quoting 10,000 rewrites. That's a 27+ year life span using the card and clearing it every day. Same applies to a sensor, they must have a finite life span. It'd be great to turn up for a shoot to find the sensors packed in, you can't just pop a new one in like you could a film :stir::stir::)

and that's why I dump on site my cards onto my portable hard drive thingy so that I already have a backup, just in case.. :)

[MickT]

Even cheaper:

http://www.picstop.co.uk


Delivery is lighting fast too, received my CF card within 2 days

simon

Cheers for this - just ordered 3 x 2GB Ultra II's for £50 inc p&p!
Mick.

[DarrenC]

Play.com have some good prices for CF cards, with free delivery too....

eg
SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash 8GB - £59
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/1112113/SanDisk-Extreme-III-CompactFlash-8GB/Product.html

or

SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash 4GB - 27.99
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/880501/SanDisk-Extreme-III-CompactFlash-4GB/Product.html

or if you want Extreme 4:

SanDisk 4GB Compact Flash Extreme IV Card - £37.99
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/3593371/SanDisk-4GB-Compact-Flash-Extreme-IV-Card/Product.html

Cheers, Darren.

[jimbo2112]

http://www.picstop.co.uk/Compact-Flash-CF/SanDisk-Extreme-III-CompactFlash---4GB

Wow! I just spent £37 on one of these and I thought that was cheap! Dare I ask if everyone if they know these are genuine? We all know how much rubbish there is on the net ...

[Ade]

7dayShop have 16Gb! Sandisk cards for £88!

[kevrayner]

not sure i wanna trust all my images in a 16gb card

i use sandisk 2gb III cards

kev

[tonymidd]

http://www.picstop.co.uk/Compact-Flash-CF/SanDisk-Extreme-III-CompactFlash---4GB

Wow! I just spent £37 on one of these and I thought that was cheap! Dare I ask if everyone if they know these are genuine? We all know how much rubbish there is on the net ...

this should help you check if you've the real thing.....

http://martybugs.net/articles/fakesandisk.cgi

[copycat]

I use 2gb CF Sandisk cards. Anybody know what the biggest my 20d and 300d will take?