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Compact Flash: Looking for the best product at the best price

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LordRaiden

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I'm currently looking to get myself either a 512mb or a 1gb compact flash card (*yeah, I'm just too darned lazy to swap flash cards or empty them. hehe*) for general use. I've got several devices that all use the same type of compact flash card, so a standard compact flash card will do.

I'm looking for what is the best possible compact flash card I can get for a good low price. I don't want to pay a lot, but at the same time I want at least some semblence of quality so that the dumb thing doesn't buy the farm 2 months after I buy it. I've been over to pricewatch already, but that really hasn't been a whole lot of help since they're listing several brands. So, pipe in with what you believe is the best choice for me to get. I'm most definately interested. Thanks.
 
i should get a 512 for mardi gras... take videos with the s40... though... i wonder if i should take it?
 
Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Ok, I'm going to employ my stupid card here. What's a micro drive?
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Microdrive is an actual hard drive in a form of a typeII CF card. It has an actual spinning platter inside, which will drain your batteries faster then a convential CF card. On the upside, 512mb and 1gig microdrives will cost you MUCH LESS then comparable size CF cards.
 
OH! One of those! Yeah, I heard about those a while back but didn't know that they were actually for sale already. Wow. That does sound like a good idea. Much better than the compact flash card. One question. Obviously this drive is no thicker than a standard flash card. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that these also come with some kind of adapter or some sort that allows them to double as a flash card?
 
Originally posted by: MaxDSP
Originally posted by: ElFenix
i should get a 512 for mardi gras... take videos with the s40... though... i wonder if i should take it?
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im gonna be at mardi gras too...😀
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we should have an AT mardi gras meet at acme or along the parade route or something
 
Originally posted by: MaxDSP
Originally posted by: ElFenix i should get a 512 for mardi gras... take videos with the s40... though... i wonder if i should take it?
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im gonna be at mardi gras too...😀
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Can ya send me some good pictures...if you know what I mean 😉

Ausm
 
Are microdrives only compatible in cameras that take type II cf cards?
My Canon s230 i believe just accepts CF type I. I guess I cannot use a micro drive with it.
 
yep, you definitly need cf type II to use these (they're slightly larger then type1)

BTW: I too am going to be at Mardi Gras 😀 maybe a meet should be in order...
 
Mine can theoretically support 2gig of flash. I state theoretically cause there's nobody that has a 2 gig card yet to test this against.
 
I have two 512mb Ridata cards. They outperform pretty much anything out there, even Lexar, and can be had for under $200 each. I'd get more if I were shopping for CF, and I probably will soon. Ridata and Ritech are made by the same company, soif you find a good deal on either one it's the same card.
 
Originally posted by: MrPhelps
Can your camera even use 512??? or bigger?? some can't expand over 128. 🙂
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Wait, with cf the bios is written on the card itself, right? so shouldn't the only imitation be the cards that physically slide into it? At least, I thought this was the whole reason behind cf being infinitely expandable whereas smart media had the bios built into the device
 
I'll throw out another vote for the 1 GB IBM Microdrive. I have one for my PDA, and it works great. The PC Card adapter that it came with makes it really easy to load files from my laptop, too!
 
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