4 GB compactflash cards

[JDArt]

There appears to have been a drastic price drop for these cards, in the neighborhood of 50%, with top cards selling for $189 or so.

Stock is low currently, but still: worth watching.

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_a...ash&rd=1&skd=1

[RobAmy]

Thanks for the tip

[JDArt]

The question becomes what do you do with your old compactflash cards as time rolls on? I have 256MB cards hanging around. They're practically worthless on ebay. I'm sure at one time they went for $400 a pop.

[bevilaquafoto]

The only thing that makes me a little nervous about a 4BG card is that if you put an entire shoot on it, and the card gets corrupted, you've lost everything! I feel a little safer having the job spread around on 4 or 5 1 GB cards. I have not actually had a problem with a CF card before, however. Maybe my worry comes from my old 1 GB microdrive which was far more delicate.

[JDArt]

I've never had problems with a CF card, either. I'll accept the risk over the inconvenience of having to swap cards -- always, of course, right when you don't want to.

[mikej]

I would rather not have to swap cards any more than I have to when shooting as well. Especially since I shoot in raw and even my 1 gig cards don't get a lot of images on them anymore. So I wouldn't mind getting a 4 gig card.

What I do with the smaller CF cards is use them in the USB thumb drives. I have a couple that have a slot that I can use a CF card with rather than having the disk space built into it.

Mike

[JDArt]

Recent prices for in-stock Sandisk:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...x=8&Submit.y=7

[JDArt]

Originally Posted by Mike Jordan

What I do with the smaller CF cards is use them in the USB thumb drives. I have a couple that have a slot that I can use a CF card with rather than having the disk space built into it.

Mike

Can you give me some names or links to these drives?

[Mr. Pickles]

I use old CF card in my Card Reader, connected to the computer with a USB. Any card reader should work. I don't know of a thumb drive that does this...

I have TWO cards crap out on me. Both og them just died, and had to be replaced. Both times a MicroDrive saved me. One of the CF cards died after I took three shots inot a double header softball tourney game. Hello MicroDrive

[mikej]

The one I have is round with a CF slot in it. I got it free with the one Lexar 512 meg card that I bought. Here are some examples of others. The last one is closer to what mine looks like but mine has a little USB pig tail that comes out one end. I used it quit a bit to transfer data, files and drivers from my computer to the workstations where I work. Then I bought a couple of 1 gig thumbnail drives so mine wasn't tied up all the time.


http://www.shopxtreme.com/catalog/us...iter-p-63.html
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=172282
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Viewprodu...es+and+Readers
http://www.pcmall.com/pcmall/shop/de...pno~964296.asp

Mike