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scottatwittenberg

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i am wondering what the verdict is on cf cards.. i am thinking of getting something for my canon a60.. maybe a 256 or 512 mb.. i hear that lexar is good, and i assume that kingston is.. but i guess that cards have different speeds and such.. therefore you can get a sandisk ultra, or kingston elite? things like that.. but aren't lexars supposedly equal to those? i think that my mom's simple tech is faster than her san disk, it just feels faster.. but sandisk seems to be the most popular ones i see...

so what cf card to people reccomend and why?

thanks

scott
 
The only advantage for a higher speed cf card is when taking alot of burst shots (if ur camera supports it) and also high mega pixel pics and on one or two cameras if u can save in high res for movies like my Canon S1 does. If u do the highest 640x480 @ 30 fps and the card is slow it'll get a error. I used to have a sandisk ultra ii but found a nice nugget. Newegg has these "ritek" (maybe ridata) cards that are like 52x and are WAY cheaper then the ultra ii sandisks and perform about the same according to reviews and with my own personal use.
 
For a 2 megapixel non-SLR digital camera I don't think you need to be so concerned about speed, especially if you're not trying to do anything extravagant with the camera (it's a 2mp camera, I don't see what kind of extravagance you can suck out of it). My advice is to get something with as much space you need, and don't waste your money on a super fast card... because you really don't need it with a camera like that. The benefits aren't worth the extra cost in a camera like that.
Lexar and Sandisk are of course good names, but there isn't much telling me that names matter a whole lot when it comes to CF cards and 2 megapixel cameras.
 
I got a Sandisk Ultra 512 MB for my Canon S60. I chose it after reading some peoples comments from a digicam forum and the verdict seemed that Sandisk produces some of the most trouble free cards so I chose that.
 
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