Compact Flash cards

[ARD]

OK the exact card Karl recommended was the Elite which is selling for $50 (2 gig) on buy.com:

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=...omp&dcaid=17379

That's after rebate.
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I use Kingston, they are the biggest manufacturer of memory on the planet, but only recently went retail.

[Ray]

I remember an incident reported on the net some years ago. A photographer was assigned the project of photographing the demolition of a tall building. Wanting the most spectacular shots he could get, he positioned his tripod and camera as close as possible to the building, but perhaps too close for personal safety, and used a cordless remote to trigger the shutter, camera in continuous mode.

Apparently, he got shots of the debris hurtling towards the camera right up to the point the debris destroyed the camera. It looked like a wasted effort. On visiting the scene afterwards, the camera was clearly a gonner. No hope of repair. The flash card, however, was found lying on the ground a few metres away. The images were retrieved perfectly.

It was a Sandisk   .

[ARD]

I remember an incident reported on the net some years ago. A photographer was assigned the project of photographing the demolition of a tall building. Wanting the most spectacular shots he could get, he positioned his tripod and camera as close as possible to the building, but perhaps too close for personal safety, and used a cordless remote to trigger the shutter, camera in continuous mode.

Apparently, he got shots of the debris hurtling towards the camera right up to the point the debris destroyed the camera. It looked like a wasted effort. On visiting the scene afterwards, the camera was clearly a gonner. No hope of repair. The flash card, however, was found lying on the ground a few metres away. The images were retrieved perfectly.

It was a Sandisk   .
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Impressive

[benInMA]

The speed really doesn't matter a whole lot with the 5D unless you are doing something odd like shooting sports in RAW mode.

I have several fast cards + a slow microdrive.  For 99% of shooting there is no difference, as in Jpeg mode the 5D buffer is 60+ images.   How often do you stick your camera in motordrive and hold the shutter down for 20 seconds or more?

I've never done that, hence I am not going to lose any sleep over having the fastest cards.

I don't think the 5D can actually take advantage of 150x cards and such, it just can't write to the card that fast.  It's just like anything else with electronics... you can't fill a bathtub very quickly with an eyedropper.

[Nill Toulme]

Impressive
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Even more impressive — and heartbreaking — was [a href=\"http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart_intro.htm]Bill Biggart's[/url] microdrive surviving the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.

Nill
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[ARD]

Even more impressive — and heartbreaking — was Bill Biggart's microdrive surviving the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.

Nill
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Another unsung hero of the terrible events of 9/11, his bravery in bringing the world pictures cost him his life

[narikin]

guide to spotting counterfeit CF cards:

http://reviews.ebay.com/FAKE-SanDisk-Extre...000000001456539

fake SD cards

http://reviews.ebay.com/How-to-spot-fake-S...T:-1:LISTINGS:1

beware! there's a lot of counterfeit stuff out there, all brands, all sizes, all types.