I hope this is the right place to post this question. I am getting one of the new XTi's and it says they are compatitable with CompactFlash (Type I & II). So I should not wory about the III's or Iv's as they would not work in the camera? Are there differences in CF cards...some faster than others etc?
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I've been using my XTi for a week (very pleased, and bought the 17-85 IS lens).
I have a SanDisk Ultra II 2 GB, and an Extreme III 2 GB CF card.
If you're going to shoot RAW format, I'd suggest at least the 2GB size that will hold about 100 images. If just jpeg, it'll hold about 400 to 500.
The speed difference between Ultra and Extreme only seems apparent when shooting bursts such as bracketing with RAW mode. After shooting a burst of three in RAW+L mode, it takes about 6.7 seconds for the Ultra II to finish writing to the card, and 5.2 seconds for the Extreme III to finish writing.
You can take more shots while it's writing, I don't know when the camera eventually fills up it's buffer and has to pause.
An Ultra II card will probably be fine, that's what I'd choose.