Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Beginner's Questions => Topic started by: NancyP on September 17, 2014, 03:14:13 pm
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I am thinking seriously about buying the Canon 7D2 for an upgraded birding and action camera. I haven't owned a camera taking CF cards before. Suggestions for card brand and for a CF reader that uses/back-compatible with USB 2.0 or Firewire 800? (OK, don't laugh, maybe I ought to be upgrading my 4 year old MacBookPro instead) :-\
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I am thinking seriously about buying the Canon 7D2 for an upgraded birding and action camera. I haven't owned a camera taking CF cards before. Suggestions for card brand and for a CF reader that uses/back-compatible with USB 2.0 or Firewire 800? (OK, don't laugh, maybe I ought to be upgrading my 4 year old MacBookPro instead) :-\
you can use SD slot, unless you want to write to 2 card at once... even in that case there are SD to CF adapters... unless you want to have a zoo of cards
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Hi Nancy,
I have used SanDisk, Lexar and Transcend for over ten years without a failure.
My card reader is a Delkin Devices USB reader that I use with the laptop and I have a built in reader in my HP desktop.
Both work fine. USB 3 readers are backward compatible with USB 2 connection.
HTH
Rich
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My colleagues and I have had numerous card failures with Sandisk (CR, SD and mSD) and Sandisk's attitude was tough shit, go away.
Had a Lexar fail and Lexar made sure card was replaced and the data recovered.
I also use Hooman Raw cards which are far more expensive, but they claim 100% reliability.
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I used the Lexar USB 3 reader now for around 2 years. This one reads CF or the SD cards. So far no issues. Reader will work with either a USB3 or 2 connection.
Model number is LRW300U
Here is a link to the latest version from B&H.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/845797-REG/Lexar_LRW307URBNA_Professional_USB_3_0_Dual_Slot.html (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/845797-REG/Lexar_LRW307URBNA_Professional_USB_3_0_Dual_Slot.html)
Paul
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I used the Lexar USB 3 reader now for around 2 years. This one reads CF or the SD cards. So far no issues. Reader will work with either a USB3 or 2 connection.
Model number is LRW300U
Here is a link to the latest version from B&H.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/845797-REG/Lexar_LRW307URBNA_Professional_USB_3_0_Dual_Slot.html (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/845797-REG/Lexar_LRW307URBNA_Professional_USB_3_0_Dual_Slot.html)
Paul
I second this suggestion of the Lexar Professional card reader. It is well worth the little bit of extra cost over a cheaper reader. As far as cards go, I have never had a problem with SanDisk, Lexar or Transcend cards. I only had a problem with a Transcend USB 3 card reader that was not compatible with 32gb Transcend CF cards...it worked great with other cards, but not their own cards. So I can not recommend a Transcend card reader.
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The reason to consider CF over SD is the supposed 50% greater maximum write speed for bursts (SD 95 MB vs CF 150 MB/sec in best available cards) for shooting with the upcoming Canon 7D2 at 10 fps. For landscape work, any old class 6 SD card will do ;) - just plug it into the reader and go make tea......
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The reason to consider CF over SD is the supposed 50% greater maximum write speed for bursts (SD 95 MB vs CF 150 MB/sec in best available cards)
not really
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/12/sandisk-u3-sdxc-card/
"... The card supports a 250MB/s write speed ..."
it is another story what the system (camera) really can write, but SD cards are not the bottleneck there.