Canon lens.

[Agent]

Isn't that the case with most high-street retailers though?

[IBM]

case in point

£49.97
Sandisk 2GB Extreme IV Compactflash Card - Jessops

vs.

£16.31
SanDisk Extreme IV 2 GB CompactFlash Card - Mobile-Blue Stor..

Neither price includes postage. That's because Jessops doesn't offer that particular service, and instead you'd have to go and collect it from a local store.
Or you can get it delivered from Hong Kong through mobile blue for around £4.

It's a hard choice.

[Funkstar]

Or get a 4GB Ultra II from Play.com for £17.99 and free postage

Only a 1D will max out an UltraII

(although yes, I do like my Extreme IV cards. it of a Sandisk whore here)

[Saracen]

......
It's a hard choice.

It's a bit harder than that. I just got a Sandisk Extreme IV CF 4GB for £36.99 (4GB, not 2GB) ..... from a High Street specialist camera store, about a mile from where I live, rather than having to order from a place half-way round the planet .... and hope that what arrives isn't a Sandisk fake.

[IBM]

Can I have the details of that store please. Need to get my hands on a 4Gb...

[shiato storm]

Or get a 4GB Ultra II from Play.com for £17.99 and free postage

Only a 1D will max out an UltraII

(although yes, I do like my Extreme IV cards. it of a Sandisk whore here)

essentially thats correct, many consumer cameras simply don't have the high data transfer rate to take advantage of the 'extreme' speeds. that said they're built to last and who can argue with the prices at the mo?

[Bobster]

i picked up 18 4GB Sandisk Extreme III's the other day for 18.20 ea inc P+P

[shiato storm]

18 ?!!! erm... say whaaaaaaa

[Funkstar]

exactly what I was thinking!

[Bobster]

18 ?!!! erm... say whaaaaaaa

oh yes 72GB right here!


they weren't all for me, i had 4..

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Why?

[Funkstar]

oh yes 72GB right here!

Well, actually, only 68.4GB, but who's counting really?

[mmh]

oh yes 72GB right here!


they weren't all for me, i had 4..

not thought to go non-solidstate?

i.e. MP3 Photobank: Unique MP3 Player/ Digital Photo Bank 40GB type thing?

[Saracen]

not thought to go non-solidstate?

i.e. MP3 Photobank: Unique MP3 Player/ Digital Photo Bank 40GB type thing?

He may be a belt-and-braces man. I certainly am. On rare occasions, literally .... but that's probably too much info.

I use my Creative Labs MP3 player like that .... well, sort-of. I copy from card-in-camera to MP3 player.

But then I take the card out and use a fresh card. If you're doing something where the photos are important (such as a wedding), many people will take the view that they keep photos and duplicates wherever possible. I don't erase cards with important (perhaps irreplaceable) shots until I KNOW that I have them safely copied and archived.

After all, if you copy the contents of several cards in a wedding shoot to the HD in an MP3 player, and that HD then fails ..... you're royally screwed.

[Funkstar]

And if photography is your business then 4x £18 is nothing compaired to the cost of your other equipment

[Saracen]

And if photography is your business then 4x £18 is nothing compaired to the cost of your other equipment

Precisely.

When I had my graduation photo done, the tog that did it had something go wrong. Precisely what, I don't know. Camera fault resulting in underexposure, exhausted chemicals leading to faulty processing, wrong temps on developer? Dunno.

But the result was lousy photos .... for several hundred students.

The photographer concerned then spent a good part of the next several months driving all over the country to the homes of those with ruined photos, redoing them .... at his expense. The alternative, presumably, was to face the ire of all those students (and parents thereof) .... and loss of the franchise from the Uni.

I shudder to think what it cost him in both time and travel costs.


Ergo .... my belt-and-braces philosophy for important pictures.