4 gig ultra 2 for 136, heads up

[timmciglobal]

Crossposting something just because ALL of canons slr's use CF and raws take up ton of space and shooting raw = good...


Dell Home Sandisk 4 GB Ultra II CompactFlash Card for $125.28 or $139.20 + Free Shipping (List Price:$199.99)

# Click Here and add to cart for $199.99 - 20% Instant Off - $20 off $150 Coupon B0FT?4NVX46RCH (Ends 4/20 or 7k Uses) =$139.20 + Free Shipping
# There is also 10% Rebate from Sandisk. If you get Rebate, your final price will be $139.20 - 10% Rebate(Ends 4/30) = $125.28 + Free Shipping


Insane Deal.

taken from dealsofamerica.com

Tim

[kvdnberg]

That is good.. Two dutch internet stores that have good prices have these for 188 and 195 euro ($228 and $239)... and Dell.nl doesn't carry these :mad:

[cdifoto]

Excellent price. Too bad I don't actually need any more memory.

[DonSchap]

to lose if your card goes up in smoke.

Just for fun, how much are 2x 2GB CFs? I know its a "real pain" :rolleyes: to just pop one of these out of the camera and quickly change it with another.

I am so paranoid about my own 2GB CF crashing, I empty it after EVERY shoot, just to have a backup and room for the next one. I hate losing work. Some shots you will never be able to take again... you know: Grandpa's last hang glide... the sinking of the Titanic (oops, sorry.. that's on DVD, now, isn't it? )... Billy Bob's surfin' accident, out there in Hula-Land... well, you kind of get the picture... or did you?

Hmmm... better check that CF, again... and download it, this time. :D

[cdifoto]

to lose if your card goes up in smoke.

Just for fun, how much are 2x 2GB CFs? I know its a "real pain" :rolleyes: to just pop one of these out of the camera and quickly change it with another.

I am so paranoid about my own 2GB CF crashing, I empty it after EVERY shoot, just to have a backup and room for the next one. I hate losing work. Some shots you will never be able to take again... you know: Grandpa's last hang glide... the sinking of the Titanic (oops, sorry.. that's on DVD, now, isn't it? )... Billy Bob's surfin' accident, out there in Hula-Land... well, you kind of get the picture... or did you?

Hmmm... better check that CF, again... and download it, this time. :D

I have a 4GB card and don't feel any more paranoid about using it than the 2GB cards I have. If I'm gonna lose pics, 250 on a 2GB is just as devastating as 500 on a 4GB. It's still a lot of pics to lose. Chances of it are slim enough that I don't worry.

[kvdnberg]

I've got the same philosophy. I'd rather buy 2 cards of half the capacity I need than one with all of it. That way you always have a backup. When I first got my G2 I had some errors with Dane Elec cards. Could always recover them using recovery software but you can't really use the card until you have.

[cdifoto]

I've got the same philosophy. I'd rather buy 2 cards of half the capacity I need than one with all of it. That way you always have a backup. When I first got my G2 I had some errors with Dane Elec cards. Could always recover them using recovery software but you can't really use the card until you have.


So buy 2 4GB cards! :D :p

[noyjimi]

Score another one for shooting raw; you'll lose "less" photos than jpg when the full card fails. :p

On a more serious note, anyone using a FlashTrax XT or Epson P-2000? Or maybe an Apple iPod with a reader.

[DonSchap]

I have a P-2000 thread posting on the General Digital Photography Chat... concerning the use or popularity of just such an instrument. As you noted, there seem to be several out there.

I also found a picture frame that kind of does the same kind of thing, with a bigger display... but no HD storage, for a carload less money! It even comes with a remote!

Check it out:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3406309

[kvdnberg]

Score another one for shooting raw; you'll lose "less" photos than jpg when the full card fails. :p

On a more serious note, anyone using a FlashTrax XT or Epson P-2000? Or maybe an Apple iPod with a reader.

I have an Archos multimedia jukebox from years ago. 20GB, comes with a compactflash adapter. Used it in the London Zoo when cards got full. Peeves: the modified date becomes the transfer date instead of the photo's creation date when you use the adapter and it's USB1.1 (2.0 requires an additional adapter which I don't have). I'm considering getting something new, though it'll do at times. Should check for FW update....
Edit: Yay! Looks like the FW update of dec 2003 fixed the date change problem! Now it's just speed that's limiting. I can live with that. This puppy is going to get a place in my gear bag :D

[suemccartin]

The 2 gig cards are like 80 bucks right now, I bought one from dell before I saw the sale on the 4 gig. I've never had a "whole card" failure with a sandisk or a lexar cf card. Usually it's just one bad bit and you lose a few frames but I know a massive failure is something that can happen. At full quality i get like 140 shots on a 2 gig card; I'd cry if I lost even that many, probably commit sepacu (ritual suicide) if I lost almost 300 on a 4 gig card.

Like somebody said, get a digital wallet and offload your pictures, what I do when I'm shooting a lot is pop the full one in the wallet and a smaller 1 gig in the camera while it's offloading, then when/if the one gig gets full I pop it in the wallet and go back to the bigger card, works well. The only problem I've found with wallets is that often, if a error is encountered it'll stop offloading at that spot and won't get all the shots off the card even though there are plenty more that are fine--depends on the quality of the firmware on the wallet. I've gotten in the habbit of error checking my cards in the desktop before I go on a big shoot; hasn't happened since I started doing this regularly.