Re: Which card size is best?

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:16:43 +0000, Donald Gray
<donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:47:16 -0500, "SimonLW" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>[]
>>I have not lost an image to a failed card yet. I've used CF, smart media and
>>xD. However, I know people who lost images including a friend who lost 70 or
>>so shots (recovered 7) from vacation. I still split up my images among
>>cards. Perhaps not the best for a rapid shooting pro, but good for me.
>[]
>
>for what its worth, in something like 15~20,000 shots in the last 2
>years, I have only lost half a frame. I don't know if it was a CF or
>camera write fault - but thats it.. I wpuld judge reliability to be a
>very high factor.
>
>I have a 512 SanDisk, a 512 Lexar, a 128 Maxwell and a whopping great
>32Mb Nikon CF card....
>
>Side note: After spending out a shed load of cash on an expensive
>camera, why do manufaturers supply a piddling little CF card?

Probably the same reason that printer manufacturers sell
printers with "starter" ink cartridges which have to be replaced after
fifty pages. Maybe they can get them dirt cheap when they're no longer
in common use. Or it may be the "United Airlines saved $22M (or
somesuch) per year by eliminating one olive from the in-flight salads"
syndrome.

> (I note
>that many supply shops are countering this with 'bundled' 1Gb cards
>etc, but you still have to pay a higher price for the so called
>bundle!)

.

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