 Sharon Barberee |
Compact Flash or Microdrives ? I need to purchase another card for my Canon Digital Rebel. Which would you rebels users say is more efficent and faster, Microdrives or Compact Flash ? I currently have Lexar 128mb, is there any better ? Thanks in advance...Your suggestions and wisdom are always appreciated !
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KM Yeong |
For long term solution if you are a serious traveller cum photographer like me, you might want to consider digital wallet. It is a portable harddisk with interface to card media (eg Compact Flash Card) which enable you to browse and copy the files from the media onto to the disk. Every time your CF card is full, you just copy the contents onto the digital wallet (which you can upload onto your PC later). You can then erase/format the CF card and reuse it again and again. It is a bit pricey but worth the hassle. Cheers
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Jim Zimmerman |
Sharon - Id offer that there are a couple more considerations. 1) Microdrives are definitely more fragile than a Compact Flash card - more than a few folks have had these expensive microdrives fail on them. 2) The biggest advantage of a microdrive - you can put a LOT of images on it - is also its downfall, in my view - you can LOSE a lot of images all at one time if it fails or is lost. Myself, I have 8 256mb Compact Flash cards - if one fails, or I lose one, I will have a lot of images still with me. What's the phrase, don't put all your cookies in one basket? JimZ
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Sharon Barberee |
Okay, So is there anything better out there than Lexar ? What do you guys use in CF Cards ?
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Jim Zimmerman |
I happen to use Sandisk - 7 of 8 of my cards are Sandisk, the other is a Lexar. But that isn't for any reason other than those were the major-brand ones that were available at good prices in my area, not because I feel they are superior. JimZ
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