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16gb CompactFlash cards! O_O Xan
When my father was teaching me, he let me use his camera and 2 of his 8gb CF cards. I fell in love with them for obvious reasons.

When he bought me my first camera (Canon 400D !Rebel) and gave me some of his equipment (six 1gb CF cards, a Sigma DG 28-300mm lense, and a gab to carry it all in) i knew i would be building my gear up slowly, because i'm unemployed.

But i just fell in love with this card.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/150X-16GB-OEM-SAMSUNG-COMPACT-FLASH-CF-CARD-16-GB-IN-UK_W0QQitemZ270159238109Q
QihZ017QQcategoryZ18871QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm probobly going to end up pawning something off to get one, since they are only around 15/twenty pounds more than the 8gb cards i initially looked at. An extra 8gb is niiiice for only an additional 20 with no extra p&p

Still, there has to be downsides to a card this size (other than if you get lazy and dont take photos off having to deal with up to 1500 photos at once). Wouldnt it kill my battery to have to read something so huge? Would having to read such a large card make my camera's performance drop? I mean geez, a few years ago PC's harddrives where smaller than this. Some still are.
>> annoyingmouse
an annoying downside might be that your camera can't read a card this size. you will still be able to read some of it, or possibly format it as a smaller size card - also a bummer.
Make sure the rebel can read 16G cards.
>> Anonymous
>>72495
They handle large Microdrives just fine, so I doubt there'd be a problem with 16gb CF cards.
>> Anonymous
>>72495
CF cards originally used fat16 formatting for their file system. Fat 16 only supported volumes up to 2gb. Solution go to fat32 max volume is 8tb so that'll be good for awhile.
Only problem was that the cameras at the time didn't support fat32 so for awhile the 4gb cards had switches to switch between fat16/32.

Anywho, I'm not aware of that problem being present with 16gb cards. However I do know the newest fastest cards wit the ultrafast read/write times are faster than the read/write times of all the cameras on the market at the moment, so you wouldn't notice a difference with a ultra fast card (while shooting downloading from card would be faster)
>> Anonymous
>>72494
Make sure the write speed is fast enough - 133x, etc..or else you'd be stuck waiting for the next photo.
>> Vincent
WTF, who cares about storage space really! Taking 16 GB worth of RAW files on a Rebel XT would be like 900 pics, WTF would you ever need to take that many raw files at one time for!

STick with an 8GB card and spend the money on a lens or something.

I have a D200 and I only use a 4GB card in it, And RARELY need more space than that. Hell 2GB was fine except for at a wedding I shot recently! (then I just threw in my other 2 GB card and was fine)
>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
>>STick with an 8GB card and spend the money on a lens or something.
QFT. no need for a huge card if you got a bunch of smaller ones. gotta hate people that think they're pros, buying battery grips when they can easily do 3-4 days with a single battery.

when shooting at my usual high pace, I drop off my photos from my 2GB CF on a laptop every day and reload my battery then. D200 eats battery power, and at 10mp i can take 220 photos at fine quality

the only possible use for a battery grip here would be when shooting vertically on manual focus with a decent hotshoe flash, because the bitch weighs 1.5-2kgs then =/
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>> iProd !8x7lXo9zIQ
>>73011
I bought a battery grip because my hands are too big ;_;
>> Anonymous
>>73009
Obviusly this dumbass is correct since he writes words in ALL CAPS...
No wait he's still a dumbass
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Might want to consider the eggs-in-one-basket issue before you pop for the 16 gig.

1. If you, say, forget to pull your card out of the card reader before you leave your house, you haven't just left all of your storage space at home
2. Important shoot. Card goes bad. You've now lost the whole thing instead of just part of it.
3. That's a lot of money in one tiny little easy-to-lose card.

I think a bunch of smaller cards would be a better way to go. I use a 2GB card 90% of the time, and feel a little bit twitchy any time I have to fall back on one of my 4G microdrives.
>> Xan
Some good points raised.

Just the size seduced me for a little while. I really could do with a cable releasem so i could always do as suggested and grab a couple' 2/4gb cards and the cable release for less than that single card.

Ah, the joy of not having the cash to make impulse buys, you dont guy something like that card and kick yourself.
>> Anonymous
get a job kid
>> Xan
"kid"? Wow, patronizing or what. Especially since you dont know my age. I'm 20 dumbshit, and i live in the UK. Hense adult with responsabilities.

I *have* a job; i just have other things to spend my money on than photography gear. Food, rent, bills, insurance.
>> Anonymous
get a better job kid
>> Xan
Ah, you win, you have beaten me with your wit and deeply logical argument, old man.
>> Anonymous
apparently you waste all your money on commas
>> Xan
Yeah, they really are stupidly priced in this day and age.

Better to use too many than talk in and endlessly unbroken sentace like this because an on running sentance is hell to read for even the greatest readers as i'm sure you understand with you single line posts.

*passes out from lack of air*
>> des
>>73065
>>73076
>>73078
come on man, don't bite on obvious trolls
>> Anonymous
400D and a 16 gig card, eh? rofl.
>> Anonymous
ask daddy to buy it all for you
>> Xan
>>73079

But its fun! :(

Ah well, guess your right. =P
>> Anonymous
>>73083
You can shoot about 2000 pics in raw mode if you have a 16GB card. It doesn't take very long to shoot 2000 pics sometimes.
>> Anonymous
>>73104
Enjoy your worn-out shutter
>> Anonymous
>>73105
You can fill up that 16GB card about 50 times before the shutter's worn out, if you don't delete any pictures.
>> Anonymous
Consider....

Buy 2 4GB cards and 2 512MB cards instead of one huge-assed 16gigger

If you go out and shoot an event for a friend or on a fixed shooting sched (ie a paying gig), you can fill a 512MB card and dump it on a laptop... that's one CD-R filled with room for extras. With a 4Gig card its a DVD-R instead.

In either case, fill the card, put card into lappy to d/l & store, pop 2nd card into camera and keep shooting. Repete as needed. When done, use lappy's internal CD/DVD-R drive to back up your data.

Done Deal.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
>>73049
Seconded.
>> Anonymous
>>73108
50 times isn't much if you manage to fill the card in a couple of shooting sessions.
>> Anonymous
>>73116

if you're taking 2000 photos in a session, you're taking too many. I've heard of very few people actually wearing out the shutter on their camera, and of even fewer reaching 100,000. Photojournalists, sure. Catalog shooters, sure. But your average user? No way.

Not even Ken Rockwell wears out his cameras.
>> Anonymous
>>73121
That's precisely what I'm talking about. There's no need for these 8-16GB cards for an average user.
>> Anonymous
true
>> Anonymous
>>72494

Instead of pissing about pawning stuff, why not spend that time looking for a job?
>> Anonymous
funny how no matter how hard the mods try and trim the thread, it still comes back to the same thing

lol, get a real job
>> Anonymous
>>73022