CF Cards Vs SD Cards

[Mitch.Conner]

Yup...enough with the fear mongering.

I've been shooting CF cards for 15 years and not once have I bent pins or messed up the mechanical interface in any way.

I've been using CF cards for almost as long and have never had a problem. The first cards I ever bought still work. They're snail speed compared to what I use these days, but that's just technology getting better over time.

I never even heard of bent pin issues from anybody I personally know. Only on the net.

 

[Canon1]

Sandisk usually includes free recovery software vouchers with their high end cards. I have had to use this once when I accidentally formatted a cf card. The recovery software saved the day. Maybe the other manufacturers also include this, but after my experience I'm sticking with sandisk.

 

[kaihp]

Sandisk usually includes free recovery software vouchers with their high end cards. I have had to use this once when I accidentally formatted a cf card. The recovery software saved the day. Maybe the other manufacturers also include this, but after my experience I'm sticking with sandisk.

Lexar do that too. Or at least I got licenses with the 1000x cards I bought a couple of years back.

 

[dickgrafixstop]

Have it both ways - buy a CF to SD adapter for less than $20 and use SD cards in the CF slot.

 

[Halfrack]

Have it both ways - buy a CF to SD adapter for less than $20 and use SD cards in the CF slot.

The Delkin adapter I have is dog slow - not worth the double touch to swap a card - CF out of slot, SD out of adapter, SD into adapter, adapter into slot.

Nice to see the 7D2 has a SD slot, but at this point I'm so far deep into CF that I can't just switch. In fact, I counted an hour ago that I've got 176gb of Sandisk CF cards, and 104gb of Transcend/Delkin/Adata that I can't use in my fancy camera. To make it worse, I've got a camera showing up in the morning and it'll need at least 3x 32gb UHS1 SD cards since it can't take CF...

At least I won't have to empty cards on vacation.... Oh, and never think you're getting a 'deal' on memory cards - buy from a trusted source, or directly from Sandisk - there are too many fakes out there.

 

[dgatwood]

Using 1d4 and 5d3 its simple: I prefer the CF cards due to the slow SD interface
In my Sony or Fuji the SD shine with speed.....

7d2 supports finally the UHS protocol- wow. Canon, the late adopter.

The 6D supported UHS-I (2009), too. Too bad Canon still hasn't adopted UHS-II (mid-2011). :/