I Gb compact flash vs 512Mb (or even 256) compact flash

when I see the 2gb cards come down in price I'll get a DVD drive.

SanDisk 2GB CompactFlash Card Type 1
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...73&dcaid=17073
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $136.99


Better start looking at DVD drives!

when I see the 2gb cards come down in price I'll get a DVD drive.

SanDisk 2GB CompactFlash Card Type 1
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...73&dcaid=17073
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $136.99


Better start looking at DVD drives!

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:03:55 +0000 (UTC), Paul J Gans
wrote:

My wife is going to the Antarctic this December. Anyone
know of a place where she can burn a CD?

With all those penguins you'd think that some of them would
be running Linux...

----- Paul J. Gans

If she will be taking a laptop, an external burner will do the job
nicely.

Bill Funk
Change "g" to "a"

In article ,
says...

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:03:55 +0000 (UTC), Paul J Gans
wrote:

My wife is going to the Antarctic this December. Anyone
know of a place where she can burn a CD?

With all those penguins you'd think that some of them would
be running Linux...

----- Paul J. Gans

If she will be taking a laptop, an external burner will do the job
nicely.

Bill Funk
Change "g" to "a"

And the heat generated by my Toshiba P25 might be an added benefit! :-}

Hunt

In article ,
says...

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:03:55 +0000 (UTC), Paul J Gans
wrote:

My wife is going to the Antarctic this December. Anyone
know of a place where she can burn a CD?

With all those penguins you'd think that some of them would
be running Linux...

----- Paul J. Gans

If she will be taking a laptop, an external burner will do the job
nicely.

Bill Funk
Change "g" to "a"

And the heat generated by my Toshiba P25 might be an added benefit! :-}

Hunt

Ron Hunter wrote in message ...
Rick S. wrote:

I see I can get a 1 Gb compactflash card for 20 or 30 bucks more than
a 512 Mb card.... seems a no brainer to me, I'd like to get a coupla 1
G's rather than 4 512's, (I'm going on a long trip and will not have
any downloading capability).
Is there any reason I should avoid such a big capacity card?
Is it the same technology in both?
Any body have any failures on gigabyte cards?
I'm going to stick with established namebrands, either sandisk or
lexar, and my camera can handle the size.
thanks ahead of time for any input,
Rick

Theoretically, you are more likely to suffer a single failure if you
have 4 cards than if you have one card.

Wrong logic. If you have 4 cards and one goes bad you still have
75% of you photos available. When you have a single card and it
goes bad, you are toast.....Its an insurance policy, spread the
risk.

Ron Hunter wrote in message ...
Rick S. wrote:

I see I can get a 1 Gb compactflash card for 20 or 30 bucks more than
a 512 Mb card.... seems a no brainer to me, I'd like to get a coupla 1
G's rather than 4 512's, (I'm going on a long trip and will not have
any downloading capability).
Is there any reason I should avoid such a big capacity card?
Is it the same technology in both?
Any body have any failures on gigabyte cards?
I'm going to stick with established namebrands, either sandisk or
lexar, and my camera can handle the size.
thanks ahead of time for any input,
Rick

Theoretically, you are more likely to suffer a single failure if you
have 4 cards than if you have one card.

Wrong logic. If you have 4 cards and one goes bad you still have
75% of you photos available. When you have a single card and it
goes bad, you are toast.....Its an insurance policy, spread the
risk.

(Savidge4) writes:

when I see the 2gb cards come down in price I'll get a DVD drive.

SanDisk 2GB CompactFlash Card Type 1
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...73&dcaid=17073
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $136.99


Better start looking at DVD drives!

Well given DVD burners can now be had for under $60 (Samsung 8x at newegg.com
with cheapest shipping) now might be the time to start looking around.

--
Michael Meissner
email:
http://www.the-meissners.org

I'm going on a long trip and will not have any downloading capability.

If I were going on a long trip without a laptop, I'd be inclined to go
for enough 512Mb CF cards for a day or two's shooting (probably two)
and a standalone protable CD writer.
http://www.cameraandphotostore.com/shop/detail/item7791006.html
http://www.acecameras.co.uk/asp/web/ph/cat/prodtype/1183/prodtype.asp

Every time a card filled up, I'd burn two CD's, one I'd keep, the other
I'd post home. My only worry with this approch is how to verify the files
have been sucessfully transfered...




--
Michael
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~
NPC rights activist | Nameless Abominations are people too.

I'm going on a long trip and will not have any downloading capability.

If I were going on a long trip without a laptop, I'd be inclined to go
for enough 512Mb CF cards for a day or two's shooting (probably two)
and a standalone protable CD writer.
http://www.cameraandphotostore.com/shop/detail/item7791006.html
http://www.acecameras.co.uk/asp/web/ph/cat/prodtype/1183/prodtype.asp

Every time a card filled up, I'd burn two CD's, one I'd keep, the other
I'd post home. My only worry with this approch is how to verify the files
have been sucessfully transfered...




--
Michael
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~
NPC rights activist | Nameless Abominations are people too.