Memory Cards

A friend of mine told me that he had heard from someone at Lexar that in
2-3 years they would no longer be making CF memory Cards, only
manufacturing SDHC and micro SD cards. I realize that this is third
party hearsay, but has anyone else heard that 'hearsay?' And what about
other manufacturers?

"Alan Lichtenstein" wrote in message
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A friend of mine told me that he had heard from someone at Lexar that in
2-3 years they would no longer be making CF memory Cards, only
manufacturing SDHC and micro SD cards. I realize that this is third party
hearsay, but has anyone else heard that 'hearsay?' And what about other
manufacturers?

CF cards are used in almost all DSLRs. So CF cards will be around for a
long time. I for one wouldn't cry if Lexar stopped making any memory cards.
Their problem may be a shrinking market share.

Ron

Ron wrote:

"Alan Lichtenstein" wrote in message
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A friend of mine told me that he had heard from someone at Lexar that
in 2-3 years they would no longer be making CF memory Cards, only
manufacturing SDHC and micro SD cards. I realize that this is third
party hearsay, but has anyone else heard that 'hearsay?' And what
about other manufacturers?


CF cards are used in almost all DSLRs. So CF cards will be around for a
long time. I for one wouldn't cry if Lexar stopped making any memory
cards. Their problem may be a shrinking market share.

I stopped by my local camera shop today after I posted the initial post.
I mentioned what I had heard and the person I usually deal with said
that he had heard pretty much the same. I asked him about other
manufacturers and he said that he heard nothing about their plans. I
use San Disk anyway, and that initially relieved me, however, he added
that with reduced competition, he anticipated the CF cards to become
more expensive.

I may be wrong, but when comparing similar manufacturer's CF cards to
their SDHC cards, the CF cards seem to have higher write speeds than the
comparable SDHC cards. I agree that most dSLR's use CF cards, however,
many of them have two slots and can take either. Given the differences
in write speeds, it does appear to me that Lexar's decision to get out
of the CF business is somewhat strange, as dSLR users would want the
faster write speeds. Someone had said that the new Nikon 300 has a
single slot. Not using a Nikon, I wouldn't know anything about that
claim either. But I would find it odd.

On 2010-11-07 12:39:15 -0800, Alan Lichtenstein said:

Ron wrote:

"Alan Lichtenstein" wrote in message
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A friend of mine told me that he had heard from someone at Lexar that
in 2-3 years they would no longer be making CF memory Cards, only
manufacturing SDHC and micro SD cards. I realize that this is third
party hearsay, but has anyone else heard that 'hearsay?' And what about
other manufacturers?


CF cards are used in almost all DSLRs. So CF cards will be around for
a long time. I for one wouldn't cry if Lexar stopped making any memory
cards. Their problem may be a shrinking market share.

I stopped by my local camera shop today after I posted the initial
post. I mentioned what I had heard and the person I usually deal with
said that he had heard pretty much the same. I asked him about other
manufacturers and he said that he heard nothing about their plans. I
use San Disk anyway, and that initially relieved me, however, he added
that with reduced competition, he anticipated the CF cards to become
more expensive.

I would guess the announcement of the demise of the CF card is
premature. Whatever Lexar has decided might be a business decision.
That said there are other sources such as Delkin, Hoodman, Kingston,
Sandisk, etc. but there are changes to the line up eliminating the
slower, less expensive, consumer level CF cards. Therefore the CF cards
offered will be higher speed, and higher priced.

Personally I use Sandisk 60MB/s Extreme UDMA CF, and I have quite a
collection of 30MB/s Sandisk Extreme III CF & SDHC cards, though
through their repositioning they no longer produce the 30MB/s Extreme
III CF, and they have renamed the Extreme III SD to Extreme.
Now they have the 60MB/s Extreme UDMA CF, & the 90MB/s Extreme Pro UDMA
CF. That seems to follow the trend of CF only being used in Pro, or
Pro-sumer level DSLR's.
For the consumer market, they have Ultra SDXC which is 15MB/s, and the
Extreme SDHC @ 30MB/s. They do not have an SD card which comes near the
write/read speed of the UDMA CF cards.


I may be wrong, but when comparing similar manufacturer's CF cards to
their SDHC cards, the CF cards seem to have higher write speeds than
the comparable SDHC cards. I agree that most dSLR's use CF cards,
however, many of them have two slots and can take either. Given the
differences in write speeds, it does appear to me that Lexar's decision
to get out of the CF business is somewhat strange, as dSLR users would
want the faster write speeds. Someone had said that the new Nikon 300
has a single slot. Not using a Nikon, I wouldn't know anything about
that claim either. But I would find it odd.

The Nikon D300 had a single CF slot. The newer D300s has CF, and SD
slots. The secondary slot can be menu set as a parallel back-up, an
overflow for when the primary memory has filled, splitting RAW and JPEG
files onto different cards, or directing video files onto a different
memory card to your still files. It is a useful feature.


--
Regards,

Savageduck

"Alan Lichtenstein" wrote in message
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Ron wrote:

"Alan Lichtenstein" wrote in message
...

A friend of mine told me that he had heard from someone at Lexar that in
2-3 years they would no longer be making CF memory Cards, only
manufacturing SDHC and micro SD cards. I realize that this is third
party hearsay, but has anyone else heard that 'hearsay?' And what about
other manufacturers?


CF cards are used in almost all DSLRs. So CF cards will be around for a
long time. I for one wouldn't cry if Lexar stopped making any memory
cards. Their problem may be a shrinking market share.

I stopped by my local camera shop today after I posted the initial post. I
mentioned what I had heard and the person I usually deal with said that he
had heard pretty much the same. I asked him about other manufacturers and
he said that he heard nothing about their plans. I use San Disk anyway,
and that initially relieved me, however, he added that with reduced
competition, he anticipated the CF cards to become more expensive.

I may be wrong, but when comparing similar manufacturer's CF cards to
their SDHC cards, the CF cards seem to have higher write speeds than the
comparable SDHC cards. I agree that most dSLR's use CF cards, however,
many of them have two slots and can take either. Given the differences in
write speeds, it does appear to me that Lexar's decision to get out of the
CF business is somewhat strange, as dSLR users would want the faster write
speeds. Someone had said that the new Nikon 300 has a single slot. Not
using a Nikon, I wouldn't know anything about that claim either. But I
would find it odd.

I have three Canon DSLRs and they all have a single card slot and it is CF.
As far as price goes, they are all cheap to those of us that have been using
them for a while. Years ago a 340 MB microdrive type II CF card was over a
hundred bucks. The CF cards with the largest capacity and fast write/read
speeds will always have a high price until the newer version comes out.
Like all electronics, the bigger better widget always costs more!

Ron

no-one outside of lexar will know their plans.

i needed a new sd card. with future versatility in mind, i elected to
buy a 2gb 133x professional sd card. of a decent size and fast speed
20mb/sec, i found one on amazon uk. i think lexar are the best overall,
the card has improved speed of my older camera. depends on device.
lexar.com has 2gb compatibility chart,so you can check before-hand. and
i will be able to use in sdhc and sdxc devices in the future, if i want.

the future of CF must be in doubt, as now sd production dwarfs cf,;
economies of scale sre paramount, as in all industries, imo

"clarity" wrote in message
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no-one outside of lexar will know their plans.

i needed a new sd card. with future versatility in mind, i elected to
buy a 2gb 133x professional sd card. of a decent size and fast speed
20mb/sec, i found one on amazon uk. i think lexar are the best overall,
the card has improved speed of my older camera. depends on device.
lexar.com has 2gb compatibility chart,so you can check before-hand. and
i will be able to use in sdhc and sdxc devices in the future, if i want.

the future of CF must be in doubt, as now sd production dwarfs cf,;
economies of scale sre paramount, as in all industries, imo


With more and more camera manufacturers changing over to SD cards, the CF
card will be pretty much extinct in a couple of years.
Regards Mike.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:49:54 -0000, "Mike J Cawood, HND BIT"
wrote:

"clarity" wrote in message
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no-one outside of lexar will know their plans.

i needed a new sd card. with future versatility in mind, i elected to
buy a 2gb 133x professional sd card. of a decent size and fast speed
20mb/sec, i found one on amazon uk. i think lexar are the best overall,
the card has improved speed of my older camera. depends on device.
lexar.com has 2gb compatibility chart,so you can check before-hand. and
i will be able to use in sdhc and sdxc devices in the future, if i want.

the future of CF must be in doubt, as now sd production dwarfs cf,;
economies of scale sre paramount, as in all industries, imo


With more and more camera manufacturers changing over to SD cards, the CF
card will be pretty much extinct in a couple of years.
Regards Mike.

Still today, new CF cards are the better bargain in terms of price for
performance in capacity and speed.

It seems to me that for those of us still using CF cards, we'll be
able to get tons of them used really cheap as others replace their CF
cameras with SD ones. There's a lot of CF cards out there and they
last a lot longer than the cameras that use them.

You can still buy film long after the heyday of film has passed. And
unlike a CF card, that's a consumable with a limited shelf life.

I don't see the supply of CF cards drying up any time soon.

Steve