Nikon D80 and Transcend SDHC 8 GB card

Paul Rubin wrote:
David Dyer-Bennet writes:
possible backup for a D200 or a D2X have CF cards. Having to have a
second set of cards rather spoils some of the purpose of a backup, and
raises the price quite a lot. (We're talking people here who perhaps
already have 16 4GB cards, some of them; getting anything close to
that again in SD is gonna cost more than the D80!)

64GB of SDHC cards is about $560 these days, not pocket change but
less than a D80.

This is a popular argument, but after investing in a quality DSLR and
lenses, would you really go buy the cheapest media you can find?

I value my images too much to use brand X cards. The cheapest cards are
often much slower too, which makes a big difference in downloading and
recycling after a burst.

In contrast, Lexar runs about $30/GB - at 32GB you've got more money in
flash cards than the D80 body. And the D200 is $500 more than the D80
- most folks with a lot of CF cards would rather spend the money on the
D200 instead of new SD cards. :-)

Cheers,
Richard

Paul Rubin wrote:
David Dyer-Bennet writes:
possible backup for a D200 or a D2X have CF cards. Having to have a
second set of cards rather spoils some of the purpose of a backup, and
raises the price quite a lot. (We're talking people here who perhaps
already have 16 4GB cards, some of them; getting anything close to
that again in SD is gonna cost more than the D80!)


64GB of SDHC cards is about $560 these days, not pocket change but
less than a D80.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211148

And rather more if you buy name-brand and faster cards. Of course not
*that* many people have that much, either.

Someone with both a D80 and a D200 wanting to share cards between them
might look into this:

http://sd-to-cf.com/sd_to_cf_adapter.php

Or just avoid the consumer cameras that don't take CF cards.

Take a quick look: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/cf-sd.htm

Ken is a professional photographer and in my mind he writes the right
things. Take a look at "DoWeCare part". I'd rather buy a hugest but not the
fastest card for everyday work or/and my trips if the price difference
between the fastest and the one that I want is about 5-8 times, and as a
reserved some intermediate size faster card for sport of some other fast
shooting where I really need speed or for RAW shooting. Maybe it also
depends if you shoot in RAW+JPG mode, then yes, it can take a while to save
the data from the buffer. But the fast 8 GB card that I've seen in CompUSA
was over 450 USD, these guys are crazy, but I'd never buy this card for
myself. Yes, I don't like non-reliable junk cards, but there is always a
balance between what we can and what we want.

Regarding "avoid the consumer cameras that don't take CF cards" - we all are
consumers, but some of us are using same or similar devices to make money
and spend the whole life with it, for some of us it's just a hobby, more or
less expensive - depends on the person and its pocket. I'd rather spend
30-40 USD for the adapter to use my whole collection of cards then switch to
another ones. But here is the trap. There are a lot of much larger cards
that we can buy now even comparing to the previous year and instead of
getting 10-16 2GB or 4 GB cards I'd take fewer but bigger ones.

Anyway that's a personal choice and anybody can make it on his own. We all
can make advices, that's it!

Just D.


"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote in message
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Paul Rubin wrote:
David Dyer-Bennet writes:
possible backup for a D200 or a D2X have CF cards. Having to have a
second set of cards rather spoils some of the purpose of a backup, and
raises the price quite a lot. (We're talking people here who perhaps
already have 16 4GB cards, some of them; getting anything close to
that again in SD is gonna cost more than the D80!)


64GB of SDHC cards is about $560 these days, not pocket change but
less than a D80.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211148

And rather more if you buy name-brand and faster cards. Of course not
*that* many people have that much, either.

Someone with both a D80 and a D200 wanting to share cards between them
might look into this:

http://sd-to-cf.com/sd_to_cf_adapter.php

Or just avoid the consumer cameras that don't take CF cards.

Just returning back to my original posting. Maybe somebody wants to know
that.

I finally got 2 cards from transcendusa - 4 gigs (class 6) and 8 gigs (class
2). Both are working great, reformatted them inside D80 as Nikon
recommended, but it wasn't necessary anyway. Nikon noticed that reformatted
inside Nikon cards will be working faster. Maybe-maybe...

4 GB card shows about 525 or over shots in jpg FINE/Large. 8 GB far over a
thousands. We'll see later when start shooting on these cards, because these
numbers are the worst expectation, really the number should be greater,
depends on the contents of the images.

Just D.

In article ,
"Doug Robbins" wrote:

Only if you are on dialup. Nine MB isn't a particularly large file.

Child's play I've downloaded 30-40mb files over dial up.
--
George W. Bush is the President Quayle we never had.

Just a different answering style. Would you prefer such informative answers
like "Sure!", "Yes!", etc.? I don't think so. When IE starts downloading PDF
it shows the size, you can always stop it. But I saw the only one complaint
about the file size, maybe it's not very important, but the others were able
to open and read it if they really wanted.

Just D.

Only if you are on dialup. Nine MB isn't a particularly large file.
To answer what was asked it was way overkill.
Ed Ruf )