cd vs cf cards
May 15, 2013 11:32:23 #
ollie
Loc: Ogdensburg, NY
My D 7000 uses two sd cards my D800 uses an sd slot and a slot for a cf card. Is there an advantage to the cf card over the sd card?
May 15, 2013 11:39:42 #
Here is a good short article about CF and SD cards:
http://www.adorama.com/alc/0012945/article/Memory-Myth-Buster
http://www.adorama.com/alc/0012945/article/Memory-Myth-Buster
May 15, 2013 12:10:45 #
haroldross wrote:
Here is a good short article about CF and SD cards:
http://www.adorama.com/alc/0012945/article/Memory-Myth-Buster
http://www.adorama.com/alc/0012945/article/Memory-Myth-Buster
Interesting article.
The whole site has great info.
<<<4. "CompactFlash cards are 'professional' and more durable than SD cards."
False. CompactFlash was the first form factor to the market and was the mainstay in digital photography for about 5 years. SD cards were developed to allow more compact camera designs, but they are actually more durable than CompactFlash cards because they are waterproof, shockproof, magnet- and x-ray proof.>>>
One biggie with our stable of loaner cameras at the university where I work: SD cards aren't prone to damaging the contacts in the camera due to improper insertion of a CF card. Try to put a CF card in incorrectly and you bend the pins inside ($200 & 2 weeks from Canon)I had a shipping box dedicated to sending cameras off for repair.
May 15, 2013 13:24:40 #
FredB
Loc: A little below the Mason-Dixon line.
+1 on GoofyNewfie - CF were around first, but do have the built-in potential for pin bending. SD cards generally do no, as they have flat plane contacts rather than pins & slots like CF cards.
The "professional" tag came about only because nearly all P&S camera bodies take SD cards, whereas some larger DSLRs took CF cards when they first came out. Now, I don't think there are ANY DSLRs that have ONLY a CF slot - the 5D/III has both, the 6D is SD only. I think the 50D was the last large Canon to take ONLY CF cards...
The "professional" tag came about only because nearly all P&S camera bodies take SD cards, whereas some larger DSLRs took CF cards when they first came out. Now, I don't think there are ANY DSLRs that have ONLY a CF slot - the 5D/III has both, the 6D is SD only. I think the 50D was the last large Canon to take ONLY CF cards...
May 15, 2013 15:36:35 #
May 16, 2013 08:47:06 #
May 16, 2013 09:41:02 #
BobBrents wrote:
What do you all think of the sd adapters
Slower yet! It is all about speed.
May 16, 2013 11:00:41 #
BobBrents wrote:
What do you all think of the sd adapters
Slow and they consume more battery power. Most of them work but not very well. I have a couple of them that I used rarely, now they just take up space in a box. It is best to buy the proper card for the job. Most of the CF to SD adapters are Type II which happen to be a slight bit thicker that the Type I. Memory cards are really quite reasonably priced these days.
May 16, 2013 11:38:09 #
FredB wrote:
+1 on GoofyNewfie - CF were around first, but do h... (show quote)
The 7D only takes CF cards. I don't think you could put a card in wrong on the 7D unless you forced it. The only problem I have ever had with CF cards was with cheap card readers. Sense I bought a Sandisk card reader I have not had any problems.
Jim D
May 16, 2013 14:35:15 #
My 1dx only takes cf cards... the 5D3 takes both, so I take advantage of the sd card with that body
May 16, 2013 14:49:48 #
oldtool2 wrote:
I don't think you could put a card in wrong on the 7D unless you forced it.
Jim D
Jim D
Students will find a way.
May 16, 2013 15:09:58 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Students will find a way.
Goofy,
I guess but they will have to work at it, LOL! I just tried. The card will go in about a 1/4 of the way before you hit resistance. From there on you would have to really force it. Before you hit the pins you have to get the card in more than 3/4 of the way.
In other words, you have to be an idiot to push the card in far enough to hit the pins. Guess that is why I didn't go to college, I wasn't stupid enough.
Jim D
May 16, 2013 15:20:07 #
oldtool2 wrote:
In other words, you have to be an idiot to push the card in far enough to hit the pins. Guess that is why I didn't go to college, I wasn't stupid enough.
Jim D
In other words, you have to be an idiot to push the card in far enough to hit the pins. Guess that is why I didn't go to college, I wasn't stupid enough.
Jim D
Sometimes I wonder myself...
And these are grad school students.
May 16, 2013 15:29:29 #
oldtool2 wrote:
Goofy,
I guess but they will have to work at it, LOL! I just tried. The card will go in about a 1/4 of the way before you hit resistance. From there on you would have to really force it. Before you hit the pins you have to get the card in more than 3/4 of the way.
In other words, you have to be an idiot to push the card in far enough to hit the pins. Guess that is why I didn't go to college, I wasn't stupid enough.
Jim D
I guess but they will have to work at it, LOL! I just tried. The card will go in about a 1/4 of the way before you hit resistance. From there on you would have to really force it. Before you hit the pins you have to get the card in more than 3/4 of the way.
In other words, you have to be an idiot to push the card in far enough to hit the pins. Guess that is why I didn't go to college, I wasn't stupid enough.
Jim D
I was! Two weeks after I got my 7D I changed the CF card for the first time. I got an error message, took it in to a Canon center, and paid $450 to have a new pin strip inserted. I still swear that I didn't push hard but it was a lesson learned (and I have a post-graduate degree.)
May 16, 2013 15:34:03 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Sometimes I wonder myself...
And these are grad school students.
And these are grad school students.
Our future. Makes me worry a little! Could be why so many of them can't get jobs? I use to get some of them as apprentices at work. I use to refer to some of them as “intelligent idiots”. How can some of them graduate and have no common sense?
Jim D
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