Sandisk 8Gb Ultra II Compact Flash

pathfinder

Has anyone noticed the price on Sandisk 8 Gb Ultra II Compact Flash recently??

Amazon has several vendors offering it for $349.00

Wow!! That is a far cry from last falls price. :

You really could shoot all day and never change a card in the field. Even shooting high speed drive at sporting events.

DanielB

its only a matter of time till they get a 16gig for the "1Ds MkIII" lol.

wxwax

The II is too slow for machine gunning. The buffer quickly fills up and you have to wait for space to clear. That's why I held out until the price of the 4GB III came into reach. It will hold upwards of 300 images. This morning I had my first anxiety attack about losing images.

Nikolai

Oh, come on, man!

wxwax wrote:

The II is too slow for machine gunning. The buffer quickly fills up and you have to wait for space to clear. That's why I held out until the price of the 4GB III came into reach. It will hold upwards of 300 images. This morning I had my first anxiety attack about losing images.

There always will be better and faster. PF's point was that just a few month ago those 8Gb II were out of reach, and now they look like a real commodity. I, for one, will definitely keep an eye on them now - my 2Gb fills up waaaaay to fast...:):

pathfinder

wxwax wrote:

The II is too slow for machine gunning. The buffer quickly fills up and you have to wait for space to clear. That's why I held out until the price of the 4GB III came into reach. It will hold upwards of 300 images. This morning I had my first anxiety attack about losing images.

Then, how about using this in a 5D perhaps. Shooting landscapes at Bryce?? No need to worry abut buffers. And you do not need to swap cards in the field. That's cool!!

But even in a 1DMkII, I think it will rock.

Rarely do I fill the buffer in it anyway. I have a Lexar 4GB 80X if I am in that mode.

The price of the 8Gb CF is almost 1/3 what it was 6-8 months ago.

It really will not be but another year or so at this rate, that laptops will no longer need hard drives. Think of the weight reduction and battery life extension too.

wxwax

pathfinder wrote:

It really will not be but another year or so at this rate, that laptops will no longer need hard drives. Think of the weight reduction and battery life extension too.

Now there's a thought. What do they reckon the physical limit is for flash memory? I know they're coming up with a new technology (storing stuff vertically? ) but they still have an idea of the outer limits, no?

System

moore's law
moore's law: doubling of transistors in a given space every two years-

http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/silicon/moores-law-0405.htm

DanielB

gefillmore wrote:

moore's law: doubling of transistors in a given space every two years-

http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/silicon/moores-law-0405.htm

:snore

System

Daniel-

you crack my ass!!

if it wasn't for Moore, one of the founders of Intel, you'd definitely be snorin', and not googlin'-

or performing binary searches on your tandy 1024K or playing Zork XXV on your commodore 512K-

luckyrwe

I put my 4GB and 8GB Sandisk cards up here and thought asking $700 was fair because I had not checked the prices. It is amazing how much they have changed.

By the time I am back from my assignment I will be ready to get the latest body and memory cards. Thank heavens the lenses do not depreciate as quickly.

Maybe I should not have said that. :uhoh

gus

gefillmore wrote:

Daniel-

you crack my ass!!

if it wasn't for Moore, one of the founders of Intel, you'd definitely be snorin', and not googlin'-

or performing binary searches on your tandy 1024K or playing Zork XXV on your commodore 512K-

Youth is wasted on the young gef...here is an interesting link for a read on a rainy day.

Bob Bell

gefillmore wrote:

Daniel-

you crack my ass!!

if it wasn't for Moore, one of the founders of Intel, you'd definitely be snorin', and not googlin'-

or performing binary searches on your tandy 1024K or playing Zork XXV on your commodore 512K-

Thats funny.

DanielB

Humungus wrote:

Youth is wasted on the young gef...here is an interesting link for a read on a rainy day.

Gus, i used to make stuff kinda like that...except it was more like 3 gears that had no correlation what-so-ever and i would give myself a pat on the back for a job well done.


oh, and i think i could be an architect too because i used to play w/ Linkin' Logs

System

Gus-

thanks for the link-fascinatin' stuff-

some more links-
http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml first pc-


http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml first computer bug--(moth) where's lordv when you need him-

"[SIZE=+1]Hopper, Grace M.[/SIZE]
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992) was a US naval officer and mathematician who invented the computer compiler (called the A-O) in 1952. Her compiler revolutionized computer programming, automatically translating high-level instructions (easier to understand by people) into machine code (the cryptic, native language of the central processing unit). Hopper and a team developed the first user-friendly business programming language, COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language). There is an unconfirmed story that Hopper determined than an error in the early Mark II computer was caused by a moth that was trapped in it; she then coined the term "computer bug." "

from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/enc/h.shtml



http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/contents.html the first computer (circa 1850) with a note about the first adding machine (1645)-

george

Daniel- pop quiz on wednesday-

DanielB

gefillmore wrote:

Daniel- pop quiz on wednesday-

ahhh i can't even get away from these things when i'm at home

Malte

8 GB Extreme III coming up in March, $559.99.

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/349/C6665/

Malte

Osprey Whisperer

If you are looking for something a bit smaller...the Sandisk Extreme III 2GB card is a pretty decent price. With the recent price drops....and a rebate ...you can have a 2gb Extreme III for under $100 ($97.95). ($7 more than the Ultra II 2GB) Yeah..rebates are a PITA..but so is work.

System

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

If you are looking for something a bit smaller...the Sandisk Extreme III 2GB card is a pretty decent price. With the recent price drops....and a rebate ...you can have a 2gb Extreme III for under $100 ($97.95). ($7 more than the Ultra II 2GB) Yeah..rebates are a PITA..but so is work.

maybe this is known, but the III comes with RescuePRO-

BBones

Too many pics to lose if the CF goes belly up in the middle of a shoot on an 8GB