EOS 350D ... any good?

@Mercurial, before you buy that Extreme IV card, have a look at this. I decided to get one 4GB Sandisk Extreme III card to benchmark (since I have a II and a IV already) before I stock up for my trip, and the results were interesting. I also decided to look up the price (amazon.co.uk) and add it as a cost per performance figure:

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[table]
[tr]
	[td]Card[/td]
	[td]| Size[/td]
	[td]| Time (seconds)[/td]
	[td]| Speed (MB/s)[/td]
        [td]| Rand per MB/s[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]RiData 2GB[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 146.474[/td]
	[td]| 4.52[/td]
        [td]| N/A[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]Lexar 4GB 60x[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 105.356[/td]
	[td]| 6.29[/td]
        [td]| 44.52[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]Sony Memorystick Pro Duo 4GB[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 68.166[/td]
	[td]| 9.72[/td]
        [td]| 44.52[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]Sandisk Extreme II 4GB[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 103.585[/td]
	[td]| 6.40[/td]
        [td]| 27.02[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
        [td]Sandisk Extreme III 4GB[/td]
        [td]| 662.6[/td]
        [td]| 50.216[/td]
        [td]| 13.19[/td]
        [td]| 19.4[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]Sandisk Extreme IV 8GB[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 40.094[/td]
	[td]| 16.53[/td]
        [td]| 27.02[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

At a mere 3.33 MB/s difference (20% odd) for roughly double the money, the Sandisk Extreme III looks like the best bang for buck by far. I'm off to order three more :)
 
@koffie - thank for this info man. I was going to stock up on some CF cards this weekend. If this is true then I will definitely go for the Sandisk Extreme III.
 
koffiejunkie said:
@Mercurial, before you buy that Extreme IV card, have a look at this. I decided to get one 4GB Sandisk Extreme III card to benchmark (since I have a II and a IV already) before I stock up for my trip, and the results were interesting. I also decided to look up the price (amazon.co.uk) and add it as a cost per performance figure:

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At a mere 3.33 MB/s difference (20% odd) for roughly double the money, the Sandisk Extreme III looks like the best bang for buck by far. I'm off to order three more :)
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What kind of card reader are you using?
 
koffiejunkie said:
Nope. I just copy 4/8GB worth of CFR2 files to it, stick it in the camera, format it, wash/rinse/repeat...
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I'm not looking for benchmarking (the initial transfer is hardly the slowest link in my chain) but something that might indicate the 'health' of the card - anything that might be a precursor to a card failure.
 
Well, my cycle should - it write faster to the card than my camera does (from what I can tell), and for longer periods of time on end. And with a bit of shell scripting I can make it happen automatically in the background. I can even intensify it - copy, sync, checksum, delete, sync, repeat repeat repeat...
 
koffiejunkie said:
Well, my cycle should - it write faster to the card than my camera does (from what I can tell), and for longer periods of time on end. And with a bit of shell scripting I can make it happen automatically in the background. I can even intensify it - copy, sync, checksum, delete, sync, repeat repeat repeat...
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Not really sure that would be a great idea. Steve Gibson - creator of spinrite - was asked if his application could be used on flash memory and he said the intensity of the read/write would quickly destroy it.
 
koffiejunkie said:
@Mercurial, before you buy that Extreme IV card, have a look at this. I decided to get one 4GB Sandisk Extreme III card to benchmark (since I have a II and a IV already) before I stock up for my trip, and the results were interesting. I also decided to look up the price (amazon.co.uk) and add it as a cost per performance figure:

Code: 
[table]
[tr]
	[td]Card[/td]
	[td]| Size[/td]
	[td]| Time (seconds)[/td]
	[td]| Speed (MB/s)[/td]
        [td]| Rand per MB/s[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]RiData 2GB[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 146.474[/td]
	[td]| 4.52[/td]
        [td]| N/A[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]Lexar 4GB 60x[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 105.356[/td]
	[td]| 6.29[/td]
        [td]| 44.52[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]Sony Memorystick Pro Duo 4GB[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 68.166[/td]
	[td]| 9.72[/td]
        [td]| 44.52[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]Sandisk Extreme II 4GB[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 103.585[/td]
	[td]| 6.40[/td]
        [td]| 27.02[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
        [td]Sandisk Extreme III 4GB[/td]
        [td]| 662.6[/td]
        [td]| 50.216[/td]
        [td]| 13.19[/td]
        [td]| 19.4[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
	[td]Sandisk Extreme IV 8GB[/td]
	[td]| 662.6[/td]
	[td]| 40.094[/td]
	[td]| 16.53[/td]
        [td]| 27.02[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

At a mere 3.33 MB/s difference (20% odd) for roughly double the money, the Sandisk Extreme III looks like the best bang for buck by far. I'm off to order three more :)
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Thanks so much for this :)
 
bwana said:
I'm pretty sure the 40D takes CF - he also has a sony point and shoot hence the Sony Memorystick.

I could be mistaken though.
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Yeah. I just assumed that since he addressed me in the post that it was for SD. Indeed, the 40D does take CF.
 
bwana said:
so . . . got a camera yet? :D
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Lol, as I mentioned, I'm off to Durbs in a few days time, so I did not want to get the cam now, as I would not have time to play around with it. When I get back, I will get it, so that's in a few weeks time :)
 
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