SD vs CF cards

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Is there any reason why I shouldn't be favouring SD over CF?

The SanDisk Extreme III 8GB SD cards I have are supposedly faster than the equivalent CF cards in my camera but for some reason I'm still reaching for the CF.
 
I already broke one SD card. The side chipped off when I put it in wrong. My second one's lock switch sometimes locks when I put it in the cam.

I like CF cards. :)
 
SD is a newer format. If you must you can get CF Type-II adapters that will take 1 or 2 SD cards so you cannot go wrong investing in SD. With SD you can buy a microSD along with an adapter to make it fullsize and then you can use it in pretty much all your devices.

Thesedays CF makes for quite handy SSDs to be used in older PCs that only have ATA ports. Apart from that CF is dead and old.
 
Thanks for the feedback - I have 2x8gb SDHC cards and only 1x8gb CF I think I'll use the SD cards for RAW and simultaneously write JPG or sRAW to the CD as a backup.
 
Rouxenator said:
SD is a newer format. If you must you can get CF Type-II adapters that will take 1 or 2 SD cards so you cannot go wrong investing in SD. With SD you can buy a microSD along with an adapter to make it fullsize and then you can use it in pretty much all your devices.

Thesedays CF makes for quite handy SSDs to be used in older PCs that only have ATA ports. Apart from that CF is dead and old.
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where can I get hold of those CF adapters?
 
ChrisJ said:
If you want speed, compact flash is the only way to go. Sandish announced their latest offering a couple of weeks ago with the new Extreme Pro cards with read/write of upto 90MB/s, the fastest SD they have are only 30MB/s - http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09091402sandisk.asp
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The cards might be that fast but my camera isnt - Rob Galbraith's site (www.robgalbraith.com) tested various brands and concluded that - for my camera my SDHC (SanDisk Extreme III 8GB) cards were significantly quicker than the equivalent CF cards (I have the SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition 8GB) - 13.2MB/s vs 9.9MB/s
 
Regardless of speed etc. I believe that the SD card connection sockets are far more robust, and most laptops come with an SD readers only.
I've seen many reports of the delicate pins in the camera's socket getting damaged needed a major repair.
 
CF is a parallel interface like the old ATA/IDE hard drives and PCMCIA slots. All of these are being replaced by serial interfaces.

Chau, I bought mine from eBay a few years ago and actually sold it at a profit on bidorbuy sometime later when I had no more CF cameras to use it in.

SD FTW ! :p
 
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