mercurial
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That's the one I'm getting.
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Someone gave xrapidx a 40D
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That's the one I'm getting.
The Transcend or Sandisk?
Not sure why the Transcend one is double the size and half the price.
Just ordered one of these rather: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120333963525
Anyone know why the Transcend CF is so much cheaper than the Sandisk?
Anyone know why the Transcend CF is so much cheaper than the Sandisk?
when I round trip it from aperture to ps3 it is as a 16bit psd. Most of my post though is done within aperture so never needs to be converted to anything until its time to export.
ldmelsa
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aperture? Is that for Mac?
Yeah - the nearest thing on PC would be Lightroom.
koffiejunkie
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The plastic ones seem to distort, or blur the picture a bit, I think glass would be better, and for R100 its the same price as the plastic one
The camera already has a pretty tough screen. I don't know if it is glass or not, but after a year in my clumsy hands, my 40D has not a scratch on the s creen. How much does cost to replace the screen? Given that mine survived a year without getting scratched at all, I'd rather spend the money on an extra CF card or something - by the time that screen has enough scratches that it bothers me, the shutter will probably be kaput anyways.
I keep mine, but that's purely because I don't trust myself to decide weather or not a particular RAW file is beyond saving or not. My RAW development skills are basic. Already, I have revived a few old shots simply because I'm much better at using Aperture than I was six months (or even three months) ago, so those RAWs might come in handy in a year or two or ten.
Somewhere in a previous thread I posted the results of some performance testing I did. The Extreme III came out as the best bang for buck. I own Extreme II, III and IV cards. I tested with my Sandisk Extreme reader, so the upper limit might be the reader rather than the card, but my figures seems to peak in about the same range as Rob G's tests.
From the II to the III, the write spead just about doubled, while the price did roundabout the same (at the time). From the III to IV, the price doubled again, but the write speed only went up from about 13 Mbytes/s to 16 Mbytes/s. Hence my conclusion that the Extreme III is the best bang for buck.
BUT, the 50D has a much faster card reader/writer, so getting an Extreme IV card might be worth the money. As far as I know the 50D also supports UDMA. I'm not sure of how much relevance this is. All UDMA means is that the storage medium and the memory transfer data between each other without requireing the CPU to get involved. Why I question the relevance is the sequence in which things happen in your camera. Think about this - nothing happens in parallel. You press the shutter, the camera captures the raw data. If you're shooting raw, it simply dumps it to the card, if you shoot JPEG, it converts it, and then dumps it to card. The dumping to card part is the only part there the CPU is involved, and I very much doubt if the kind of I/O controllers used in a camera requires the main processor (Digic III/IV, in this case). Maybe it does make a *slight* difference when you're filling up the buffer, but I'm sceptical. It's one of those things that's hard to gauge, because the UDMA cards are just faster anyway, with or without the UDMA ones. Anyway, just my cynicism...
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Probably because of the brand name and quality control. i guess the software you get with it also plays a part. It comes with some pro-ish recovery software for when cards go bad. And a little CF card puch. I haven't needed the software yet, but it's nice to know I have it should I ever need it. It comes for Mac too!
Yes. I thought you had a Mac? (maybe I'm confused?) While you're asking, I think Aperture (or Lightroom) is worth using even if you shoot in JPEG rather than RAW. Sure you lose some things you can do with RAW, but Aperture can still do a lot with JPEG files (most things you are likely to do in PS anyway, as far as I can tell), and it gives you some really slick and powerful organising and output tools. It's pretty cheap fo what it is too.
While its more worthwhile getting a Mac and Aperture getting lightroom is the best you're going to do on a PC.
mercurial
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Sorry, the Sandisk. I posted some interesting link about read and write speeds of various cameras and memory cards in one of the other threads. I'll see if I can find it.
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mercurial
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Here we go -> http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/camera_multi_page.asp?cid=6007-9257
You can choose the DSLR and it shows you the speeds that they found during testing. The important thing is the speed at which the image is written to the camera. The Extreme 4 is only good when transferring from the camera to the pc with the Extreme firewire reader. It does not write the images to the card at that speed, but rather the speed it has when it transfers the images to the pc. Extreme 3 is the way to go.
You can choose the DSLR and it shows you the speeds that they found during testing. The important thing is the speed at which the image is written to the camera. The Extreme 4 is only good when transferring from the camera to the pc with the Extreme firewire reader. It does not write the images to the card at that speed, but rather the speed it has when it transfers the images to the pc. Extreme 3 is the way to go.
koffiejunkie
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I've said this before. You can do 99% of our RAW development in Lightroom/Aperture once you get to know them. As I'm getting to know Aperture better and better, I spend less time in Photoshop. If you don't already own Photoshop, I'd say buy Lightroom/Aperture and stick to one of the free/cheap pixel editors until you know Lightroom/Aperture well enough to know that you need something stronger for specific work and know that the stuff you're using isn't cutting it any more. Photoshop is pretty expensive - unless you really need it, I'd rather spend the money on good glass.
Yes, but xrapidx now has a 50D, in which case the speed increase on the Extreme IV (the camera writing to it) is massive:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/camera_multi_page.asp?cid=6007-9672
mercurial
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Dang, that's 3 times faster. But... do you really need that? I suppose it's useful.
koffiejunkie
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I guess with files that are 50% larger, it helps.
Lightroom and PS3 are two completely different applications which complement rather than replace each other.I have Photoshop CS3 for company use
Just wondering if Lightroom is worth it over this.
Downloaded the trial.
Anyone know if there's a place that has SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash 8GB cheaper (R1,520.00)
ldmelsa
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Thanks guys. No, I don't have a Mac, but I'll get one for a business. Nice stuff for video editing. They have Final Cut Studio. It's got like everything you need for video, except Photoshop. Then there is the Mac Pro, to run it on, and you're done! Apple have some great workflow solutions for the video/graphics/audio pro. Not that you can't do it on PC, but I just like Apple's integrated systems. Very nice!
Is this a good flash for a 50D?
http://www.orms.co.za/product.php?a=view&product=1626
http://www.orms.co.za/product.php?a=view&product=1626