From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_wwwebbers.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 01:45:15 EDT
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I ordered from Crucial and was
going to post my results, but the unit was back-ordered and only
shipped today (so I still don't have it, but here's my experience
so far).
On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 10:52:37 -0700, John Bridges wrote:
>The "Sweet Spot" is 256mb for CF.
>NewEgg has 256mb CF cards, $83+$4 shipping
>That's about 1/2 the price per MB of the
>cheapest 32mb you can find.
Thanks for the suggestion, although I don't think I need that
capacity yet. You're right about the $/Mb.
On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:28:16 -0700, Ray Bay wrote:
>In my experience with unhappy customers, the 128 and 256 MB
>CF units do not work well in very many cameras and readers...
>the person must have the very latest equipment in order to
>be happy and sanguine.
I certainly don't doubt your hands-on experience, but the spec for
my Kodak DC215 Millenium blah blah edition claims any
regular-thickness CF card will work, in fact they say if the
capacity is >999 images, the counter will stay at 999 until it goes
down.
In the end I decided on 32Mb from Crucial, it's not the cheapest/Mb
but Crucial is much cheaper than eBay (f'rinstance) what with free
FedEx and all. I figure it will give me about 200 pix at my
current settings (higher resolution, maximum compression in the
camera) but I'll probably switch to best quality and do the
compression on the PC.
Twenty five exposures was too limiting but I expect 100 will be
enough, and if I continue to make good use of the camera, I'll
upgrade. Which will surely require a capacity increase, and might
involve a format change (to Memory Stick or one of the others).
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:35:31 -0700, Paul Khoury wrote:
>>I'm sure any of them will work in my 1Mpixel digital
>>camera, but I'm also looking at using CF in place of
>>a zip or CD-R (admittedly 32Mb is small, but it
>>should do for my immediate needs, and CF comes in
>>512Mb now).
>
>Depends on what you're going to store on it, so your
>usage would be cost effective.
And if I find I'm doing it a lot, 512Mb or 1Gb will undoubtedly be
cheaper, possibly by an amount greater than what a bigger CF would
cost today! (If that makes sense).
>>Also, how much better performance should I get with
>>a PCMCIA adapter in my TP600, vs. my current USB CF
>>reader?
>
>It would be faster than USB, and you would notice a
>significant difference. What speed is the network,
>and what were you planning on transfering? Or just
>small files like word documents and small image
>files (<500KB)?
It's 100bT, really it's just my desktop and ThinkPad sharing a
router. But it would be nice to put a PCMCIA adapter into the
notebook, then pull files off drive J: (notebook C: seen from the
desktop), rather than investing in a PCMCIA adapter for the
desktop.
As for files, I used to put 300-400Mb of files onto a CD-R when
travelling to the customer site. Partly that was a form of backup,
even if the TP died or disappeared en route, I'd still have the
data. I could zip (even without compression) if one big file is
faster to transfer than multiple small ones, but that's for the
future.
One of the biggest reasons for going PCMCIA route is that I then
don't need to carry the USB adapter around with me.
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:20:09 -0400, Sonawane, Hemantkumar wrote:
>try www.kahlon.com
>I got a 32MB for around $15 recently for my 760ED
>This being a regular retailer, I think the memory is
>brand new, unlike a pull from an old machine, likely
>to be found thru ebay--- Hemant
Thanks for the suggestion, after multiple attempts to find CF
memory I gave up. I already ordered from Crucial for U$20.45
including California tax and free shipping but was interested to
compare the net cost.
Certainly this is cheaper than eBay, where the 32Mb sell for
$20-$25 including shipping, and $30-$35 for 64Mb (although some
poor guy sold a 128Mb Viking for <$40).
Thanks everyone for your suggestions!
andrew [awebber_at_wwwebbers.com]
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