There again I'm not shooting multiple jobs per day so insertions and removals by number may be somewhat less than for your friends over all.Īs you say they are cheap enough these days to almost be consumable items. 'Sharing' them in the different cameras does not seem to be a problem.

However sometime I just grab what is nearest when needed. I tend to use the large and faster SDs in the 1D3 and 600D and the smaller ones in the others. For the past year or two I have rarely bothered with the CF. SDĪ 1D3 that is usually used with CF and an SD for jpg 'backup'. The regularly used of those is a G11 and sometimes an S90.Ī 600D mainly used with manual lenses.

My CF cards are older slower smaller, and since SD cards are much cheaper I use them instead.Ī Pro 1 and a 400D that need CF cards (Neither used these days). Now I rarely remove the SD card and I hardly ever use the CF card. Works OK on battery only when necessary.Īlthough I have tended to buy 'brand name' products provided they are available at the right price I'm not too picky about that either. I use a netbook for storage and transfers. Recently I have been using just the SD cards and that means I have hardly used the USB3 card reader I bought a couple of years ago since the Notebook I use as a Workstation has a reader built in and working at a good speed. The card manufacturer swapped it for me and the replacement performed perfectly. I figured it must be the camera with that particular speed and capacity of card (the camera was also new to me) and this was 'confirmed' by an official service company. The only problem I can recall with a card was actually a new CF that threw errors when it was about 3/4 full. (Unless they have unsaved images on them!) I don't abuse cards but then neither do I go out of may way to protect them preciously.

I realised early on that with CF cards one needed a careful touch but SD cards have never been a problem. I have always removed the cards and used a reader. I have several friends who have stopped using card readers with the tiny SD cards as their cards keep failing.

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