Transcend 8GB 133x Ultra Speed Compact Flash Card
Posted by Notcot on Apr 13, 2010 in Photography |
Product Description
Transcend 8GB 133X CompactFlash Card
- Transcend 8GB 133X CompactFlash Card
- Ultra-fast 133X performance with dual-channel su
- Conforms to CF Type I standards
- Data transfer rate: 21.5MB/sec(Max)
- Supports Ultra DMA mode 0-4
I can’t actually believe you can get 16GB of CompactFlash storage for less than £35 these days! But I agree with the positive reviews for the product. I too have a Canon EOS400D SLR camera, and this card is perfect. To test the writing speed, I set my camera to manual, the quality to RAW (which means the data gets written to the card at absolute top quality, with no compression, and just as the camera sensor sees it), and held my finger down on the shutter button. Twenty shots later, I released the button expecting the camera to take ages to write the data to the card, but it didn’t. It was so quick I had to check to be sure! It had recorded all the photos with no problems.
Even shooting with RAW, you can store approx 1500 photos on this card.
Anyway, don’t believe the negative reviews, this product is fantastic!
Just a quick update on this card. I remember one of the reviewers saying that they had problems getting the full 16gb from this card. I think I know why. I formatted the card myself in the EOS400D camera of which I spoke in my review, and it could only manage to format it to 8GB. This is a bit of an odd drawback of the Canon camera, as I can easily fill the whole 16gb with photos, no problem. Anyway, if you do happen to format your card using the camera and you can only use 8GB, go into Microsoft Windows (or your preferred operating system) and remove the partition using Disk Manager. Then create and format a new partition for the whole 16gb. Simples!
Rating: 5 / 5
Got 4 of these 8GB cards (as well as SanDisk ones)… in comparison these sit just under the SanDisk Extreme III in terms of speed.
Download using SanDisk Card Reader @ 20mb/sec average. This seems to vary depending on the type and number of files on the card, and card reader. (Budget card reader will give you a slower speed, as expected really)
Upload to CF from Card Reader @ 10mb/sec (slow but I hardly ever do this anyway)
In the camera (Canon 5D), its more than fast enough even when shooting RAW.
If you have 1D series / high fps you may want the faster ones though…
Reliability is 100% on each card so far… (3 months heavy usage, though this may change over a year or two!).
For this price you cant get better.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this card to use in my Canon EOS 50D and it has worked perfectly so far with no problems at all.
It is fast enough to take a burst of shots on the jpeg + Raw setting @ 6.3 frames per second with no loss of speed that I could detect, even on longer bursts.
Read speed is also fast as it only takes a short time to download a large number of jpeg + raw files direct from the camera onto the PC via the camera`s own usb cable, with no read/write errors so far. (It may be faster still with a card reader)
I have been using the 16gb version of this card on my other camera body (EOS 40d) and I was so impressed with the cards performance that I bought this 32gb for the higher resolution EOS 50D. and this card does not disappoint either.
With the camera set on jpeg and raw image recording, both on the highest resolution possible, (15mp) you can still get over a thousand images on this card, thats about 4,000+ high quality 15mp jpegs on one card, and on a 10mp camera about 50% more than that. (although this does vary depending on the type of pictures you are taking, as some pictures contain more information than others and have a larger file size.)
Please remember that not all camera`s, (especially older models) are compatible with high capacity CF cards, check your camera for compatibility before buying this card to avoid any disappointment.
All in all this is an excellent card that does everything the manufacturers claim, and it does it well.
At this price it is highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have a Canon EOS 400D and bought this CF card to supplement my Sandisk Extreme III 4GB card.
The card can handle 3 frames per second (which is the burst rate of my camera) without any problems. Furthermore, my camera has no issue reading the card as 16GB and I have not experienced any loss of pictures or photo degradation after having taken more than 5,000 pictures with it.
You get approximately 4,000 pictures at 100 ISO (JPEG-highest quality). This has in fact, become my main card. For its price and performance, it’s hard to beat.
Highly recommended!
Rating: 5 / 5
Excellent product which I used to replace/upgrade the old traditional “moving part” 6GB hard drive in my Ipod mini
Rating: 5 / 5