Affordable CF cards in the Valley.

[Joe Copalman]

I'm looking to add another 4GB or 8GB CF card to my arsenal before our El Centro trip this Friday and was just wondering where the most affordable, quality CF cards are to be found.  I checked out Best Buy (4GB for $60), Fry's (a mix of sizes by a bunch of manufacturers I have never heard of, some very reasonably-priced, but I'm guessing that has to do with manufacturer names like "Patriot," "Kingston," and "Transcend"), and Tempe Camera (8GB for $100).  I keep hearing people talk about how cheap CF cards are these days, but I'm just not seeing it out there.  Where should I be looking?

Thanks!

Joe

[Bubak]

I use google and buy on-line 95% of my gear...use SanDisk cards for years, never problem.

[Paul Dumm]

I hate to say this joe but, Wal-mart looks the most affordable

[cpasley]

Hey Joe if you can make it over to Fry's electronics (on t-bird) with me before Friday I can get you the hook up on their employee discount ,which is usually pretty substantial ,one of the benefits of working there for over 4 years is I still have a lot of friends that are still there plus my ex   ,but if you would like to check it out just let me know ,I am working every day till Friday but I get off at 1:30pm

You can call or text just keep in mind my ringer is broken and it only vibrates so I may not hear right away but I will respond
(602) 465-7153

[Rob Silliman]

I use google and buy on-line 95% of my gear...use SanDisk cards for years, never problem.

2nd for SanDisk cards.  Never had an issue w/ any of them.

[cpasley]

I use google and buy on-line 95% of my gear...use SanDisk cards for years, never problem.

2nd for SanDisk cards.  Never had an issue w/ any of them.

When I did work at fry's it was universaly known that sandisk did make some of the best storage devices ,I never minded paying a bit extra and they rewarded me in the end ,hence my sandisk 4GB microdrive ,approx 5 years old and the size of a cracker but it does still work ,most of the time ,lol

[jslugman]

Another thumbs-up for SanDisk though I replace mine when they're a couple of years old.

[Jay Beckman]

Costco now has 8Gb Sandisk cards on occasion.  They're not the Extreme IV fire-breathers but you really only need that kind of throughput for video.

They work fine for stills. Even at 10 FPS.

[cpasley]

Thats one reason I like the fact my camera uses SD ,its pretty cheap ,I bought a 8GB class 4 at Frys (with discount) for like a little over $10

[Stephen Marshall]

I got 2 Sandisk 4GB cards at costco for $30. That was over a year ago, but it may be worth another look!

[Dave S.]

A couple of things you might consider when buying cards are: speed and quality.  I found the website below that has a nice performance review of various cards.  Doesn't really speak to the quality issue, but does provide a nice overview on performance.  There's a pull-down menu that you can use to select your camera model, and from there you can review the performance of various camera/card combos (mostly Canon & Nikon cameras, along with one Sony model).

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007

- Dave

[wingsnstuff]

Thanks Dave

[jslugman]

Good point Dave. I know with some older DSLRs I could "overbuy" on write speed that my camera didn't support and have a card with speed I couldn't use.

Then again I remember when write speeds for PCMCIA cards was measured in minutes.