Kingston CF Cards

Subject: Kingston CF Cards 2009-04-06, 07:31

Can anyone give me any advice on whether Kingston CF Cards are any good (slow, fast etc) compared to Sandisk please?

Thanks

Admin Location : East Midlands Spotter Watch Member : Yes

I have a 2GB Kingston and it is very slow.

It is now used for Static.

Are you still using your 350D ? I'd opt for the Sandisk Extreme's

Location : Nr Gatwick, Surrey

Razor, I use Lexar Premium Series 60x and have found to be the best. Rgds Dave
PS they also include Rescue Pro software to recover files as well.

Subject: Re: Kingston CF Cards 2009-04-06, 08:21

Sadly yes, still using my old 350D with dodgy lenses.
I use Sandisk at the moment.

Thanks for the replies Lee/Dave.

Location : Northwood

I use then Kingston x133 cards with my 40D and have no trouble writing to them, dont find them slow at all even when shooting multiple images of flying aircraft, I do not beleive in holding down the button down and 'machine gunning' the object - in fact i find i get less keepers doing it that way.

i have just got some 8gb cards from 7dayshop - 12.49 each including postage

Location : Oxfordshire

Before you go investing in fast cards, make sure that the camera can take advantage of them - apart from the 50D, AFAIK, NO Canon body (even the 1D series, although happy to be corrected) is UDMA compatible (the 300x speed cards) so the Sandisk Extreme IV or Lexar top end cards will show no improvement of performance over the Extreme IIIs. In fact the cameras themselves have read/write speeds only just faster than the Ultra II Cards (20D for example has write speed of about 9MB/s).

For Nikons however, it's different as the D300 and upwards are UDMA compatible and make use of these really fast cards.

HTH
Dave.

Moderator Location : Between Coventry and Leicester

Kingston user for the past 3-4 years. blow sandisk away ,
just as fast , much better relibality. no need for back up disc;s etc as they do not go wrong,
so good they have a life time guarantee.
nuff said.

used sandisk and lost images , to many fakes and overhyped
with a high price tag.

Location : Norfolk Spotter Watch Member : no

for what its worth ive got a 2gB extreme IV and a 4gB extreme III both used in a 350d and there is DEFINITELY a difference in the write speed the extreme IV id much faster to write to