Cheap compact flash

Hi All,

Picked up a couple of these dane-elec 1GB for $10 each. Any issue with cheap Compact flash

Thanks

Joe

The biggest issue you tend to have with cheap media is that they tend to have slower read and write speeds - which is obviously important for many types of photography and transferring your photos at the end of the day.

I'm not familiar with that brand in particular, but you may want to test your camera's burst speed with the media if that's something you might do underwater as well as write speeds in general.

With most 3rd party accessories, the quality tends to be at least "a bit worse" than the main brands - otherwise the brand would be better known.

But for $10, it's not a bad price for spares and backups.

The biggest issue you tend to have with cheap media is that they tend to have slower read and write speeds - which is obviously important for many types of photography and transferring your photos at the end of the day.

 

I'm not familiar with that brand in particular, but you may want to test your camera's burst speed with the media if that's something you might do underwater as well as write speeds in general.

 

With most 3rd party accessories, the quality tends to be at least "a bit worse" than the main brands - otherwise the brand would be better known.

 

But for $10, it's not a bad price for spares and backups.

thanks will give it a try

In case anybody is looking, I picked up a couple Sandisk 4GB Extreme 3's from Adorama this week for $34.95 (after $30 rebate). Think that runs until the end of May.

Rick