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is high speed important in Compact flash cards?

Nov 2, 2004 1:12AM PST

I recently bought a Canon A80 digital Camera, and of course I am looking at buying a bigger compact flash card for it. I am wondering if there is a noticible difference in performance between a normal compact flash card, and one that is rated high speed, such as lexar's 1gb 40X CF card. Should I spend the extra $20 and get that one or does it not really matter and I should go with a generic one for much less?

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Re: is high speed important in Compact flash cards?
Nov 2, 2004 1:51AM PST

In short? No. Haven't felt any difference between them.

Bob

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Re: is high speed important in Compact flash cards?
Nov 4, 2004 9:49PM PST

My own opinion is that the faster cards are better for burst modes where the camera needs to write more to the card. I have a Rebel and an A80 and use the faster, more expensive cards in the Rebel for sporting events. I recently went to buy a second 512 UltraII card and saw for the same price I could get a regular SanDisk 1GB. That is fine for individual pictures and it worked well on my vacation.