What is a good CF card for Nikon D70?

Local Fry's has been selling a 40X 1GB at a total cost about $70
fater rebate. Should I try to get the 80X card? Can the D70 utilize
the Lexar WA technology?

What about the other CF cards? Thanks.

http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/wa_cf.html

Andrew wrote:
Local Fry's has been selling a 40X 1GB at a total cost about $70
fater rebate. Should I try to get the 80X card? Can the D70 utilize
the Lexar WA technology?

What about the other CF cards? Thanks.

I just ordered a SanDisk 1 gig Ultra II from ecost. I paid $87 and get a
$15 mail-in rebate. I have a Lexar 40X CF card that is supposed to be fast,
but it is only about 1 second faster than a standard Viking CF on reading
and writing about 200 mb. Both cards are 256Mb. The SanDisk Ultra II is
supposed to be fast. I no longer trust Lexars 40x and 80x claims.

DDDD

"Andrew" wrote in message
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Local Fry's has been selling a 40X 1GB at a total cost about $70
fater rebate. Should I try to get the 80X card? Can the D70 utilize
the Lexar WA technology?

What about the other CF cards? Thanks.

So WA does not do anything with D70?

How is the Microdrive?

"Robert Barr" wrote in message
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http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/wa_cf.html

Andrew wrote:
Local Fry's has been selling a 40X 1GB at a total cost about $70
fater rebate. Should I try to get the 80X card? Can the D70 utilize
the Lexar WA technology?

What about the other CF cards? Thanks.

Andrew wrote:

So WA does not do anything with D70?

The D70 isn't on their list. That's why I left the link. If it
supported the WA, it's a safe bet Lexar would put it up there pronto, to
sell more cards.

It's still not a bad price for a 1 GB of any brand.

"Robert Barr" wrote in message
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Andrew wrote:

So WA does not do anything with D70?

The D70 isn't on their list. That's why I left the link. If it
supported the WA, it's a safe bet Lexar would put it up there pronto, to
sell more cards.

It's still not a bad price for a 1 GB of any brand.



I didn't know if that was how to read it or not...the D2H came out before
the
D70 and the D2H is the latest camera (at least from Nikon, I really haven't
made
much attention when other models came out) on the list. Don't know if that
means
nothing special happens with the D70 or if it is just too new to be on their
list. BTW,
you can get the 40X Lexar 1GB from ecost for about $52 after $30 rebate.

"Robert Barr" wrote in message
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Andrew wrote:

So WA does not do anything with D70?

The D70 isn't on their list. That's why I left the link. If it
supported the WA, it's a safe bet Lexar would put it up there pronto, to
sell more cards.

It's still not a bad price for a 1 GB of any brand.



I didn't know if that was how to read it or not...the D2H came out before
the
D70 and the D2H is the latest camera (at least from Nikon, I really haven't
made
much attention when other models came out) on the list. Don't know if that
means
nothing special happens with the D70 or if it is just too new to be on their
list. BTW,
you can get the 40X Lexar 1GB from ecost for about $52 after $30 rebate.

From: "Andrew"

Local Fry's has been selling a 40X 1GB at a total cost about $70
fater rebate. Should I try to get the 80X card?

I have two 40x Lexars and two 80x Lexars and on a Canon 1D Mark II there's only
about a 5% speed difference. Basically both are fast enough that they are
waiting for the camera to finish so doubling the card speed doesn't speed up
the data xfers very much so long as the card is at least 32x for THAT camera.

Can the D70 utilize
the Lexar WA technology?

What about the other CF cards? Thanks.

This site has good info on comparative speeds of different CF cards for the D70
.... excellent source of info. http://www.robgalbraith.com/ and use the CF Card
Database link to find the D70 (the site is down at the moment but try later and
it should work fine).

BTW my local Fry's is also having a CF card sale but it's $49 for a 4x 1 GB
Lexar, not 40x ... make sure you're getting a 40x

Bill

From: "Andrew"

Local Fry's has been selling a 40X 1GB at a total cost about $70
fater rebate. Should I try to get the 80X card?

I have two 40x Lexars and two 80x Lexars and on a Canon 1D Mark II there's only
about a 5% speed difference. Basically both are fast enough that they are
waiting for the camera to finish so doubling the card speed doesn't speed up
the data xfers very much so long as the card is at least 32x for THAT camera.

Can the D70 utilize
the Lexar WA technology?

What about the other CF cards? Thanks.

This site has good info on comparative speeds of different CF cards for the D70
.... excellent source of info. http://www.robgalbraith.com/ and use the CF Card
Database link to find the D70 (the site is down at the moment but try later and
it should work fine).

BTW my local Fry's is also having a CF card sale but it's $49 for a 4x 1 GB
Lexar, not 40x ... make sure you're getting a 40x

Bill

Robert Barr notes:

The D70 isn't on their list. That's why I left the link. If it
supported the WA, it's a safe bet Lexar would put it up there pronto, to
sell more cards.

It's still not a bad price for a 1 GB of any brand.

I noted New Egg had the SanDisk 1 gig for $72 about 3-4 days ago. Might still.

That's about what I paid for a 256 MB not too long ago.

Charlie Self
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