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Sandisk just released some new CF cards.

600X (90MB/s) at 16, 32 and 64GB sizes. Looking really hot!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/14/sand ... key-pokey/

http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/pr ... ility.aspx

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Canon EOS 5DmkII + BG-E6 + Canon EOS 40D + BG-E2N + Canon EOS 33
Canon 17-40 F/4L USM + Canon 24-70 F/2.8L USM + Canon 28mm F/1.8 USM + Canon 70-200 F/2.8L USM IS + Canon 85mm F/1.8 USM
Canon Speedlite 580EX II + Canon Speedlite 540EZ + 2 x Nikon SB-80DX
Cactus V2s Wireless Trigger - 5 x Cactus V2s Wireless Reciever

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Cards that cost more than a camera...

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Graham
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Thats about double the speed of an Extreme IV isn't it? Still not fast enough for unlimited continuous raw on the 50D though

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Yeah the Extreme IV is 45 mb/s (that is UDMA if i'm right)

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Victor
Nikon D300 - Nikkor 16-85 VR - Nikkor 70-200 2.8 VR I
www.victorhoffmann.com

Not quite sure how much faster UDMA can go before we reach its edge and CFAST has to take over.

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Canon EOS 5DmkII + BG-E6 + Canon EOS 40D + BG-E2N + Canon EOS 33
Canon 17-40 F/4L USM + Canon 24-70 F/2.8L USM + Canon 28mm F/1.8 USM + Canon 70-200 F/2.8L USM IS + Canon 85mm F/1.8 USM
Canon Speedlite 580EX II + Canon Speedlite 540EZ + 2 x Nikon SB-80DX
Cactus V2s Wireless Trigger - 5 x Cactus V2s Wireless Reciever

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Believe the ATA interface goes up to 133 MB/s so not much room left...

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

is Extended ATA 300MB/s or is that something i'm pulling out my arss?

Something is 166 and 300 .. maybe thats SCSI...

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Canon EOS 5DmkII + BG-E6 + Canon EOS 40D + BG-E2N + Canon EOS 33
Canon 17-40 F/4L USM + Canon 24-70 F/2.8L USM + Canon 28mm F/1.8 USM + Canon 70-200 F/2.8L USM IS + Canon 85mm F/1.8 USM
Canon Speedlite 580EX II + Canon Speedlite 540EZ + 2 x Nikon SB-80DX
Cactus V2s Wireless Trigger - 5 x Cactus V2s Wireless Reciever

MY FLICKR!

What I find a lot more interesting than those overpriced Pro Extremes, are the new "Normal" extremes!

60mb/s Cards at almost half the price as the older Extreme IV 45MB/s models.. that's just great!

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II | Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM | Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM | Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
...and a lot of lighting stuff. -> complete list of equipment

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Where is that...

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Canon EOS 5DmkII + BG-E6 + Canon EOS 40D + BG-E2N + Canon EOS 33
Canon 17-40 F/4L USM + Canon 24-70 F/2.8L USM + Canon 28mm F/1.8 USM + Canon 70-200 F/2.8L USM IS + Canon 85mm F/1.8 USM
Canon Speedlite 580EX II + Canon Speedlite 540EZ + 2 x Nikon SB-80DX
Cactus V2s Wireless Trigger - 5 x Cactus V2s Wireless Reciever

MY FLICKR!

My shop has them listed as following (well the Extreme IV is "end of life" and won't be delivered anymore) 150 Swiss francs equals about 100 euros:

http://digitec.ch/ProdukteVergleichen1. ... 443,174554

here's the link from the sandisk homepage with the list prices: http://sandisk.com/products/dslr/sandis ... -card.aspx

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II | Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM | Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM | Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
...and a lot of lighting stuff. -> complete list of equipment

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Blog

I remember paying £99 for a Lexar 128MG card and its worthless now,

So how quickly with one of these new Sandisk 64GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card selling at £549.99 at the momet be worthless like my old CF card

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Canon 50D, EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS, EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS, EF 50mm f1.8, SlingShot 100,
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Probably not that quickly. When I was shopping around in early 2008, the Sandisk Extreme IV was selling for about £80. Nearly 2 years later, it's now selling for £60. That's not a huge drop, to be honest. See this graph for evidence.

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PhilipGoh.com

I just received a 16GB extreme pro card. I bought from Amazon France, so I was expecting to get a real card etc.

The problem is, I just tested it vs my Extreme IV 8GB card. It is slower in every test. Needless to say I will be contacting sandisk regarding this to check if 1. if it is real, 2. if it is a bad copy or something, as the performance is nothing like it should be. On my 7D the max burst for raw files is 28 over 5 seconds (I ran the test several times). With the Extreme IV I get 31.

Copying to my mac the extreme IV averages around 35MB a second. The Extreme pro about 30.

Clearly something is up!

When I rang Scandisk up, they could only tell me if the serial number was genuine and it was. but the card was fake, as I found other with the same card and same serial number

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Canon 50D, EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS, EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS, EF 50mm f1.8, SlingShot 100,
MyFlickr

I have a response from Sandisk. Needless to say, I will be testing with my 5D2 ASAP.....

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Thanks again for calling SanDisk Technical Support. It is our goal to make sure you have all the resources you need to get the most from your product.

Here is a relevant site with performance specifications of more cards in different devices: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/conten ... 0043-10255
The 7D Canon camera is not one of them but as read on a different professional Photographer forum the 7D does not benefit from the UDMA6 specification of the card while the 5D Mk II does.
It is recommended to look for any firmware updates for the 7D camera as that might give you the performance boost you expect.

Please refer to your My SanDisk at http://kb.sandisk.com anytime to see all of your incident history and product registration information. You can log in using your email address as your login and the password that you created.

Also, you can visit http://kb.sandisk.com, our online keyword searchable Knowledgebase, to easily find answers to your Technical Support and Customer Service questions for all of SanDisk's products. Simply enter your search terms and our Knowledgebase will search an extensive database of commonly asked questions as well as our online forums at http://www.sandisk.com/sandisk-support/forums to provide you with the most complete answers possible.

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