Reasons To Stock Up On Card Compact Flash

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By Anne Ahira

Only a few years ago, I was flabbergasted by the cost of card compact flash memory for my digital camera. My family was planning a trip, and I needed a bigger capacity card that I could fill up with photographs.

Today, I’m still flabbergasted but that’s because of how incredibly affordable these cards have become. If you don’t have very many floating around your home, you need to consider some good reasons to stock up.

Uses of Card Compact Flash

Those card compact flash cards can really come in handy nowadays. The new digital camera I purchased uses them, although my daughter’s Sony camera only takes the proprietary memory stick storage. Almost every other digital camera on the market uses these flash memory cards. They can hold a large number of photos, but remember the higher megapixel rating of your photos the larger the file is going to be.

Many of the MP3 players on the market are also uses card compact flash as a way to expand their capacity. This is a nice option for people who don’t really know how much music and video storage space they need or for people who want to be able to exchange cards with other people as a way to share their musical tastes. Again, you’re going to need a pretty large capacity for this purpose.

If you need to move data from one computer to another one, perhaps as a way to bring a presentation from home to school or work, using these cards can make it fairly easy. Smaller ones can work well for this purpose unless you’re going to be transferring large amounts of files.

Choosing the Right Card Compact Flash

One nice thing about this type of memory is that most of them are rated very high with consumers regardless of their manufacturer. Back when I purchased a 1 GB card for my digital camera, I paid $50 in a retail store. Now the exact same card can be purchased at Amazon for $18. And that was only two or three years ago.

Price is no longer a reason to choose the lesser known manufacturers. In fact, prices are comparable among all of the models. The only difference seems to come from the size of the card compact flash and even that isn’t all that significant. A 2 GB Sandisk Ultra II card costs less than $8 while the 4 GB model costs less than $18. While the price is a little bit more than doubled, it’s still a pretty good deal.

Now if you’re going to be using this flash memory in a camera or MP3 player, your best bet is to get the largest storage capacity possible for your budget. At the highest capacity levels, prices do go up pretty high.

For example, the SanDisk Extreme III 32 GB model costs a hefty $216. That’s more than what most digital cameras and MP3 players cost. However, if you need the storage, you might not think it’s such a bad deal for card compact flash memory.

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Here's Card Compact Flash Selections:

Sandisk 16GB Extreme UDMA 60MB/s Compact Flash Car...	Customer Review: I've been using a Canon 5D Mark II for the last 2 weeks and got this card to use with it. It has worked very well and kept up with my photo taking with no problems. I've also used it to capture video and that has been problem free as well. I have b... Read More	$223.99 (6)
Kingston Elite Pro 32 GB 133x CompactFlash Memory ...	Customer Review: This card is big and reliable for the price. Don't expect super fast(my 7D does 8 FPS) cause this card ain't gonna do it however, if you are taking one shot at a time, this is your card if you need a lot of room. As for video, it handles 720p out o... Read More	(28)
I'm Learning to Multiply: Compact Disc (Flash Card...	Customer Review: Click Here for More Info	$18.99
Delkin Devices 1 GB CompactFlach Card...	Customer Review: How many pictures will it store? It is the most commonly asked question from digital camera enthusiast but usually the question that is the most difficult to get a straight answer about. Well, considering I worked in the memory industry for over 7... Read More	$39.99 (3)
(More Colors Available) Secure digital media memor...	Customer Review: I'm a fairly new digital camera user......which I actually hate even though my camera is wonderful.....wouldn't be using a digital if Kodak hadn't lost seven, yes seven, rolls of priceless film......anyway, since I've switched to digital and memory c... Read More	$29.95 (1)