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p.1 #1 · What CF Card for Canon 50D

Does anyone have a favorite brand of compact flash card? Does the 50D take Type I or Type II cards? What sort of speeds are needed?
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Jun 30, 2009 at 05:06 PM

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p.1 #2 · What CF Card for Canon 50D

Type II is long dead.

Check the RG database for write speeds.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/camera_multi_page.asp?cid=6007-9672

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Jun 30, 2009 at 06:56 PM

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p.1 #3 · What CF Card for Canon 50D

I own the 40D & use the Sandisk Extreme III 2GB CF card that has 30 bytes of read/write speed. Was told that a 4GB card is wasting if you're only a frequent shooter. The advice came from Pro that i have made friends with just recently.

Jul 03, 2009 at 06:02 PM

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p.1 #4 · What CF Card for Canon 50D

The Canon 50D takes both on the CF card 1 or 2

Jul 03, 2009 at 06:08 PM

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p.1 #5 · What CF Card for Canon 50D

I can't imagine any ancient Type II card that one would want to use in a 50D. Most of them were microdrives. 50D files are rather large (20MB) and the camera has a high throughput, so an 8GB card is a good match.

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Jul 03, 2009 at 09:12 PM

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p.1 #6 · What CF Card for Canon 50D

A handful of Sandisk Extreme III's should do the job. Size will depend on how much you shoot but with 15 MP RAW's I'd go for 8 GB cards.

Jul 04, 2009 at 02:57 AM


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