Anybody used the Transcend 16 gig card with the Canon XSi?

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Archibald - 29 Apr 2008 03:03 GMT

I'm wondering if the camera recognizes the full 16GB, any problems
formatting, speed, reliability, and so on.

Archibald

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RichA - 29 Apr 2008 04:16 GMT

> I'm wondering if the camera recognizes the full 16GB, any problems
> formatting, speed, reliability, and so on.
>
> Archibald

I doubt it. There are plenty of reputable memory companies
(thankfully) beginning to erode the nutty pricing of the main two,
Lexar and Sandisk. Companies like Transcend and Kingston are finally
bringing some competition to the mix.

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Archibald - 29 Apr 2008 05:25 GMT

>> I'm wondering if the camera recognizes the full 16GB, any problems
>> formatting, speed, reliability, and so on.
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>Lexar and Sandisk. Companies like Transcend and Kingston are finally
>bringing some competition to the mix.

Kingston and Transcend have been around for quite a while but have not
had much effect on pricing of the big guys.

Archibald

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Don R. - 29 Apr 2008 15:00 GMT

I have 4 of these cards and they are great. Fast and reliable and priced
right.

> I'm wondering if the camera recognizes the full 16GB, any problems
> formatting, speed, reliability, and so on.
>
> Archibald

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Frank Arthur - 29 Apr 2008 16:18 GMT

I am puzzled that a person would have a need for four 16GB media cards
for their digital camera. How many images would you need to use a
single 16GB card?

>I have 4 of these cards and they are great. Fast and reliable and
>priced right.
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>> Archibald

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Archibald - 29 Apr 2008 16:51 GMT

>I am puzzled that a person would have a need for four 16GB media cards
>for their digital camera. How many images would you need to use a
>single 16GB card?

1000.

Archibald

>>I have 4 of these cards and they are great. Fast and reliable and
>>priced right.
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>>> Archibald

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Frank Arthur - 29 Apr 2008 17:36 GMT

> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:18:44 -0400, "Frank Arthur"
> <Art@Arthurian.com>
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>
> Archibald

Okay. Now with your 4 cards you may produce 4,000 images.
In wekk? A month? A year? And what do you do with that many?
How many of the 1000 images on a card are really good images worth
keeping?
Are they for business or industrial use?
The reason I ask is that in my Slide Film days- not really that long
ago- I might
take as many as 360 images on a vacation of weeks. I might possibly
produce
36 really nice ones and maybe 6 or so worth printing. I'm just awed by
the concept of
having 4,000 images available for one shooting.

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thepixelfreak - 29 Apr 2008 18:02 GMT

> The reason I ask is that in my Slide Film days- not really that long
> ago- I might
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> the concept of
> having 4,000 images available for one shooting.

Odd that you mention that. I still have a roll of slide film in a
camera that I need to get developed. Anyway. I've given slide shows in
the past and everyone says 'man, you really should get that enlarged
and framed' bla bla..

I've noticed that I took better pictures with slide film than I do with
digital. Possibly having to think much more about the exposure,
composition. Realizing that I'm going to have to pay for the material
to develop the slides, mount them etc. Not getting back instant
feedback.

Now with Digital, I take more pictures than I did with slide (even bulk
film rolls) but a smaller percentage have that WOW effect on me.

-- Give 1000000 monkeys a camera, sooner or later one will turn out as
good as Ansel Adams.

thepixelfreak

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____ - 29 Apr 2008 23:29 GMT

> Now with Digital, I take more pictures than I did with slide (even bulk
> film rolls) but a smaller percentage have that WOW effect on me.

Then thats a problem. To be resolved.

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Allen - 30 Apr 2008 02:56 GMT

<snip>

> -- Give 1000000 monkeys a camera, sooner or later one will turn out as
> good as Ansel Adams.
>
> thepixelfreak

But can it play the piano? Or will that require another monkey?
Allen

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Archibald - 29 Apr 2008 19:19 GMT

>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:18:44 -0400, "Frank Arthur"
>> <Art@Arthurian.com>
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>the concept of
>having 4,000 images available for one shooting.

Well, I don't plan to have 4 of them... might be nice, though.

Back in my film days, I would budget 2 rolls a day. That's 1000
pictures for a 14-day trip.

On a trip to southern Florida this last winter I took about 250 shots
a day on some days... that is not that extraordinary, I would say.
That would fill up a 16 gig card in only 4 days.

If you have a laptop with you or don't mind finding Internet cafes to
unload the cards, then you wouldn't need a 16 GB card; otherwise it
might be essential.

Archibald

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OldBoy - 29 Apr 2008 17:17 GMT

>I am puzzled that a person would have a need for four 16GB media cards for
>their digital camera. How many images would you need to use a single 16GB
>card?

About 860 (RAW+JPG, EOS 40D)

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Paul J Gans - 30 Apr 2008 02:43 GMT

In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems OldBoy <nono@planet.nl> wrote:

>>I am puzzled that a person would have a need for four 16GB media cards for
>>their digital camera. How many images would you need to use a single 16GB
>>card?

>About 860 (RAW+JPG, EOS 40D)

Considering that some folks shoot several *thousand* pictures
while away on vactions such as an African Safari, carrying four
such cards does't seem excessive to me.

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Eric Miller - 29 Apr 2008 20:03 GMT

"Frank Arthur" <Art@Arthurian.com> wrote in news:e_GRj.64925$Q52.18919
@bignews9.bellsouth.net:

> I am puzzled that a person would have a need for four 16GB media cards
> for their digital camera. How many images would you need to use a
> single 16GB card?

At the last small triathlon that I shot, trying to get at least one shot of
each participant in each activity plus a few shots of the start, transition
areas, spectators, etc., I shot nearly 800 images in just over three hours.

Of course, I didn't shoot raw images, but I could easily see taking several
thousands of images at a bigger event without time to download them to a
laptop. Race participants like to buy shots of themselves and some will pay
for enlargements, so a few 16gb cards aren't exactly what I would call
crazy. There are bound to be other types of events that could warrant that
kind of storage capacity.

Eric Miller
www.colibripeppersauce.com

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Robert Sneddon - 01 May 2008 12:37 GMT

>I am puzzled that a person would have a need for four 16GB media cards
>for their digital camera. How many images would you need to use a
>single 16GB card?

I've got a Canon A640 that can record 640x480 video which has turned
out to be useful on occasion, allowing me to video panel discussions and
such at conferences. Unfortunately its in-camera compression isn't that
good so it takes about 8Gb to store an hour of video. Afterwards I can
recode it on my computer to something sensible like 1Gb without much
loss of quality.

http://www.4shared.com/file/25022066/2e1733f7/cablecar.html

Here's a video I shot in Japan last year with the A640. The original
video in-camera was 350Mb for 3 minutes of recording. After recoding, it
compressed in xVid to 20Mb with little or no loss of image quality.

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