Compact Flash Cards
 

I see 7dayshop are doing a 1gb CF card for £15.99 - any body tried these cards?.

Emmmmm - Last week they were showing Viking 1Gb for £27.

I may of bought @ £16 for the hell of it as I was ordering some spare batteries for the 20D.

I bought a Viking 256Mb from them a few years ago. It was OK no problem but slow by todays standards. I suspect the 1GB will be very slow as their 512mb is more expensive. Unless that is going to drop in price too.

Download speed will be the main issue unless your taking 3 fps all the time.

I bought a x50 Kingston Elite Pro 1Gb via ebay from a guy in croydon for £32 inclusive of vat & pp which arrived within 2 days.

No, but I would be concerned that 7dayshop have no customer support phone number.

It is worth looking at the read and write speeds. When transferring large numbers of files from the card to your PC, the speed can make a huge difference in the transfer time.

I bought a 2GB iPro card from davoom. It seems good.

Leif

"I would be concerned that 7dayshop have no customer support phone number."

You can always e-mail them.

"It is worth looking at the read and write speeds."

This where they are crafty and don't quote actual figures.

I suspect that at this price it is one of the first generation 1GB cards.

At that price i'm willing to take a gamble. I've just ordered mine. I'll let you know how I get on when it arrives.

Rob.

After some experimentation I settled on Sandisk Extreme III cards. They're fast and reliable, I swear by them.

I found a place that sells them very cheaply http://www.photo-scotland.co.uk.

I use www.picstop.co.uk Not the cheapest but the P&P is cheap, which makes small value orders viable. Delivery is very, very fast. Excellent.

Duncan.

I had problems with trying to set set up the software for a USB card-reader bought from 7dayshop.com 3 years ago, and I was very pleased with their quality of support. One of their staff sent a replacement software copy and eventually spent a lot of time on the 'phone to talk me through the process, that eventually turned out to be my mis-understanding of the sequence of plug-and-play with W98se.
Needless to say that I am very impressed with the service (and particularly the prices!) of 7dayshop.com, therefore I have bought many items, especially when they have "a free postage" offer on.

Roger

I have no problems buying stuff from 7dayshop. Last year I bought my Canon 1.4x tc from them at a great price (£190 plus I claimed £35 back from Canon with a rebate voucher). I am at this moment waiting delivery of 10x42 waterproof binoculars from them.

So what was the verdict ?

I got one and it works just as well as my Kingston 50x, IMO a bargain.

Mine has arrived and i'm using it. It's fine.

The annoying thing is that it and my jessops card both report themselves as Toshiba cards and thier serial numbers are only a few digits apart.

Jessops 1Gb card = £80 ish
7dayshop 1Gb card = £16

Now I know jessops have to make a profit but that's a bit much. I used Jessops because i'd left my only card in the card reader at work and wanted to go to Willington Gravel pits that weekend. It was only a month or two ago so it's not like there was a huge price drop in the meantime either.

Oh well, lesson learned.

Rob

Did you find the speed was the same ?

I might pop one on the order next time I buy something from them.

Speed seems identical. I truly believe that the 7dayshop one was made on the same production line to identical standards as Jessops own branded cards.

Rob.

If they are the same speed it sounds like a very good deal indeed!! well done.

I've bought one or two bits form them over the last month or so - mostly filter stuff and they've been quite good. Not all items in stock at time of order so arrived in dribs and drabs, but only paid one off nominal postage and they send an account update regularly.

You get what you pay for I guess.

Well I'd go for them over Jessops anyday. Lord knows how many problems I've had with Jessops. Leif

Now that's annoying. I just checked out 7dayshop and their prices are great. The same model battery that I paid $100 Cdn sellin for $14.00 Cdn. The catch is that they don't ship to Canada.

I used to buy all my batteries and film from 7day shop. A battery sold on the high street by a shop such as Boots for £12 was about £2 from 7dayshop. I do wonder what is going on.

Leif

Just recieved my 1 gb card from 7dayshop. Can see no difference from my SanDisk ultra II for write speed in the camera. Uploading from card reader to computer is actually quicker than the SanDisk !. Time will tell if it turns out to be reliable but first impressions are that it is a great buy.

Well guys, on your recommendations have ordered one today.

I have used 7day shop for ink cartridges & paper for some time and always found their sevice spot on :D

I bought 2 of their 1GB SD cards as spares. Well at that price it wold be rude not to ;) They have a Dane Elect label on them. However when comparing write speeds with a Sandisk ExIII card I would say the Sandisk is over twice as fast.

The important thing for me though is not write speeds to the camera but download speeds to the PC via cardreader. Again the Sandisk is twice as fast. I suppose those with Fuji S2/S3's might argue with me there though :D

Maybe the 7dayshop SD cards are not as quick as the CF cards that they sell. Also the SanDisk EXIII would be a lot quicker than my ultra II. Either way they seem a good buy.

I would go along with Picstop Extreme III cards. Using them for a few years now and no problems.

Yes, they are. Toshiba/Hitachi are one of the few true manufacturers of Flash memory. Another is Texas Instruments.
It's rarer to see the actual manufacturers names on the products.....most of them are batch contract manufactured for others.