Rare pierces Posted November 28, 2008 #1 Share Posted November 28, 2008 I just ordered three Sandisk Extreme III 8 GB Compact Flash cards for $29.95 each from Adorama.com Link: http://www.adorama.com/Search-Results.tpl?page=searchresults&searchinfo=Extreme%20III They also have the SDHC version available. Here's the deal part: SanDisk has a rebate available that gives you $70 back if you buy three at a time...Net cost = $6.62 each! Rebate Link: http://www.adorama.com/pdfs/rebates/sandiskx_011709.pdf Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariemorgan Posted November 28, 2008 #2 Share Posted November 28, 2008 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! too bad I didn't notice this earlier... I just bought the 4 gig from best buy.. but now I have two :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipmaster Posted November 28, 2008 #3 Share Posted November 28, 2008 If you have a 12Meg camera and are casual shooter doing only jpg you'll get about 2,000 per card and now have 6,000 picture capacity If you go raw+jpg you are looking at 600 pictures for the 3 cards. For the jpg shooter on a 7 day cruise you are talking a picture every 1.3 minutes. Okay okay you are on a 14 day alaska cruise, you are down to only a picture every 2.6 minutes. Figure you don't take much when you sleep, eat, you got enough for a shot every 30 seconds or so. Don't forget super fast computer to batch process raw --> jpg, WB, crop, sharpen :eek: ;) :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare pierces Posted November 28, 2008 Author #4 Share Posted November 28, 2008 If you have a 12Meg camera and are casual shooter doing only jpg you'll get about 2,000 per card and now have 6,000 picture capacity If you go raw+jpg you are looking at 600 pictures for the 3 cards. For the jpg shooter on a 7 day cruise you are talking a picture every 1.3 minutes. Okay okay you are on a 14 day alaska cruise, you are down to only a picture every 2.6 minutes. Figure you don't take much when you sleep, eat, you got enough for a shot every 30 seconds or so. Don't forget super fast computer to batch process raw --> jpg, WB, crop, sharpen :eek: ;) :D How does it calculate for a prolific shooter shooting 5-6MB x-fine JPEG most of the time with exposure and/or DRO+ bracketing (and occasionally RAW when conditions dictate...say 4%-7.3% of the time), a second 6MP camera body that is set to x-fine who has their eye on a higher-resolution successor to his beloved A700 in the next year or two....?:D I realize I didn't really need 24GB of really fast memory! The way the rebate was structured, buying either one or two cards would have cost about $15 total and since three cost only about $20, I determined that a spare that cost less than $5 was too good to pass up! I figure if I have lemonade instead of a Corona when I get on the ship Sunday, it's paid for! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowbird1 Posted November 29, 2008 #5 Share Posted November 29, 2008 I just ordered three Sandisk Extreme III 8 GB Compact Flash cards for $29.95 each from Adorama.com Link: http://www.adorama.com/Search-Results.tpl?page=searchresults&searchinfo=Extreme%20III They also have the SDHC version available. Here's the deal part: SanDisk has a rebate available that gives you $70 back if you buy three at a time...Net cost = $6.62 each! Rebate Link: http://www.adorama.com/pdfs/rebates/sandiskx_011709.pdf Dave Dave, great did you have to post this, now I had to buy 3 of them :D That is just too good of a deal to pass up, even if you use them for storage. I am printing the rebate now, when are you sending that in? Thanks, Vince My D300 will be happy with these, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowbird1 Posted December 6, 2008 #6 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Dave, great did you have to post this, now I had to buy 3 of them :D That is just too good of a deal to pass up, even if you use them for storage. I am printing the rebate now, when are you sending that in? Thanks, Vince My D300 will be happy with these, I think. They arrived and look great in the boxes, definitely a great deal. My brother ordered 3 of the SD ones and I will buy one of those from him for another camera. Now I need to send the rebate in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare pierces Posted December 8, 2008 Author #7 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Dave, great did you have to post this, now I had to buy 3 of them :D That is just too good of a deal to pass up, even if you use them for storage. I am printing the rebate now, when are you sending that in? Thanks, Vince My D300 will be happy with these, I think. Got home yesterday at about 9:00pm...rebate out for mail today at 7:00am! :D Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEARFACE Posted December 9, 2008 #8 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Dave, Welcome home, I don't need to ask if you had a good time. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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