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4Gb CF $103!

Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:14 pm

I am known to take risks so I purchased a 4Gb OEM (no labels) Samsung CF card from HK. It took six days to arrive - popped into camera, formatted and away it went.

Total cost inc postage $112.00 - not bad for 4Gb :wink: :D
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Postby Glen on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:17 pm

:shock:
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:20 pm

Glen - bargains are where you find them, you just have to look :wink:
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Postby NikonUser on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:21 pm

Any idea of the speed of the card?

That's mighty cheap!! (Considering I paid $280 not very long ago!!)

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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:22 pm

NikonUser wrote:Any idea of the speed of the card?

That's mighty cheap!! (Considering I paid $280 not very long ago!!)

Paul


150x - they claim :!:
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Postby Geoff on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:24 pm

Holy Crap Chris - that's wicked!!! Nice find my friend :) :D
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Postby the foto fanatic on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:26 pm

NikonUser wrote:Any idea of the speed of the card?

Paul


Six days, apparently! :lol:
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:29 pm

cricketfan wrote:
NikonUser wrote:Any idea of the speed of the card?

Paul


Six days, apparently! :lol:


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby gstark on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:35 pm

sirhc55 wrote:
cricketfan wrote:
NikonUser wrote:Any idea of the speed of the card?

Paul


Six days, apparently! :lol:


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Trevor!

Actually, Chris, how does the D2H handle it? That would be a good way to assess performance
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:35 pm

This was an eBay purchase from Flashman852 out of HK.

He has 111,500 feedback and over 900 negatives for the year!

But investigation showed that most negatives were from drongos either new to eBay or just plain idiots.

I never look at one price but search - for example CR123a rechargeable 3V (not 3.6V) batteries and charger from Tenergy in the US after an exhaustive search of both HK and OZ.

The motto is ”It pays to use your fingers on the keyboard” :wink:
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:36 pm

Gary - you must be familiar with the Uzi - very much the same on the D2Hs :lol:
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Postby MCWB on Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:27 pm

Sounds good Chris! One question, can you fill it with 4 GB of data? There are fake cards popping up on Ebay that seem to have high capacities when you format them through some firmware trickery, but when you actually try to fill them with data they come up short. :(
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Postby Geoff on Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:29 pm

I bought a card from flashman not long ago - no probs as a seller in my opinion.
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Postby Oscar on Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:06 pm

I have also bought a couple of cards from Flahman with no problems about 18mths ago.
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:57 pm

MCWB wrote:Sounds good Chris! One question, can you fill it with 4 GB of data? There are fake cards popping up on Ebay that seem to have high capacities when you format them through some firmware trickery, but when you actually try to fill them with data they come up short. :(


Just loaded 3.5Gb onto the card - no problem :)
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Postby admajic on Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:01 pm

Heres a few cards from OCAU wiki is it one of these?

http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Fake_Memory_Cards
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Re: CF

Postby sirhc55 on Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:11 pm

admajic wrote:Heres a few cards from OCAU wiki is it one of these?

http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Fake_Memory_Cards


No :!:
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Postby Matt. K on Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:26 pm

Gary familiar with an UZI???? He is taking this new forum much too seriously! :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Postby MCWB on Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:29 pm

sirhc55 wrote:Just loaded 3.5Gb onto the card - no problem :)

Nice! 8) 8) 8)
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Postby Dougie on Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:52 pm

Had been watching these for a couple of weeks now and you have helped me make up my mind.
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Postby Yi-P on Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:00 pm

Thats wicked!!

Thanks for the head-up Chris :D
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