Review: Transcend 133x 8GB CF Card

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Transcend 133x 8GB CF記憶卡, originally uploaded by tern.

Hmmm….so recently I decided to take the plunge and move up to a 8GB CF card for my 40D. I have started shooting in RAW+JPG and those files take up some serious space.

I was hesitant because 8GB of images is a lot to lose if a card goes south. But all the cool kids are doing and Dizzle works hard to remain a cool kid (at least to my kids anyway).

I started looking around and reading some threads on different photo forums…I found a ton of folks touting the greatness of the Transcend brand cards. OK, add it to the list.

Well I then found a online shop that sells the Transcend cards for $22.25 with free shipping…kind of hard to pass that up. And I have all these online folks who say the card is great and they swear by it and blah, blah, blah.

So 3 days pass and there in my mailbox is my card…WOOHOO!

Well I go out to shoot my sons football game. Now the 40D is capable of 6FPS, the buffer can hold something like 24 RAW images so I am good to go right? WRONG!

While the camera can do all that and I can hold the shutter down and just let the buffer fill, something was wrong. I was getting horrible pausing in my spray and pray football fun. At first I thought my batteries were low, but I had just charged both of them (I use the grip so I have two batteries at all times).

I continued on and kept experiencing this weird issue. I had not encountered this before and I have used the continuos shooting mode on the camera many times over.

About halftime I decided to change my CF card and went back to my SanDisk Extreme III 4GB card. Odd, second half I did not have any issues with the buffer or pausing.

Yep, that oh so great high speed Transcend card is not so high speed after all. I wasn’t even on high speed mode, just the basic continuos shooting mode.

So while the card did not fail in the sense of me losing photos, it did fail for me in the sense that I missed some shots because of the time it took to write to the card. GRRRR!

I will keep the Transcend card for portraits and what not, the speed should not be an issue there, but I will definitely make note to NOT use it for any type of sports shooting every again.

I will be spending the extra cash to pick up a proven SanDisk card in the next week or so.