Any experience of Transcend Memory Cards?

[g3org3y]

Off to Japan so I expect the EOS to get a proper work out. As such, decided it's about time I bough another memory card.

Already I have 1x 8GB Sandisk Ultra, 2x 4GB Sandisk Extreme and a random brand 4GB card from Thailand.

Noticed on Amazon you can get a Transcend 8GB card for only 10.99 inc postage. Any experiences on this brand?

Item in question



Always shoot in RAW and to be honest I don't really go for multiple fps so I suspect the write speed shouldn't be an issue.

Opinions?

[K12beano]

Personal opinion: if speed not an issue stick to Sandisk, lower speed, from reputable sources like Amazon, Play, 7Day etc.

I am sure Transcend etc are good, but you don't want to mess with taking risks on trip-of-a-lifetime photos.

Plus - use a handful of smaller capacity cards and don't squeeze every last inch of space out of them!

[g3org3y]

Fair enough. I must admit, of the cars I have, the only one that's every caused me issues is the random one from Thailand. The Sandisk items have been brilliant.

This one looks a bit expensive!!!

Found an 8GB Sandisk Ultra for 17.50 inc p&p from Amazon so going to go for that. 8+8+4+4=24GB total and that's even before I count the random Thai card too. Should be plenty for Japan methinks!

[Mr-B]

I've got a couple of Transcend cards (8GB and 16GB) and they have been fine. Never closely looked at the capacity thing the other poster mentioned though. Speed was fine, only noticed a slow down when shooting fast fps and large fine RAW+JPEG. Mine were 400x and 600x, make sure you get compatible speed cards whichever brand you buy.

[Crafty_]

Had used several SDHC cards and now use 16Gb CF cards, never had an issue, the CFs keep up with my 7D just fine.

IMHO Sandisk sell on their name nowadays.

[nre]

I've used a couple of 16GB transcend CFs since I got my 7d 18 months ago, having used sandisk before that but and have had no problems whatsoever. Thinking about getting another at the minute.

[Dogsey]

Personally I use Kingston from here.

[K12beano]

g3org3y said:

This one looks a bit expensive!!!

Good Grief! How did you find that!!!!!!

Why does 24Gb not sound very much these days?

[frankowvette]

I have used Transcend CF cards with my DSLR's for a couple of years now, found them to be totally reliable.

The 600X UDMA card is great value for the performance, I have about 5 and would not hesitate buying again.

[v15ben]

I have several 4GB, 8GB and 16GB Transcend cards and have been using them in my DSLR for over a year without an issue. They are decent value too