What is the best CF card to get?

[cheva1ier]

I just picked up a Canon Powershot G5 and now I'm looking to pick up a compact flash card for it. I wanted to know what everyone's opinion was on different cards based on speed and reliability.

Thanks

[Photo-John]

I don't believe you will be able to benefit from high-speed cards with your camera. In general, when it comes to compact digital cameras, the bottleneck is the camera and not the memory card. No matter how fast a card you get, the camera doesn't have enough built-in memory to store the photos while they get saved to the card. My recommendation would be to buy a name-brand memory card, but don't bother spending money on the high speed ones.

[SmartWombat]

I just picked up a Canon Powershot G5 and now I'm looking to pick up a compact flash card for it. I wanted to know what everyone's opinion was on different cards based on speed and reliability.
Thanks

For speed, you want a card with real memory, not a disk drive liek the IBM/Hitachi.
But in a consumer digicam buying a high speed card makes little difference.
I bought the 1G Lexar card with an eye to the future (saving for a DSLR) and for the high capacity - not for the ultimate speed on my Minolta.

While the Minolta will accept fast cards it doesn't support WA so I don't get 40x speed
But nearly a 25% reduction in single image save time is worth it.
I'm shooting in RAW mode, about 11megabytes/image, using the high speed (laugh!) burst mode at 1.8 fps

Lexar Pro 40x 1GB
1 image saved 15.5, 16.8, 17.4, 17.8, 17.9
3 images saved 40.7, 40.8, 44.3, 48.8, 49.8


Sandisk 256M
1 image saved 18.4, 20.0, 20.6, 19.8, 19.2
3 images saved 51.5, 54.7, 53.6, 53.8, 51.3


Microdrive 340M
1 image saved 23.4, 29.1, 27.0, 25.6, 22.9
3 images saved 59.3, 60.4, 63.4, 67.1, 52.9

Microdrive 1G
1 image saved 23.1, 26.1, 25.1, 25.2, 24.5
3 images saved 65.5, 65.3, 61.0, 63.5, 52.7