Of the top five or ten fastest cards out there you will not notice a difference in write speed. They are all so close that the differences are very slight. SanDisks Ultra II is a fine CF for your application.

Unless you are shooting in extreme heat or cold and banging the camera around or shooting a couple thousand images a week and reformatting the same card, you don't need the anything more than what you mentioned.

Plus Amazon has them on sale right now for 83 bucks. Free shipping too.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...Fencoding=UTF8

Dennis