Great deal at B&H for Lexar 1000x UDMA 7 CF cards

[David Stephens]

B&H has a great deal on the Lexar Professional 32GB 1000x UDMA 7 cards. They're normally $234 to $237.95 and now they're only $132.24. These are fantastic cards for those of you using the 1D-X and the 5D MkIII and the D800, among other cameras. I own this card already and ordered another when I saw this deal.

Look at the comparison tests. This is a fantastic card and this price is great:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/841566-REG/Lexar_LCF32GCTBNA1000_32GB_CompactFlash_Memory_Car d.html

There on backorder, but, if you can wait a little bit, this deal is too good to pass up.

[Dave Leroy]

Thanks Dave. Two packs are even cheaper.

[arash_hazeghi]

got the cards today, I can get about 24 RAWs with the 5D3 (NR/DLO etc. off) before it slows down and then it clears rapidly. It brought the camera to life!

With the MK4 I can get 44 RAWs at 10fps! :cheers:

An excellent buy!

[David Stephens]

Thanks for the feedback Arash. That's consistant with my experience.

Everyone, these are great cards and the sale ends on the 31st.

[John Chardine]

I have seen first-hand problems with Lexar cards and Canon cameras. These could be different.

[David Stephens]

Please elaborate John.

I've taken over 100,000 shots with various Lexar CF cards with no troubles at all.

[John Chardine]

The problem is a well-known one and manifests itself in lost images. I have seen it with some of my ship passengers. A Google search of "Canon Lexar problem" produces a shed-load of hits. As I mentioned, it is likely an issue with certain combinations of Lexar cards and Canon models. It is unlikely that the problem occurs with all combinations. A common theme in the Google hits is that the problem is rare. For me, rare is too much where this is concerned so I just stick with San Disk.

[David Stephens]

Those problems were in 2005!!! Have fun with your San Disk.

[John Chardine]

All I can tell you is that I saw this in 2010 with a modern Lexar card and a modern Canon body.

[Doug Brown]

Mine just arrived today. Hoping to do some testing a little later.

[arash_hazeghi]

I "broke in" the cards today. 1500 frames 1D4, mostly bursts, so far so good. noticeably faster than San Disk card, did not hit the buffer limit.

[Ofer Levy]

Got mine yesterday and did some quick test. I don't see any difference in the number of frames per burst between the Lexar and my "old" Sandisk Extreme Pro 90 MB/s UDMA 6 - both get about 27 RAW files in one burst. Obviousely very different to Arash's findings - not sure why...:2eyes2: