Amazon has always had the best prices for SD cards. I’ve been using their SanDisk Extreme cards for at least ten years without a single failure.
> On Mar 7, 2023, at 6:30 AM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Those prices make me think counterfeit cards. > > Bill > > On Tue., Mar. 7, 2023, 2:10 a.m. Larry Colen, <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > >> My new camera is arriving tomorrow, I wanted to get some new SD cards as >> well. >> >> Shopping on Amazon for the SanDisk Extreme Pro >> 32 GB 100MB/s $13.35 2.39 GB/$ also $12.29 >> 64 GB 200MB/s $15.38 4.16 GB/$ also $15 >> 128 GB 200MB/s $24.10 5.31 GB/$ also $23 >> 256 GB 200 MB/s $48.60 5.27 GB/$ also $40 >> 512 GB 200 MB/s $79.70 6.42 GB/$ also $69 >> 1TB 200 MB/s 197.05 5.19 GB/$ also $188 >> >> Something weird happened, I was looking at the 512 at $69, ordered 2 and >> it switched me over to the page for them at $79. >> The $79 version is said to arrive Wed, March 8, the $69 March 12-15. Sold >> by "sales for you" and fulfilled by amazon >> >> First of all I am simply boggled by how cheap SD memory has gotten. Now >> there's something weird where if you change the number you order, the price >> and delivery will change. >> >> I can see a couple of advantages to big cards besides price per GB. >> The first is that the only time I lost a bunch of photos was when I was >> shooting at the Monterey historics, ran out of space on my cards, swapped >> them and when I got home one had disappeared. I probably dropped it when I >> thought i was putting it into the used card pocket of my camera strap. >> >> The other is that with solid state, you're limited to the number of write >> cycles, so the less of the card you use at a time, the longer it should >> last. >> On a trip, however, there are serious disadvantages to having too many >> files on a card when you're copying them off of the card onto a computer >> each day. I'm one of those people who doesn't like to erase my SD cards >> until I get home from a trip. >> >> But $.16 per GB? Yowza! >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen >> l...@red4est.com. sent from Mirkwood >> >> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
