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.
