DeLock FW1394b

DeLock, where have you been all my life... well, just the past nine months.

When I was bitten by the full frame bug nine months ago, and switched to Canon EOS 5D mark 1's, I was faced with a couple of drawbacks that I had to work around. One of those drawbacks being using a card reader, for the CF cards I now use, instead of just using the built in SD card reader in my MacBook Pro.

SanDisk CF cards Sandberg card reader

So about a half a year ago I bought a Sandberg multi-card reader (image above), after reading some positive buyer reviews on Amazon, but now six months later it died on me while I was preparing for a shoot the next day, making sure that the CF cards where empty before formatting them in camera. I'm glad it didn't die in the middle of unloading images from an important shoot or anything, because most issues with quality memory cards are caused because they where corrupted by a cheap or bad card reader.