CF is nice if you need the highest capacities, highest speed or you need to boot from it (it's an ATA drive too), but SD is fine for most media uses. Except for their use in dSLRs, I think CF is fading. I'd prefer it not to, but it is a physically large card now and it's often more expensive than an SD card. The only thing I don't like about SD is that there's three different sizes in use now, and juggling the adapters is a pain.
CF used to have two physical sizes, but the thicker went away quickly.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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CF is nice if you need the highest capacities, highest speed or you need to boot from it (it's an ATA drive too), but SD is fine for most media uses. Except for their use in dSLRs, I think CF is fading. I'd prefer it not to, but it is a physically large card now and it's often more expensive than an SD card. The only thing I don't like about SD is that there's three different sizes in use now, and juggling the adapters is a pain.
CF used to have two physical sizes, but the thicker went away quickly.