I use Hoodman RAW cards because I can't afford not to.  I travel to a distant location, expend time, money, and energy to capture the best photographs I'm capable of taking, and my clients expect nothing less.  To save a few dollars on cards I don't have confidence in is not an option for me or my client.  In my teaching career I have worked with many thousands of digital photographers in the field and I have rescued, or tried to rescue, many captures from failed cards, non of these have been RAW cards.

Many of us are not into capturing HD video with our DSLRs, I work with the Canon EOS 5D MK II.  The amount of data captured with this type of camera is even greater than before.  I can't afford a failure and the RAW cards don't fail.

Hoodman makes two other products that I use on a regular basis.  The Hoodman Loupe is a "must have" in the field and the new 3" version works great on the 5D MK II.  Good optics are needed to evaluate an image with a loupe and the Hoodman has excellent quality.  I also use the Hoodman UDMA firewire card reader for my CF cards, and when you fill several 16GB RAW cards, the exra speed of transfer is a good thing.
 

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