Designed for professional photographers working under extreme conditions Mininum of 9MB/s write speed and 10MB/s read speed Packaged with RescuePRO mini-CD for recovering accidentally deleted photos Lifetime warranty
1 Outstanding card
I wasn't planning on buying another CF card. I had a 4GB microdrive that stored 1000's of images, and a Ridata 52x 512MB card, so I was pretty well covered. That is, until one day the microdrive died! With my normal, capacious card gone, I needed to make do with the Ridata and download frequently. That seemed ok until I accidently deleted an entire afternoon's worth of wedding photos! Aargggh!
I found that Sandisk had RescuePro, a program that could recover deleted photos. After downloading the software and seeing I could recover my photos, my choice was to spend $40 to purchase the software, or another $50 and get a 1GB Extreme card (software included for free).
Well, I recovered the photos, and now love the Sandisk. It is faster (at 80x vs. the Ridata's 52x), and I can take and access photos faster. In addition, the extreme label says its operating temperature is -13 to 185¡ F, a much broader range than the Ridata was listed for (32-140¡ F). I tried it in a recent cold snap with the wind chill below zero, card and camera outdoors seemed to work just fine. The great thing about a CF card is that, unlike a microdrive, it is not susceptible to shocks and jolts. The very fast write/transfer times (the new Extreme III just out sets even higher standards), professional quality operating range, large capacity for those hi-res photos, and file rescue software that works (included free) makes this a winner.
