CompactFlash, which weighs a half ounce and is the size of a matchbook, is an ultra-small, removable data storage system. Introduced in October, 1994, CF provides complete PC Card-ATA functionality and compatibility. CF has built-in, industry-standard compatibility because the 50-pin CF card can be easily slipped into a passive 68 pin Type II adapter card that fully meets PC Card electrical and mechanical interface specifications.
SanDisk's 128 MB CompactFlash memory card features high storage capacity and runs on many popular digital cameras, hand-held PCs, and other memory-driven products. Thorough testing in SanDisk's assurance lab ensures that its CompactFlash cards are compatible with a wide range of devices. Because the cards are so small, you can keep one in your pocket and never get caught short of memory.
1 Card went corrupt on our honeymoon
Well, this card was working great until my honeymoon recently. Unfortunately the problem only surfaced when we tried to get the pictures off the card. I was able to download the first 12 or so and then most of the rest of the pictures were corrupt. I haven't had any problems with the camera so it must be the media; very disappointing performance.
2 perfect
no prob. perfect so far for last 12 month
3 Storage problem solved!
I own several San Disk compact flash cards. This one
being the lifesaver .....because it will hold many, many
of the highest res images made on the Nikon Coolpix 990.
When traveling I make hundreds of images and am happy
to report-------------------------------------------------------
I have had NO PROBLEMS with SanDisk cards. : )
4 After buying a kingston 256MB card...
This card is horrible. Speed is terrible and so is the latency. Switch to a kingston or something faster. Check the web for some speed comparisons
5 Amazing
These cards are just amazing considering their size and capacity. I am using this 128MB Compact Flash card in my Canon S230 Digital Elph camera- 3.2 megapixels. The 128MB card is perfect for my purposes. I currently have 114 still photos and 3 short video clips stored and am still going. I've erased lots of pictures, downloaded to my computer, and printed on my computer and my HP 100 printer (with no computer connection.) I've encountered no problems and the quality of my photos is excellent. Although I've only had this card for a short time I have a SmartMedia card by SanDisk that has been used repeatedly for a year now and still functions beautifully. These may be expensive at first but they last.
6 No problems so far
I have had one month of experience with this and have had no problems thus far.
7 i guess it's good.
since i have no other brand to compare, i would just rate it 4 stars. tested in southern utah. got about 150 pictures. both in large and small files w/high resolution. memory was pretty much full. also tested at texas a&m vs. oklahoma football game. took about 5 video clips and lots of still pictures. it still had lots of room left.
8 A slow one...
This card a twice as slow compared to the new cards. Its controller is based on the old technology and I heard SunDisk is going to discontinue them in favor for a new faster Ultra series.
I have also Viking 128MB card and it's much faster then SanDisk
at the same price. Try Ridata if you want speed.
9 SanDisk fast in Olympus C-5050
I have been very happy with the SanDisk card performance in my Olympus C-5050. This is a 5 megapixel camera takes photo files that 2.5 to 3.0 MB size and I can snap off pictures as fast as the camera can autofocus. I also can review photos, even 9 photo thumbnail screens rapidly.
This is my fourth digital camera and I have been happy with SanDisk's performance during the past several years I have used them.
10 Very slow performance
I got this card because my Canon Powershot A20 was having some corruption problems with my Viking 128MB CF and Canon support said that they tested with Sandisk, not Viking, at that compacity. Anyways, the Sandisk 128MB CF works but it is at least half as slow as my old Viking, maybe slower. Wait time between shots is now almost unbearable. I suggest that you spend a little more to buy the Sandisk Ultra version (faster) or Lexar/Viking/Kingston brands. Heck, even SimpleTech is much faster.
11 Snadisk is slower than some competitors
I used this 128MB Sandisk CF card with my Nikon 885 digital camera on a recent trip to Vietnam. While it does store plenty of high quality images, the issue I have with this card is the read/write rate. As the card fills up with pictures it becomes slow to store the picture you just took. I estimate that this took up to 15 seconds, an eternity while waiting to take another picture. Even more painful is reviewing and deleting pictures. Going through thumbnails of about 100 pictures took 5-10 minutes as the camera struggled to read from the memory card. I also took along a Lexar 16MB 8X card that displayed my pictures almost instantaneously. This is a lower capacity card but it gave me a comparison. Sandisk doesn't do a very good job of stating its read/write speeds. These speeds(along with # of MBs) is what distinguishes mainstream from professional quality cards. Professional photographers don't have time to wait to take another picture or review their older pictures. I am buying a large capacity Lexar 12X card to be my primary high storage card and the Sandisk card will be my backup for overflow situations.
12 It is an excellent card
A great card. I bought a 256 MB CF card for my Canon PowerShot S40. The speed is very fast: I used the card to shoot a movie for the first party I had after I received the card, and I captured all the exciting moment. The price is pretty cheap considering that this is the Sandisk quality.
13 great value
I find this to be a great value for the price holds all the pictures we could talk on a weeks vication with plenty of space left great price also.
14 IT'S TOO BAD!
This is a bad CompactFlash Card. Compare with Viking (I bought two from an internet store because it should be the best one), SimpleTech, Microtech, 128MB Compact Flash Card. SanDisk CompactFlash Card read and write speeds are so bad. I use CANON PRO70 and CANON D60 camera, which have RAW format. SanDisk CompactFlash take twice time to read and write data. Even the newest SanDisk Ultra CompactFlash doesn't work faster than others. However, its price is so high.
You could get full test review on-line.
If you use basic digital camera with below 2.0 megapixels resolution and save with JPG format, it is ok for you with 128MB. Otherwise, please don't buy this one. Choosing other company's CompactFlash is better for you.
15 Good card and price
Am getting A LOT of excellent quality pictures with this card. The Amazon price and free shipping is a real plus.
16 Card failed after 6 months
My SanDisk worked with no problems for the first 6 or so months I had it. However, a couple weeks ago, after filling it to about 70% capacity with photos and taking it home, it crapped out. The disk reader wouldn't recognize the card, nor would the camera. They would each recognize other cards I had, but not this particular one. It was in the camera the whole time and hadn't been abused.
I haven't tried support or warranty services yet, but the bottom line is that if there's something on the card you can't replace when it fails, you're out of luck.
17 SANDISK 128MB Compact Flash
Only reason I didn't give it 5stars is that they don't have a transfer speed rating on the package. Different brands of C/F Cards can transfer at different speeds and SanDisk conveniently leaves out this measurement. They also sell a premium version of the same size modules. What makes the premium memory better if they have no measurements to back it up? So, although this works fine in my DigiCam, I think they can do a better job educating the consumer on their product(s).
18 Lots of space
I took my digital camera and CompactFlash card to Italy for a 3.5 week vacation. I used high quality pictures and got about 190 on the card before I had to download the pictures to my computer.
19 So many pics
popped right into my HP camera. Holds so many pics that I can store the whole vacation and never worry about downloading. GREAT and worth money!!!
20 Packs a lot of power!
Talk about convinient. I'm *so* glad I made the switch to digital photography last year. It is awesome that I don't have to buy OR develop film any more. I have a Canon S100 Elph with a 2.11 megapixel resolution ... and I can store 200+ pictures on this little card. Just snap away at anything that grabs your attention. With so much room, you won't even have to delete or review your pictures until you download 'em later on your computer. Ideal for long vacations.
21 Works without a hitch
Great speed - no problems. What more can you ask for?
22 Excellent -a God Send for my digital camera
This San Disk 128 MB Compact Flash a God Send for my digital camera; I can store over 200 very high quality photos with my Canon A-20 (400+ very good quality and 600 good Quality), Also this is a great price I paid a lot more at a photo store for a 64MB than this, and this 128 holds twice as much (of course). Amazon does it again.
23 Not all CF cards are created alike
If you think all CompactFlash cards are created alike, think again!! The SanDisk card is perfectly functional, but read/write times are very slow compared to other similarly-priced cards that are on the market. Check out products by Ridata and Transcend. These cards go for about the same price (or less) than the SanDisk products but are much faster. The only problem is that they are somewhat hard to find.
24 6 days at Disney on one card!!
I bought this about 10 hours before leaving for Disney World. I use it in a Nikon Coolpix 700 (2.1 mp) set at the basic mode (1600 x 1200, apx 240k per pic with full compression). I took 471 pictures and had room for over 100 more. Download of 108 meg with a USB card reader took about 5 minutes. A side effect I had not counted on was that write times increased as the card got full. With a 16MB card I never noticed this but toward the end of 128MB the delay was very noticeable. "Boot time" (pause after turning on the camera) was increased too. Again, something that was never an issue with a smaller card. A good reason to hang on to your older, smaller ram cards for things like sporting events frames per second are important. If picture quality is essential to your work, the size fo the card makes full TIFF images (8 meg per) a viable option. Memory may not be cheaper for a long time. I paid the same for this card that I paid for a 16MB card 2 years ago. Highly recomended.
25 it's a steal!
for this much memory and so very cheap a price, this is a steal. eight months ago i bought a 16mb memory at [a local store]...now i can take as much pictures as i want and not worry about running out of memory.
26 Value still exists
One of the "must-haves" for digital cameras is the ability to store a significant number of pictures. The SanDisk 128Mb card provided the ability to store over 700, which was adequate for our upcoming two-week vacation.
Why the SanDisk? I checked out compatibility (actually, the Kodak DX3600 required an upgrade to provide support for this product), and reviewed the ... organization's site ... . The dollars/megabyte, from one of the bigger manufacturers, was right. A five-year warranty closed the deal for me. Finally, it's proven itself reliable for the past few months. NO problems whatsoever.
27 Works Fine.
This works fine for me. The only reason I won't give it a five is because it does not exceed expectations, but it certainly meets all of my expectations.
28 SanDisk Reliability
I have had 4 readers for compact flashcards. Only the SanDisk reader and software were reliable when working with our two PC's at home and one at work. One reader went back to the store, one I threw away because it was so cheap, one is still here in my drawer, but all of the SanDisk readers keep on truckin'.
When the price is right, I try to buy the SanDisk compact flashcards based on my experience with the company.
Steve Cordell
29 One Great Little card
Works like a charm....No problems.....Stores about 130 hi res.
photos. Wouldn't be without one. I want another one......The old
8 meg and 16 meg. cards stay in the bag.
30 Reliable worker
I can't seem to fill this thing up. I have a one-megapixel digital camera; at full resolution and highest quality, this puppy will hold close to 500 pictures. That's slightly over a week's worth of photos for me, so it's the perfect size. The product was plug-n-play, I didn't even have to "format" it the first time I used it. When (not if!) I upgrade to a two- or three-megapixel camera, I'm taking this memory card with me! Since it is solid-state, it should almost never wear out, so this is probably the smallest unit you should buy.
31 Fabulous storage...
Indestructible, imminently useful! More than just a useful little thingie for digital cameras. Also a useful, lightweight and excellently portable storage device for myriad uses. It has achieved coolness in my estimation. ;-)
32 Simply a "MUST HAVE"
I bought this when I purchased my Minolta S304 and I could not be happier. Using the standard resolution with a normal size picture, I am able to store approximately 200 pictures! My camera takes 60 seconds worth of video. I took a good number of pictures using this card and I was amazed with how much it could hold. At one point I had 50 pictures, 3 videos 60 seconds long and I still had room for around another 180 pictures.
To get the most out of your camera, this is well worth the investment.
33 Nice, But.............
I bought this 128mg card at Costco and I like it for the most part but when played in my mp3 player, I have some problems with the music flickering on and off once in a while which does not occur with my 64 and 32 meg card. But it really doesn't bother me since I only paid 59.99 at Costco. Its a great deal considering this little piece of memory has like 2000 times more RAM than Apple II's from the 80's!
34 What can you say about a memory card?
There is nothing better than to go on vacation, let someone take pictures of you and your wife doing a once in a lifetime event and saying "Take all the pictures you can, don't worry about running out of room on the card"
The card is about the same price per megabyte as smaller capacity cards but not having to worry about running out of room for pictures makes it well worth it.
35 beautiful product/ amazon a little short
the card works flawlessly just as all sandisk that I have purchased. there was a large rebate on this product and when I recieved it amazon had not included any information or forms. I am presently waiting still on a response. mabye i will get it ,mabye not. otherwise this is the best of the media cards.
36 sandisk flashcard
There are an awful lot of choices to be made concerning flashcards. The biggest decider of what flashcards you use is the companies choice. IE Sony, Compaq, Hewllit packard etc.
I found that not only does Sandisk offer a wide choice but the quality in engineering of each one is top notch. Reliability is good, but as with everything, you still should treat with care. Recommendations also come from relatives who have used my camera with this flashcard.
37 Worth the bucks
I bought one of these to store media files on my Cassiopeia E-125. After converting CD tracks to WMA, I could fit roughly 36 songs on the SanDisk 128mb card. In fact, this product rocks so much that I went out and bought another one. While, I use to have a *clunky* Zip drive which was used to take files back and forth from home and work, I now use my Cassiopiea and a SanDisk 128mb card to do the same job. If you think about it, this little card holds even more data then even a Zip drive with out the worry of corrupting the disk. Best of all, it's roughly less than 1/8 the size. So if you are looking for a way to pack allot of data into a small place, skip the 32 and 64 disks and go with the 128mb SanDisk.
38 good, but SLOW
good product for a reasonable price, but the boot and loading times are slow. The Lexar 8X & 12X cards are much better for only slightly more $. Faster speeds are battery savers as well as great for next shot availability.
39 It performs as advertised.
It does everything it's supposed to! I've used it under some rough conditions, and even dropped it a couple of times, with no apparent negative results. I only wish it were possible (practical?) to recover deleted shots.
40 NEED INFO
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TYPE 1 & TYPE 2 ????
41 A Must Have for Digital Photography
When I think back to my Commodore 64, I't hard to believe how much fits on these cards!!! I use this with a Canon Digital Elph S300 and it makes memory a non-issue. Setting the camara on low compression and the highest resolution, I can fit about 150 images on the card. At this quality, I can print photos through Ofoto.com on photographic paper, up to 8X10, and they look like they were taken on 35mm film.
If you set the resolution/compression to place images on the web, 500-1,000 pictures would fit on a single card!!
42 Dosen't work with Kodak MC3 nor with Polaroid PDC 700
Zip, Zilch, Nada - Did not work for me!
43 Works for me
Popped it in my Kodak 3600, turned it on and started taking pics. Works just fine. At the low setting (900x600), the card gives me over 700 pics
Other people may have had issues with San Disk cards being read in a Kodak but since my camera was new enough, it already had the firmware of 1.30 which is what Kodak recommended.
44 Works great w/ Kodak DX3600
Kodak released a firmware upgrade for the DX3600 enabling it to use SanDisk cards. I just got my card and it works wonderfully. No problems with speed or errors so far. Plus, it was MUCH cheaper than any other 128MB CF card I've seen, especially of the leading brands.
45 Works great w/ Kodak DX3600
Kodak released a firmware upgrade for the DX3600 enabling it to use SanDisk cards. I just got my card and it works wonderfully. No problems with speed or errors so far. Plus, it was MUCH cheaper than any other 128MB CF card I've seen, especially of the leading brands.
46 Excellent Card for an excellent Price!
I have been very happy with this CompactFlash card. It is used on my Kodak digital camera, and is very fast at saving the pictures. On this one flash card I can hold 307 highest quality pictures (8x10) before I have to change over to the original flash card that came with my camera. I highly recommend spending the extra money to get a 128 MB flash card if you are into digital photography.
47 MEGASTORAGE!!! This card works flawlessly.
I was on a trip to Europe this summer. Although I already had two 64 MB SanDisk CompactFlash cards, I bought the 128 MB when I upgraded to the Canon G1. In a minimally compressed mode the Canon can store 72 images on the SanDisk 128 MB card. I actually filled all my cards with vacation photos! Glad I made the purchase. This card has worked flawlessly for me and the price is very reasonable.
48 What's not to like?
I popped the 128 MB card into my Nikon Coolpix 880, formatted it, and started taking pictures. It works, it's fast.
49 Doesn't work with Kodak DX3500/DX3600
I bought this card for my Kodak DX3600 Camera assuming it would work since the back of the box says "Compatible with all digital cameras". Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be compatible with mine. Every time I took pictures with the card inserted I would get an error message (Unrecognized File Format) when I tried to view them using the camera. And when I tried to browse the contents of the card using my PC all the pictures were listed as having a file size of 0. I returned the card for a new one and still had the same problem. I checked SanDisk's web site and found that they don't list the Kodak DX3600 as being compatible even though the box claims the memory card is compatible with all digital cameras. I also tried it in a friend's Kodak DX3500 and got the same errors. And when I used his PNY memory card in my camera it worked fine so I don't think it was my camera that was the problem.
50 Could be better...
Disk is a little slower than others I am using. Seems to put photos in a different order than when I took them. Maybe it's camera, not sure. Other cards don't malfunction like this one does though. I get errors on this card where others I don't.
51 So it is true, SanDisk, Lexar, and Viking Same Quality!!
I have been researching and researching to determine if the SanDisk, Lexar, and Viking cards all had the same quality standards, read and write speeds, compatibility, etc.
I could not understand why the Viking cards tended to be less expensive (sometimes by quite a large delta), so assumed that there had to be some difference in quality.
SanDisk answered my question yesterday when they filed a lawsuit against Viking Components for purchasing the Lexar internal components for their CompactFlash cards (SanDisk had earlier sued Lexar, too) stating that they are infringing upon SanDisk's patents on the components.
Other than a lot of legal jargon, this tells me that the three cards: SanDisk, Lexar, and Viking are so similar in design, quality, speed, compatibility, etc. that they are able to get into lawsuits about it.
It also tells me one more thing--Lexar and Viking must be SanDisk's biggest competitors because they are the companies they are attacking first.
Kudos to Viking for building a product so similar in design, quality, performance, compatibility, etc. to their competitors but still willing to sell the product at a lower price to the consumer.
P.S. Viking is a very reputable company, I am sure that this matter doesn't deal with them directly. I would assume that it will go back to a battle between SanDisk and Lexar, after all the only thing Viking did was purchase a quality component from Lexar in order to build their flash cards to the highest quality standard.
52 Outstanding Product - Essential for Nikon Coolpix
About a year ago, I purchased a Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera. The "wimpy" 8 MB CompactFlash card that came with the unit would only hold one (1) uncompressed, high-resolution picture - I needed more. I started looking and found this; the SanDisk 128 MB CompactFlash. I read on the Nikon technical support web page that SanDisk is the OEM for Nikon's CompactFlash cards, so I felt pretty safe selecting this card. The only question I had was "would my Coolpix 950 work with a card this large?" The answer is a resounding YES! (according to friends, it will work in the new Coolpix 990 also)
The card formatted in the camera perfectly and has simply worked for the past nine months. I shoot all pictures in high resolution with a moderate compression level, allowing me to store more than 110 - 2.1 MegaPixel pictures in the camera - plenty for me. Recently, we took a five-day trip to Disney World - this card captured ALL of our pictures perfectly. If you get this, check out one of the USB card readers as well - the serial connection is just way too slow for transferring this much data.
Executive Summary: Buy it now.
53 I travel with the backup in my wallet
With this, flash memory when same one robed me the notebook in NY. It was possible to have my back up in my wallet so I bought a new notebook and it was possible to go on the road show with success.
