The size of a matchbook and weighing only half an ounce, the 128 MB CompactFlash card from SanDisk is an ultrasmall, removable data storage system. CompactFlash memory has built-in, industry-standard compatibility because its 50-pin card can easily be slipped into a passive, 68-pin Type II adapter card that fully meets PC Card electrical and mechanical specifications.
Expanding functionality and allowing products to be smaller and lighter, CompactFlash has been designed into more than 200 mobile products including digital cameras, handheld PCs, personal communicators, medical monitors, and audio recorders.
The SanDisk 128 MB CompactFlash card comes with a 5-year warranty.
CompactFlash is the world's most popular removable mass storage device. The CompactFlash card is about the size of a matchbook and only weighs half an ounce. The card was designed based on the popular PC Card (PCMCIA) standard and can easily be slipped into these slots with the use of a low-cost adapter. CompactFlash technology has resulted in the introduction of a new class of advanced, small, lightweight, low-power mobile products that significantly increases the productivity and enhances the lifestyle of millions of people. These products include digital cameras, digital music players, desktop computers, handheld PCs (HPCs), personal communicators, Palm PCs, Auto PCs, digital voice recorders and photo printers. SanDisk, the inventor of this product, has led the market for CompactFlash since its inception.
1 Outstanding reliability ...
I bought this card about 18 months ago, and I've taken several thousand pictures with it. It's been taken overseas to experience a humid Scandinavian summer, and it's been used extensively the furnace that some people refer to as southern Arizona. I have several other Sandisk CF cards, and this being one of my oldest ones, I've got "nothing" but good things to say about it (except for the speed). :-)
Pros:
* Durable and extremely reliable - Sandisk is without a doubt the most reliable brand on the market for CF cards.
* Can be found very reasonably priced - usually very good value for money.
Cons:
* Just about the slowest CF card on the market.
Personally, I'm all about reliability. I wouldn't trade my Sandisk cards for any other card, even if the price was lower or performance higher. A card that corrupts your pictures even on rare occations is a useless card in my mind. This or any other of my Sandisk CF cards have never given me any problems. I also have several friends that have used Sandisk CF cards for several years, and between us we've never had any problems with any of our Sandisk CF cards.
I would highly recommend this card, and despite its speed, I would say it's a good buy. Because of its outstanding reliability, I give it 5 stars!!!
2 Great deal
Buy this. Works well and a good deal for the money.
3 Works Great.
Camera makers bundle a small amount of memory, in my case 8 MB. It is a must to order more memory. This SanDisk 128 MB CF card has worked great for me. I'm able to store 162 images at the highest setting. This card has worked over and over again, I have had zero problems with this card. It mounts for me in WindowsXP, and MacOS X. Works great with iPhoto, etc...
4 the best storage media
I bought this for my wife's Canon Elph digital camera...It's perfect...she has trouble filling it up!
5 Good buy for the price
I received a 16MB card with mi Nikon Coolpix 2000 which wasn't enough. I purchased this CF card on Amazon and have been very satisfied with the results. I have stored upto 60 pictures and 20 videos before I have had to move it to my computer. There is insignificant lag.
6 Good buy for the price
I received a 16MB card with mi Nikon Coolpix 2000 which wasn't enough. I purchased this CF card on Amazon and have been very satisfied with the results. I have stored upto 60 pictures and 20 videos before I have had to move it to my computer. There is insignificant lag.
7 Trouble free
Worked great in my Aiptek DV-II camera.
8 i bought it for the rebate
san-disk owns the rights to the compactflash patent, but quality between different brands of media is pretty much equal at the consumer level. i made this brand purchase for the sizable rebate offered at the time, which earned the quality/value rating of 5* in my book.
9 SanDisk + Olympus = GREAT FUN
I have a SanDisk 128 and a 256 MB card which I now use in my Olympus C-5050 camera. Previously I owned a Canon G1 and use the same cards as before. During the two years I owned the Canon I took over 3500 images without any difficulty. I was worried about the Olympus because it is 5 megapixels and I though this would bog down the memory card. Despite 3 megabyte files my "old" SanDisk CompactFlash cards work great and I am able to shoot away without any waiting.
I use an ImageMate card reader to copy files to my PC where they I can edit and store them temporarily before making a copy of the images on a CD for long term storage.
I have used SanDisk cards from capacities of 16 to 256 MB in 4 different digital cameras I have owned over the years and the performance and reliability are excellent. Over the years SanDisk has also become quite price competitive, so you get both value and performance.
Sony is also using SanDisk flash memory in their newest Memory Stick, so that is enough of an endorsement for me!
Digital photography rocks!!!
10 Very Fast... But Not always Dependable.
Flash Cards, and other media storage types for that matter, can sometimes fail. This is usually cause by user error.
I use this product with my digital camera.
When using a digital camera, you may find that if you turn your camera off (while it is writing memory to the card; just after a photo being shot) you'll find that you may get fumbled results when trying to read the card later.
Granted this does not ruin the card, rather it ruins the data on the card. Formatting it resolves this issue, (but again, you may not want this to happen when taking wedding pictures!)
You may find other parallel problems such as:
1.Switching Modes (on the camera) just after taking a photo...
2.Opening the "flash card" door when camera is on...
3.Turning the camera off when its doing something with the card (ie: writing memory) as stated above.
4.Low Battery might cause inconsistent results in data.
I might say though, that when i did have my "run-in" with one of these problems i contacted the company who manufacured the product, and they were very helpful. They had me send them the card, and they recovered all the images i originally lost. (i ended up only loosing one of the photos, the one which i was wrong to manage the camera incorrectly).
Something i might say (that gives this product 3 stars) is that the data transfer rate is faster than any other means i've ever seen. Data is dragged and dropped easily and effectively (through a USB adapter).
11 How slow can you go?
I bought this 128 meg card for my nikon coolpix 990 figuring to boost up my number of pictures I take from an 80 meg lexar card. I heard sandisk was an overall good company so I decided to try it. Once I ran out of room on my 80 meg lexar card, I popped in my new 128 sandisk card and started to take pictures. Boy was I surprised when it took the camera forever to take another picture. I usually have my digital camera in a mode to take many pictures once I hold down the button but it took over twice as long to snap those pictures. Also in play mode when looking at the pictures I took it seemed like the images were pixelated for a second then became more detailed. Oh well I guess this memory card will go into my mp3 player instead.
12 Not bad for I paid for
I'd select Viking over SanDisk but since there is a $$$ MIR for this card, I go for it. One of the reviewers pointed out and it also happend to me that I only got 121 MB after format using Canon Powershot S30 instead of close to 128 MB as advertised. Canon probrably calculates 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes versus computer calculating 1 MB = 1,048,576 (1024 x 1024) bytes. I got the card, tested and it worked.
13 quick & easy
I just popped it into my Nikon Coolpix 775 and started snapping.
Now I can take hundreds of pictures.
14 Good to use with Axim X5
I poped into my Axim and downloaded 25 songs (approx 5 MB/song) and it worked like a champ. No problem so far. But instead of 128 MB it showed the total capacity as 122.10 MB. I sent an email to sandisk customer service and I got the following answer from them. This might be helpful for you.
The operating system, when reading the size of the card, reports a slightly different capacity than what is listed on the card's label
Definitions of a Megabyte:
1) Operating Systems commonly define a Megabyte (MB) as: 2 to the 20th power (1,024KB--Kilobytes).
2) DiskDrive and Flash Memory Card Manufacturers commonly define a MB as one million bytes (exactly 1,000,000 bytes).
Unformatted (Capacity)
Also known as drive byte capacity before formatting. The Maximum capacity of disk drive before formatting equals
[ (# Cylinders) X (# Heads) X (# Sectors) X (# Bytes per Track) ]
Example:
64MB CompactFlash Card consists of:
490 Cylinders
8 Heads
32 Sectors
512 Bytes per Track
This equates to: [ (490) X (8) X (32) X (512) ] = 64,225,280
Unformatted Capacity: 64,225,280 bytes
Formatted Capacity: 63,934,464 bytes (User Data)
Cause:
Disk Drive Companies such as SanDisk define 1 MEGABYTE as 1,000,000
BYTES. Operating Systems define 1 MEGABYTE as 1,048,576 BYTES (1024K X 1024K or 2 to the 20th power).
Example:
SanDisk 64MB CompactFlash Card being read by Microsoft Operating
System.
SanDisk Total Formatted Capacity divided by 1 MB (as defined by the Operating System) equates to the following:
63,934,464 BYTES / 1,048,576 BYTES = 60,972,656 BYTES, 60.9MB displayed by OS.
15 Excellent CompactFlash Card!
I bought this product when I bought my Kodak DX3600 Digital Camera. This is a great CF card for this camera. You can take over 700 pictures on good resolution and over 200 on best resolution. It prints great 8 by 10 pictures. This has tons of space and is worth the money spent. This is a great CF card!
16 Entirely satisfactory so far
I was looking for the cheapest digital camera I could find that would take adequate shots of small collectibles for listing on eBay. I bought the Argus 3200 at a great price, knowing it had almost no internal memory. A second problem was that my older system has no USB port. My solution was to buy the SanDisk 128 MB flash card, and a card reader that plugs into the printer port--both from Amazon. Both have worked fine for me so far. At this time, a 32 MB card would be adequate for my purposes, but I don't regret buying the extra capacity--and the 128 costs little more than a 64. The SanDisk card arrived in three days-- with no shipping charge--and the price was much better than off the rack in my own city.
17 All flash is not created equal
SanDisk flash is some of the slowest flash on the market. I strongly suggest purchasing a better brand such as Viking. The only thing SanDisk has going for it is price, but for a few dollars more you can do a lot better.
18 costs a lot but does so much
This is a great little card. Yes, the new xd card used in Fuji cameras is much smaller but how small do you need? With this card you can take only one card on vacation with you, although I still recommend an extra card for emergencies. I have been using this one for a month now. I have 111 photos and three short videos and there's still room. I've printed my photos up to 8x10 and they look great, just like my 35mm enlargements. The video although pretty smooth when viewed on my TV is not quite as good as 8mm video, but better than on my previous camera. And this card is a heck of a lot smaller than 3 rolls of film and an 8mm video tape.
I'll admit that the initial cost is high but remember that you can reuse the card again and again- simply download to your computer or a disc and erase the images from your card and you are ready to start over. Another advantage is the ability to immediately erase (true for all digital cards and cameras) and thereby save your 'film' for an important photo.
19 Good media, right price
I have one of these for use in a Nikon Coolpix 995 digital camera.
At the highest resolution, 2048x1536, you can average about 100 shots on the card before you have to start deleting pics to free up space.
Who needs such a huge card? Well, I prefer to use a larger CF card and take the highest-rez pic possible, rather than play around adjusting resolutions out in the cold and rain. Who knows - you may get that 'killer pic' you want to blow up to 11x14, and only realize it once you're back at your computer! You can always rescale a picture down later.
With this card, I can go on vacation and take a week's worth of pics, no problem, no fussing around with swapping cards. This card is great!
20 Very convenient
I bought both a 64M and 128M ROM and use them with a ZiO! Flash ROM Reader/Writer to back up files that will no longer fit on a floppy, and that it's inconvenient to backup to CD-R. The ROMs are reasonably fast, unless you're copying large numbers of small files, and then it can take a long time to transfer all the files.
I've done a test with 100 megs of data, and it took about 2 hours to copy it all over. Also, copying large numbers of small files is slower than a few big files, for some reason. I usually don't need to transfer that much data, however, so they work fine for me basically as "fat floppies." I'm not sure what the speed on this ROM is, but I know it's not the fastest one since there are more expensive ones at the same capacity that cost more.
Overall a fine product. If I remember right, SANdisk may have invented this type of Flash ROM, and so I'm happy to give them my patronage for this product.
21 Great!
Works great! At first my iPaq was just another fancy handheld, but now it's a POWERHOUSE!
