SanDisk SDCFH-256-901 256MB ULTRA II CF Card (Retail Package)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of SanDisk SDCFH-256-901 256MB ULTRA II CF Card (Retail Package)
Customer Review: Its great!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great card, works perfectly in the canon powershot s500 digital elph. I can take 99 top notch photos. If you bought the card, just be sure to register at www.sandisk.com/registration within 30 days or you will get no warranty.Customer Review: Very good with my A75
Summary: 5 Stars
Great, fast ! You need a 2.0 or PCIMA card reader for faster transfers to computer.Customer Review: Only faster in SOME cameras, slower in others
Summary: 4 Stars
I was hoping to increase the write speed on my Minolta 7i which makes me wait for a full write before I can take the next photo. In this camera, the Ultra II is actually slower than a "regular" SanDisk 256MB card. Ran a couple of quick tests, using the Ultra II, a "regular speed" SanDisk CF and a 1G IBM CF Micro Drive:--------------------------------------------
In the 7i, taking a macro photo of a catalog page with lots of colors, small images and text (5 MP):
UltraII - 13 seconds RAW : 15 seconds TIF : 4.5 seconds full size JPG.
Regular - 11 seconds RAW: 14 seconds TIF : 3.8 seconds JPG
1G IBM MD - 12 Seconds RAW : 18 seconds TIF : 4.0 seconds JPG
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Performance in my Nikon D-100 was better when taking the same (6.1MP) landscape photo:
Ultra II - 5.1 seconds RAW : 25 seconds TIF : 3.2 seconds full size JPG
Regular - 5.4 seconds RAW : 26 seconds TIF : 3.7 seconds JPG
1G IBM MD - 11 seconds RAW : 29.3 seconds TIF : 4.2 seconds JPG
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When I purchased this card, Amazon was having a GREAT sale on it, I paid a dollar more than what a "standard" speed card would cost, so I am not irritated. If I had paid the normal retail price though, I'd be upset with its less than stellar performance in the intended application.
So, make sure that your camera can take advantage of the increased write speed of this card before you spend the extra money on it over a "standard" speed card. I'll be using it as backup on the Nikon rather than as a primary on the Minolta.
Customer Review: Disk Format Problems
Summary: 3 Stars
When I first used this card with a Nikon Coolpix 4300, it worked for the first 207 photos. Suddenly, my camera showed an error message on the screen saying, "This card cannot be read.". Even after powering off and on the camera, I had the same error message. I wasn't able to access the card. I wasn't able to access the card on my computer either, through USB card readers or through the camera itself. The computer behaved as though there was no CompactFlash card there, and I continued to receive prompts to insert a disk. According to Windows XP, the format of the card is RAW, when it's really supposed to be FAT32 (or FAT16 or FAT?). Since I can't access the card, I can't format it. At least I was able to recover more than half of those photos with freeware Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery. Perhaps I merely became unlucky.Customer Review: Never thought it would make much difference
Summary: 5 Stars
Having read review after review on whether or not the flash card actually made a difference, I was sceptical when formating my newly purchased card. Took the first image (Nikon 5000) and had to double check that my image settings weren't changed. The camera wrote the image to disk faster than other cards I've used. To give an easy comparison, in 'fine' mode it writes as fast as it did in 'normal' with an older flash card.Then while uploading the images to my Mac, the files transfered almost twice as fast. i haven't timed it but it is definitely faster.
Needless to say, I no longer use my other flash cards. I've missed too many shots in the past while waiting for the image to write.