SanDisk Extreme III 4 GB CompactFlash Memory Card SDCFX3-004G-A31
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of SanDisk Extreme III 4 GB CompactFlash Memory Card SDCFX3-004G-A31
Customer Review: Lightning Speed For Your Digital SLR Camera
Summary: 5 Stars
SanDisk is known as a reliable name in flash memory cards. I have purchased SanDisk memory cards for years and have never had any of them fail on me. So when I recently purchased a new Canon EOS 40D digital SLR camera, I knew that I wanted a SanDisk CompactFlash card, to record all of my precious photos. I looked up the specs of the many choices that SanDisk offers. I also read many reviews, right here on Amazon, and decided that the Extreme III series CompactFlash was what I needed.
Wanting the ability to store several hundred photos on a single card, I chose the 4GB Extreme III CompactFlash card. I inserted the 4GB Extreme III into my new digital SLR camera and formatted it. At 10.1 megapixels, and at the largest JPG setting, my camera shows that the card will hold roughly 900 pictures. I began snapping pictures and was instantly amazed at how quickly the data saved to the card. After I had about 50 pictures on the card, I removed it from the camera and inserted it into the card reader attached to my PC. I copied all of the photos from the card onto my PC hard drive. Again I am amazed at how quickly this memory card can move data. This card is awesome! I have always thought that the many claims of faster speed in memory cards was purely hype, to get consumers to plunk down extra cash. Well I can honestly tell you that there IS a difference. Compaired to an older 512 MB CompactFlash card that I use in a different camera, this Extreme III series card is at least 2 to 3 times faster in transferring digital photos.
I have noticed a few low scoring reviews, here on Amazon, from people that have had their SanDisk memory cards fail. I am sorry to hear that others have not had as much luck with their SanDisk cards as I have. I suppose there is always going to be a certain amount of failure with any electronic device on the market. All I can say is that I have been using SanDisk flash memory devices for years, including SD, Memory Stick Pro, MicroSD (transflash), CompactFlash, and even several different Cruzer USB flash drives, and have never had one case of failure. I have worked in the I.T. field for over 20 years and I can asure you that I am not a light user by any means. Any data storage media I own is used frequenty and intensly. In my book there is no better manuafacturer of portable memory media than SanDisk, and I will remain a loyal user until they decide to cut back on quality and I start to experience failures and lost data.
I highly recommend this Extreme III series CompactFlash card by SanDisk. I also recommend that you purchase it from Amazon. I made the mistake of buying mine from a local electronics store, which charged me nearly twice the price of what Amazon is selling it for. I was in a hurry and needed it right away, and boy did I pay a premium! Amazon has a great price on this excellent memroy card, and their return policy and customer service are top notch.
Customer Review: SanDisk Extreme III's are Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
I have several SanDisk Extreme III compact flash cards: 2Gig and 4Gig cards. I've never had a problem with any of them, and they are fast, not only to write to (if you have a camera that can write a lot in a burst, as I do, both a Canon 30D and a Canon 40D) but it's also really fast to copy your pictures off of these cards to a PC, especially if your PC's reader can process them quickly! On my 30D and 40D cameras, I save both the large JPG and the RAW files to the SanDisk cards, and I can shoot in the mode that will take many per second, and these cards have always been able to keep up with the cameras. I will only use these. I have shot in temperatures from 110 degrees F and in places below -10 degrees F with these cards, and I have never a problem with the cards.
You have to be careful, though, as once I bought one of these from an online auction place, for a price that was too good to be true, and it turned out to look like a real one, but it was a knock off. It was not as fast as the real thing (it didn't have a serial number on it, but other than the missing serial number, it looked real). So, buyer beware. I returned it to the seller who was on the other side of the world from me. Cards sold directly from Amazon have never been a problem for me - I buy cameras and camera components all the time from Amazon, and have always been happy with each purchase.
Update: December 2008 - I just added a SanDisk 8GB Extreme III CF Card to my inventory and I could not be happier. Works great and keeps up with my Canon EOS 30D and my Canon EOS 40D.
Customer Review: You get what you pay for, and this one is worth it.
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this flash card to revive my Palm LifeDrive, whose internal Hitachi MicroDrive had died, with the telltale clicking death rattle.
It turns out that MicroDrives and CompactFlash cards plug into the same socket.
Ordinarily, this procedure will void your warranty, but my LifeDrive was already long beyond that, so I had nothing to lose.
So, carefully following the instructions on some PalmOne forums, I disassembled the LD, removed the dead MicroDrive, installed the operating system image on this CompactFlash card, plugged it in, then reassembled the LD.
I charged the battery, which had already long been run down as a consequence of the death rattling drive, then turned it on.
Within a minute, I had completely brought the LD back to life, resurrection, if you will.
Not only that, but this little repair actually makes the LD significantly better than when I bought it new.
I now get about twice the battery life as before; the access the CompactFlash is so much faster than the sluggish MicroDrive; it shaves a few grams of weight off the LD; and it is also far more shock resistant.
This card is a bit more expensive than most generic CF cards, but you get better transfer speeds, plus this card is designed to be weather resistant, which would be helpful with my LD, since I carry it in my shirt breast pocket, and perspiration can cause problems with less durable components.
The card arrived within a week after I ordered it, which turned out to be a full week less than estimated.
Excellent!
Customer Review: Simply the best
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought I was dreaming a nightmare when I read a review that gave 3 stars to this product because of a limitaton in the product it was used in. I have several SanDisk Extreme III CF and SD (1 gig SD) cards, and they are nothing less than rock solid awesome. I use the SD cards in a Canon S2 IS, and a 1D Mk II N. The CF cards live in the 1D pretty much all of the time.
Other companies make pretty fast and durable flash cards, but SanDisk Extreme III cards are the fastest, and damn near bullet proof to boot. In my humble opinion, they are the best you can buy at the present time. If I happened to have an older camera that is limited in it's data transfer speed by virtue of it's vintage, I would still buy the most reliable, and fastest flash media available for it.
The day will come when a new camera tickles your fancy, and it would be a shame to have to discard your current collection of flash cards just because they are too slow to work with your new camera. CF and SD flash cards are here to stay for awhile. They have a lifetime of very active use rated at better than ten years. I can only speak for myself, but in a ten year period, I might buy several cameras.
Go for the best price, but go for the best product too. The SanDisk Extreme III cards cost as little as fifty Dollars per gig, and leave plenty of room for future camera updates.
Customer Review: Sandisk Compact Flash has retained excellence
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for a Konica Minolta A200 not long after it came out. Previous I had used a micro drive (which no one should ever use) which had been somewhat more economical for it's size at the time, though ultimately failed due to it's design.
Compact Flash such as this one is far more reliable and faster (this one does 30mbps.) If you were to switch it out with a slower drive you will immediately start noticing how much better the Sandisk is. Even to this day when smaller SD cards are being used, the CF has a significantly faster read/write speed, and you will be hard pressed to take advantage of the capabilities using anything less than a good CF card such as this.
Now there are much larger CF cards and faster (UDMA is 60mbps or more) cards, and even if I don't end up replacing this 4 gb Sandisk with a newer one, I will certainly consider the advantages of CF in a camera purchase and only buy a camera with CF capabilities because the smaller cards simply don't function well enough.
The Sony A77 looks promising if it allows for CF as they initially claimed. Will see hopefully.