SanDisk Ultra Compact Flash 2GB Card (SDCFH-002G-A11) (Retail Package)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of SanDisk Ultra Compact Flash 2GB Card (SDCFH-002G-A11) (Retail Package)
Customer Review: Good capacity, good speed, good price
Summary: 5 Stars
The SanDisk 2GB Ultra II is hitting a sweet spot in terms of capacity, speed and price. Last I checked the price for one of these was under $80. I now own two of them.
I use these cards in a Canon 20D digital camera. Since I shoot RAW images write speed is critical. The Ultra II cards do an admirable job keeping up with the RAW images. In contrast, my standard SanDisk cards are painfully slow in my 20D! On a recent trip I filled up my 2GB card and had to switch to using my three 512MB standard SanDisk cards. Their write speed was so slow compared to the Ultra II I was frequently forced to wait while the camera said "BUSY". Hence my purchase of a second 2GB Ultra II.
My advice: If you're shooting a 6MP, 8MP or larger camera in RAW mode get the fastest cards you can. SanDisk Ultra II seems just about the right speed.
Rob Galbraith has a great web site with a database of CF cards and their read/write speeds when used in different cameras. Look up your camera and the cards you're thinking of buying to make sure the performance will be good.
Customer Review: Great digital storage
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a Canon Rebel XTI digital SLR and I have used these cards. In fact I have 4-2gb cards and a 1gb card and I have had no problems with these cards. I have no complaints with the cards and record my pictures very quickly. I shoot in the RAW + JPG mode which means that I am storing 17mb (14mb RAW and 3MB) for each picture I take. There is a slight pause after about 5 pictures which is great considering that it is really saving 10 picture (5 RAW and 5 JPG).
I have not used the Extreme CF cards but I really don't feel I need the supposed extra speed. The cost factors between the Ultra and Extreme CF cards to don't justify purchasing the Extreme CF cards.
Also I do not download my pictures via the camera I use a card reader. Using the Canon Zoom Browser Utility it is a bit slow downloading to the hard drive. This I am sure is caused by the fact that my HD is nearly full and writing to my temp directory slows things down the most.
Over all I feel that this is a great card.
Customer Review: Perfectly wonderful smaller memory card...
Summary: 5 Stars
Now that my daughter is 6, well, 6-and-a-half, she would tell you, I decided it was time for her to grow up from certain childish things, like the junky and cheap "kiddie" digital cameras with various animated characters stenciled on the exteriors.
Having been a Nikon user for decades, I thought she needed to be brought up in the correct way as well and let her take possession of my old Nikon CoolPix 2500, an older 2-megapixel camera. I apparently used the memory card for this camera in some other application and could not find any laying around, so I needed to purchase a new card, one that would work with the Nikon.
This SanDisk card fit the bill perfectly! As it is a 2-gigabyte card, it works perfectly will with older CF-card equipped cameras and was just as fast and secure as I could want, even after being banged around by a first-grader and her Daisy Scout friends.
I reccommend this product to anyone who needs a nice CF card but can't use the newer, larger capacity cards.
Customer Review: Cards are Inexpensive, Cameras are Spendy, Buy a Decent Card
Summary: 5 Stars
Boys and girls here is the deal. When digital cameras first came out the cards were pretty spendy. In fact, I can remember when I worked for Viking Components and the first mega promotion we did was a dollar per megabyte sale here on Amazon.com. It was wildly popular because it was a crazy low price point. Yes, that was when a 256MB CF card sold for two fifty six dollars.
Now you can buy 2GB+ cards for under a hundred bucks. They are inexpensive, cheap, no cuesta mucho dinero, etc. My advise now is to buy the highest quality card you can find for under $100 and crank up the settings on your digital camera to the highest JPEG setting possible. Get the most out of your digital camera and flash card. You spent hundreds if not over a thousand bucks on your digital camera so utilize its full potential with a decent card.
Personally, I prefer the SanDisk Ultra II brand now. Sure there are some personal reasons involved, but mostly they just have a really good quality product.
Customer Review: An excellent value for the digital photographer
Summary: 5 Stars
Two gigabytes in a pretty fast CF card for well under $100 (March 2006) is a pretty darned good deal. I have used this card constantly in my Nikon D70s with excellent results. While there may be faster cards, this one is plenty fast, and allows my Nikon to shoot approximately 258 RAW shots. Pretty impressive. While pros may notice a difference in image saving speed in situations involving top-of-the-line pro digital cameras and rapid-fire sports shots and the like, most amateurs will not, and most digital cameras probably cannot save images as fast as this card anyway, causing the camera, not the CF card, to be the bottleneck.
Right now 2 Gigabytes seems to be at the "sweet spot" of price/performance for these cards, and here Sandisk has produced an excellent product. I have used Sandisk CF cards for years and found them to be reliable and quick. This 2GB card is an excellent value.