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SanDisk 128 MB SmartMedia Card

SanDisk 128 MB SmartMedia Card

List Price: $49.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Card does what it's suppose to seemlessly
Review: I purchased the card to use with my Olympus D-370. I've taken hundreds of pictures. I move them to my Laptop via PCMCIA card. Never a problem.

I also have a PS-02 palmstudio to record music. The documentation said that 128 megs not supported (it came with 8 meg card), but I tried it and it works!

I like it when I buy something and it works better than anticipated.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Do not buy this card
Review: I recently purchased The SanDisk 128 Mb card for use with my Olympus C-3020. I have been plagued by card errors since I opened the box. On three seperate occasions I have lost valuable and irreplacable family photos that I have taken. I have never had problems with the supplied Olympus SmartMedia card or the Viking card that I have since purchased. All I can say is to be careful and always keep a back-up card with you.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: NOT the cheapest on the market!
Review: I recently received a Fuji Finepix F601 as a gift; the giver, a professional photographer, included a Fuji 128MB Smart Media Card as a matter of course. Thank goodness he knew what he was doing in terms of storage needs, at least -- the 601 only comes with a 16MB card, which on the 601 is only enough for 5 images at the highest recording level. If you're getting a compatible Fuji, Olympus, or other-brand camera, you really need the highest storage card possible.

But it turns out these cards are fragile, and fingerprints can short them out or cause problems with the camera or reader being able to access their contents. So the best way to keep them around forever is to get a 128 MB card and never remove it! Ideally, then, this should be a solution coupled with the purchase or ownership of a camera which interfaces directly (USB or firewire) with the PC, so there won't be a need to remove the card. Ever. That security, and the ability to store over a hundred 8x10 print-quality pix on one wafer-thin card, makes the bigger sized card easily worth the extra cost if you're getting a Fuji or other-brand digital camera.

As for brand...well, after trying a Fuji and a Viking card, and checking the wiring stats on both, it turns out the brand names of Smart Cards have almost nothing to do with quality -- these are, for all intents and purposes, interchangable -- so buying the cheapest one out there is the best bet. And, with rebates, the Viking card IS the cheapest Smart Media brand on the market -- by a factor of about 10% or more. With no complaints and lots of joyful picture taking happening in my house, I therefore give SanDisk five stars for the basic product, then...but take away one star for a higher cost. Sorry, SanDisk.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: No complaints so far
Review: I use it in my Olympus 3040Z without any problems. How else can one praise a memory card? :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Takes a beating, works like a charm
Review: I've subjected my SanDisk cards to abuse on 4 continents, frigid cold weather and ocean racing of sailboats and I've never had a card go bad despite the hundreds of writes/rewrites and insertions into various devices. I dropped an old camera into 10 feet of a lake - killed the camera but the SanDisk card worked after I dried it out. I can't compare it to other card manufacturers because I won't buy another one to try. I'm sold on SanDisk.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works great
Review: It works great in my Olympus camera (C700). It's fast, and I've never had any problems with it. I must admit, though, I don't have another card to compare it to.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works great
Review: It works great in my Olympus camera (C700). It's fast, and I've never had any problems with it. I must admit, though, I don't have another card to compare it to.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: New digital photographers beware
Review: My negative review is based on one experience with one card with one manufacturer. Since this was my first experience with digital photography, I am hoping I was just unlucky and that this will not prove to be a regular experience.

I purchased the Sandisk 128MB card with my Olympus 2040 camera in November and took both on a vacation to Italy. The camera worked out great, but I noticed a problem with this Sandisk card on the third photo. I knew photo #3 was lost but assumed my other photos would be okay. On my return home I tried to transfer my 240 photos to my computer, but got disk errors. I called Sandisk and the customer service rep informed me that the only way to save my photos was to send the disk to a data recovery service. I found some services on the internet, and discovered that this is a growing industry. Recovery of my photos would cost $300 - more than I am willing to pay.

I asked the Sandisk customer service rep if disk failure was a common problem. To my horror, he said yes, this happens all the time. So my advise to aspiring digital photographers is to take great care with your memory cards, test them out before important events, and always keep a backup card on hand. I have since purchased a Viking 128MB card and it has worked flawlessly. But, for the foreseeable future I will rely on my old faithful Nikon SLR as my primary way to preserve important photo memories.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sandisk 128 MB, good quality and price.
Review: Offers the following features:

*High transfer rate for fast copy/download
*Multiple storage capacity
*Unfazed by extreme weather conditions.

It is a good quality smart media card at an excellent price. Rush to get yours!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: San inSanity!
Review: This media has been perfectly reliable in capture and download through a Olympus C3040. With comparos between the Sony Memory disk and compact flash card twice the thickness, there's very little difference in r/w that I can notice. Using the 5-shot digital 'auto-winder' on the Olympus the card sucks the data down no problem. Even with repeated semi-auto firing, the memory card performs decently. It does lag at 2048x1536 (medium quality) and it will do more so at higher levels - but it's no worse than other formats. USB download through OEM cables is rapid quick compared to the slower compact flash on Kodak DC265 for some reason.

The size is unbeatable. The wear and long term use is something to keep an eye on with the contacts exposed compared to the other formats. At this price, I have no complaints buying a bunch and shooting without capacity worries.


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