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SanDisk 32 MB CompactFlash Card

SanDisk 32 MB CompactFlash Card

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It gets the job done
Review: ...And it does it well. For the price, the 32mb is the best value. Unless you plan on taking hundreds of High Res, Large format pictures, don't waste money on a larger card. I use this card with a Canon S100 and I'm very happy with the results. I've never had to worry about running out of space when shooting low res(640x480) almost 300 pics, and in Hi Res Mode (overkill) it can still handle more than 30. I've taken and deleted hundreds of pictures with no problems.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It gets the job done
Review: ...And it does it well. For the price, the 32mb is the best value. Unless you plan on taking hundreds of High Res, Large format pictures, don't waste money on a larger card. I use this card with a Canon S100 and I'm very happy with the results. I've never had to worry about running out of space when shooting low res(640x480) almost 300 pics, and in Hi Res Mode (overkill) it can still handle more than 30. I've taken and deleted hundreds of pictures with no problems.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: **Go Crazy**
Review: At 1024 x 768 resolution, this memory card holds 200-390 images on my Polaroid PDC-700 camera (that's like 8-16 rolls of film). The price and capacity are just right for weekend trips or special events. **Go crazy** and take pictures of anything and everything that catches your eye!

I took 89 pictures in 5 hours at my company's "Relay for Life" event on Friday, and really enjoyed not having to "budget" my photos or worry about running out of film. The image quality was excellent, and downloading was quick & easy with a digital film reader.

I'm planning a 2-week trip to Spain this fall, and am considering an additional 32MB SanDisk memory card just in case I get **Too Crazy**. Does anyone know if they make a storage case for spare memory cards?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: a good compromise between price and memory size
Review: Commend added in December 2002: this review was written when 2 megapixel cameras were top of the line, and a 32 MB card costed over a hundred dollars. Now, the prices have dropped so much that the same review would be more applicable to a 128 or 256 MB card. - A.I.

Nobody would argue that the more memory you have in your digital camera, the better. The question is what the reasonable compromise between the price of a memory card and its size is, and how to predict how much memory you actually need before you paid for it. I looked up some literature on the image compression techniques, and made some experiments with printing out pictures with different resolution and different compression ratios, and came to the following conclusions.

Most cameras offer a choice between several picture resolutions and several image compression modes. Low resolution is good for on-screen viewing, while high resolution is better suited for printouts. It is not uncommon for digital photographers to take pictures at a resolution lower than the maximum allowed by their camera, although there seems to be no point of buying an expensive high-resolution camera to take low-resolution pictures. A probable reason for that is that their camera was shipped with a very small memory card and did not upgrade it yet. Unfortunately, high resolution images require lots of storage space: an uncompressed image taken by a 3 megapixel camera can be as large as 10 MB. JPEG compression, which is based on an algorithm specifically developed for image compressing helps to store large pictures in relatively small files. Specifically, JPEG compression algorithm divides an image into squares 8*8 pixels each, performes two-dimensional discrete cosine trasform of each of these squares, and compresses their frequency spectra by removing the high-frequency components or by decreasing their accuracy through a "quantization" procedure. While this review is not appropriate for a discussion of technical details of the JPEG algorithm, it is worth saying that JPEG analyzes each small "brick" of the image individually and adapts the level of smoothing/compressing to the image to be compressed. In fact, you determine not the size of the compressed image, but the level of its quality: the final size of the compressed file varies depending on each particular image. This "adaptive" nature of JPEG makes it very efficient: it takes advantage of the smoothness of monotonically colored parts of the image by achieving great compression ratios in those areas without significant losses in quality, and it is also good at rendering sharp contrasts in the image. Since JPEG standard was optimized to take into account the specifics of our perception of visual information (like mp3 compression of music files takes advantage of the way how we hear music), JPEG compressed pictures are almost undistinguishable from the originals up to the compression ratios of 1:8 to 1:12.

Therefore, a combination of highest possible resolution of your camera with the "fine" (or "best") compression mode is a good choice for a digital photographer. If this combination of resolution and compression is used, a 32 MB memory card would be sufficient for about 36 pictures taken by a 3 megapixel camera, or for about 48 pictures taken by a 2 megapixel camera. This is equivalent to one or two rolls of film, which is not a lot, but usually suffices for a day of occasional shooting. Hence, it seems to me that a 32 MB memory card is a good buy for the most of us.

Just the last comment: note that there are two types of memory, flash and SmartMedia. Check you camera manual which one you need. SmartMedia memory cards are slimmer, if I am not mistaken.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Unlimited amount of uses.....
Review: Excellent product for the price. I use this flashcard for my Cassiopeia E-105, it really helps me save valuable memory space for my handheld. It has an unlimited amount of uses allowing the user to download mp3's, programs & games. Very easy to use (drag & drop) files right into the card, create a shortcut on your handheld & thats all there is to it. Extremely convenient, compact & very reliable. Don't know how I got along without one. Highly recommend!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Unlimited amount of uses.....
Review: Excellent product for the price. I use this flashcard for my Cassiopeia E-105, it really helps me save valuable memory space for my handheld. It has an unlimited amount of uses allowing the user to download mp3's, programs & games. Very easy to use (drag & drop) files right into the card, create a shortcut on your handheld & thats all there is to it. Extremely convenient, compact & very reliable. Don't know how I got along without one. Highly recommend!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: SanDisk and Viking are the top names in CompactFlash Cards
Review: I didn't realize that there are large differences between brands of CompactFlash cards until I purchased (thinking that I was saving money) an inferior, "no name" brand. The generic card literally fell apart on me.

After making that mistake, I researched through the tech boards and unequivically, the SanDisk and the Viking disks received the best reviews and the highest ratings.

I chose the SanDisk brand because its price was better than the Viking's without foregoing the quality as I had done previously.

This is a great buy at the current, discounted price. Take advantage of it while the sale price is still available!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice product but one picture less
Review: I had this product for my Kodak DC3400. It works fine and I do not regret this purchase. But it is funny that , this card can only store 51 pictures , compared with 52 pics of the 32M Kodak card bought with the camera, at the same quality and resolution. As far as I know, all kodak cards are made by Sandisk :-)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Super storage at the right price!
Review: I have a 32 MB Sandisk Compact Flash card for my Nikon Coolpix 950, a 2-megapixel digital cam. This card will allow you to record about 50 pictures at the standard (640x480) resolution, so if you find you're not a 'power user' of your camera, it should be plenty - and the dollars-to-megabyte ratio is right!

However, if you regularly shoot at higher resolutions such as 1600x1200 (i.e. 8" x 10" photo quality), you won't be able to fit 20 photos on this card. In that event, you might want to think about going for their 96MB card (also available from Amazon!)

With this size card you might also want to think about going for Sandisk's inexpensive USB card reader - it's up to 50x as fast and a lot less hassle than hooking the camera up to the computer!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good Product but . . .
Review: I have a few friends that have purchased this product and it works fine. If however the price is too high or it is out of stock I would recommend the Viking CF32M (it is currently a little less expensive).

If you look at all of the reviews of both products you will see that they are very comparable in regards to quality and reliability (in fact there is one review that states the Viking card is actually faster).

Anyway, this is a good product when the price is right and it is in stock.


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