PNY 128 MB CompactFlash Flash Memory Card

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Summary: How many pictures will it store?
Review: How many pictures will it store? It is the most commonly asked question from digital camera enthusiast but usually the question that is the most difficult to get a straight answer about. Well, considering I worked in the memory industry for over 7 years I can help clarify this perplexing question and do so unbiased as I have since changed industries.

The PNY 128MB CompactFlash Flash Memory Card, like most 128MB cards, will store on average 142 pictures when used with a 2 megapixel camera, 106 images when used with a 3 megapixel camera, 64 pictures when used with a 4 megapixel camera, 51 images when used with a 5 megapixel camera, and 40 pictures when used with a 6 megapixel camera. These numbers are based off the assumption that you are going to shoot your images at the highest quality JPEG setting available for the camera and understand that they are estimates and may be off by as much as 10 percent due to numerous factors including the complexity of the scene being shot and the compression algorithm used by your specific camera.

I truly hope this review was helpful to you in determining whether this card is the right capacity for your specific needs.

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Summary: Digital camera user
Review: I bought a 128 PNY CF memory card for my Minolta 404 almost two years ago, made thousands of pictures and down load many times. Never have problems. It was kind slow when I made fine quality (TIFF) pictures.

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Summary: PNY card is a piece of [stuff]-- Zero Stars
Review: I bought a 128MB PNY flash memory card for my Cannon Digital Elf while on a weekend trip in Chicago. When I returned home to download the pictures, a few were corrupted giving the CF card error message. I figured it was a fluke and reformatted the card. Took the camera to Cancun and took about 10-20 pictures a day with a failure rate of about 25%. Went skiing a few weeks later and took about 80 pictures of which about 40 were unretrievable. I repeat, if you want to keep your memories choose a different memory card.

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Summary: a disappointment
Review: I bought a card with my camera in January 2003 and loved how many photos I could take. However every now and then, some photos would come out as a corrupted image and I often had difficulties downloading images to my computer. The biggest disappointment occured when at the END of a girls night out weekend in Vegas, the card died altogether, stating a CF Card Error, with a lot of great shots and movie clips...gone. Thanks for a renewed skepticism of digital recording.

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Summary: a disappointment
Review: I bought a card with my camera in January 2003 and loved how many photos I could take. However every now and then, some photos would come out as a corrupted image and I often had difficulties downloading images to my computer. The biggest disappointment occured when at the END of a girls night out weekend in Vegas, the card died altogether, stating a CF Card Error, with a lot of great shots and movie clips...gone. Thanks for a renewed skepticism of digital recording.

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Summary: PNY card is a piece of [stuff]-- Zero Stars
Review: I bought this card for my Nikon Coolpix 2100 and about 50% of the time I get "this card cannot be used." The seller told me something was wrong with the camera and gave me a new one that did the same thing. I have also had similar (though not as bad) problems with the 64mb CF card, too. I will never buy a PNY CF card again. I have no problems with the Kodak 64.

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Summary: Total waste of money
Review: I bought this card for my Nikon Coolpix 2100 and about 50% of the time I get "this card cannot be used." The seller told me something was wrong with the camera and gave me a new one that did the same thing. I have also had similar (though not as bad) problems with the 64mb CF card, too. I will never buy a PNY CF card again. I have no problems with the Kodak 64.

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Summary: A waste of money
Review: I haven't had the reliability problems spoken of here when used in my Canon A70. However, I have had compatibility problems when trying to download using a third party USB 2.0 card reader. This is the only brand of compact flash that was incompatible out of four others I tried. I was forced to download directly from the camera at USB 1.1 speed.
Also, this thing has a write speed at least half as fast as other CF cards available (except for Sandisk). It slowed photo operations significantly.

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Summary: BUY ANOTHER BRAND
Review: I purchased 2 PNY 128MB compact flash on 11/27/02. One so far is working fine, the other one however is not. I can take pictures with my digital camera, and only about half of them turn out. I am also unable to down load them to my computer. I have tried for 3 days to contact PNY, I have left 2 messages, and still no return call. My problem is not only with the product, but also with the customer service. Unless I hear from them soon, I will cut my losses and buy another brand.

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Summary: Buy a different brand!
Review: My girlfriend's Canon S230 Powershot camera uses the 128mb PNY flashcard. Recently we started getting errors. The memory gets corrupted and we lose pictures--lots! It also becomes a problem to download the remaining pictures as we are forced to download them one at a time. Customer Service at Best Buy said that they have seen a lot of problems like this with PNY flash cards. When I called PNY customer service for a replacement they said that this happens with memory cards after a while and that I should just keep reformatting the card. Now every time I take pictures I wonder which ones I'm going to lose. Try a different manufacturer.