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Summary: Works great on my Zaurus
Review: I have only had this card for a few days, but it is working great on my Zaurus SL-5500. It has worked fast and flawless right out of the box. What more can I say?
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Summary: Reliable (for me), but somewhat slow
Review: I have used 2 of these 1-Gig cards for the last 6 months, and have filled them each to capacity several times using my Canon Powershot G3 (4 megapixel) & G5 (5 megapixel) cameras without a single problem. However, because I shoot exclusively in the RAW format, which produces pictures that are much larger (in filesize) than the highest-quality jpegs, differences in memory card speed are much more noticable, and this Viking card is considerably slower than the faster (and more expensive) cards offered by some other companies. If you shoot mostly jpegs, you probably won't notice a difference, and you get excellent value for the money.
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Summary: Reliable (for me), but somewhat slow
Review: I have used 2 of these 1-Gig cards for the last 6 months, and have filled them each to capacity several times using my Canon Powershot G3 (4 megapixel) & G5 (5 megapixel) cameras without a single problem. However, because I shoot exclusively in the RAW format, which produces pictures that are much larger (in filesize) than the highest-quality jpegs, differences in memory card speed are much more noticable, and this Viking card is considerably slower than the faster (and more expensive) cards offered by some other companies. If you shoot mostly jpegs, you probably won't notice a difference, and you get excellent value for the money.
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Summary: Very satisfied
Review: I have yet to experience any of the woes of other customers with viking memory. I have owned 2 other cards from them in the past in addition to this one. However, I am shopping strictly on price so I am sure one can find better quality if they are willing to put forth the extra dough. Also one might consider the availability of the compact flash hard drives. If your item supports it, you can easily equip it with a 4GB hard drive that you can harvest from a Creative Nomad Muvo 2 mp3 player. Hope my review helped you out.
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Summary: Viking quality is GOING DOWN!!
Review: I originally bought this Viking 1GB CF card because its attractive low price and Viking brand name. But after having owned this card for a week and taking about 100 pics and about 20min of video w/it, I have to return it because it's defective. I am using it with a Canon S50. The first 70 shots were fine, but then after that when I went to review the pics in the camera, it gave me a "Data corrupt" error message. I went home and put the card in 2 different USB CF card readers and about 1/2 of the pictures are gone FOREVER! Thankfully, the videos were okay. Regrettably, I have to return the card because I don't want to take any chances w/future pics. I liked the low price but I think I've seen Sandisk and Kingston brand and a few other brands for around the same price. I wouldn't recommend this brand to anyone unless you are willing to go through the hassle of returning it and want to take chances with losing your valuable memories because of data corruption in the card. I'm really disappointed, I used to think Viking was a good name brand.
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Summary: Card Errors, Service disapointment
Review: I really hate writing a reveiw that isn't 4 or 5 stars, but feel I really have to w/ this product. It's only "average", at best. To start with, it's writing ability is not all that fast. I've had memory sticks write faster and the other CF cards that I own, write faster than this particluar model. It's still fast enough, don't get me wrong. But if you want to capture a large series of photos (say a football game, a race, etc), this card is not the one for you. It will do fine for other things.. music, etc.. but not fast photography. The next thing is has me wondering if it's a fluke or if it will repeat itself (am still testing). I went out Sunday, shooting and used this card exclusively. There's about 15 pictures that 'vanished'. They did not write to the card, for some reason. The camera was on, and everything and I know I took the pictures.. but when I returned home to process them, they weren't there. I have NEVER had this happen to me before w/ any camera or media that I've used. As I said, I'm still testing to see if it was a fluke or something repeatable... but I have to ask, are your pictures worth that chance? Maybe it's just a bad card.. but I've purchased tons of different media cards, and this would be the first that was bad. I guess I still have to test out Vikings ability to process problems. Just keep these things in mind when purchasing this one.. Maybe a slightly different card would be a better answer to your needs.
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Summary: average card, average performance
Review: I really hate writing a reveiw that isn't 4 or 5 stars, but feel I really have to w/ this product. It's only "average", at best. To start with, it's writing ability is not all that fast. I've had memory sticks write faster and the other CF cards that I own, write faster than this particluar model. It's still fast enough, don't get me wrong. But if you want to capture a large series of photos (say a football game, a race, etc), this card is not the one for you. It will do fine for other things.. music, etc.. but not fast photography. The next thing is has me wondering if it's a fluke or if it will repeat itself (am still testing). I went out Sunday, shooting and used this card exclusively. There's about 15 pictures that 'vanished'. They did not write to the card, for some reason. The camera was on, and everything and I know I took the pictures.. but when I returned home to process them, they weren't there. I have NEVER had this happen to me before w/ any camera or media that I've used. As I said, I'm still testing to see if it was a fluke or something repeatable... but I have to ask, are your pictures worth that chance? Maybe it's just a bad card.. but I've purchased tons of different media cards, and this would be the first that was bad. I guess I still have to test out Vikings ability to process problems. Just keep these things in mind when purchasing this one.. Maybe a slightly different card would be a better answer to your needs.
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Summary: average card, average performance
Review: I really hate writing a reveiw that isn't 4 or 5 stars, but feel I really have to w/ this product. It's only "average", at best. To start with, it's writing ability is not all that fast. I've had memory sticks write faster and the other CF cards that I own, write faster than this particluar model. It's still fast enough, don't get me wrong. But if you want to capture a large series of photos (say a football game, a race, etc), this card is not the one for you. It will do fine for other things.. music, etc.. but not fast photography. The next thing is has me wondering if it's a fluke or if it will repeat itself (am still testing). I went out Sunday, shooting and used this card exclusively. There's about 15 pictures that 'vanished'. They did not write to the card, for some reason. The camera was on, and everything and I know I took the pictures.. but when I returned home to process them, they weren't there. I have NEVER had this happen to me before w/ any camera or media that I've used. As I said, I'm still testing to see if it was a fluke or something repeatable... but I have to ask, are your pictures worth that chance? Maybe it's just a bad card.. but I've purchased tons of different media cards, and this would be the first that was bad. I guess I still have to test out Vikings ability to process problems. Just keep these things in mind when purchasing this one.. Maybe a slightly different card would be a better answer to your needs.
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Summary: This card does it all!
Review: I sold a 512MB card that was rated at 25x and purchased this card as a replacement. I notice *NO* difference in speed when I use this card with my Nikon D100! It is rated at 13x/16x read/write however I find that it works well within my needs. I recommend this card and plan to purchase more of the same. I tend to be loyal to a brand that I have come to trust, and this is one of those brands!
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Summary: Works great! No problem.
Review: I use the Viking 1 GB Compact Flash in my Fuji Finepix S2 Pro. I've had no problem with it.
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