Viking 128 MB CompactFlash Card (CF128M)

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Summary: Great value for money!
Review: I bought a 128 MB card a year ago and in December it got soaked in water at a Disney waterpark. I fished it out of the camera, saw it was completely soaked. So hoping for the best I dried it with the hotel hair dryer (on cool) as it had all my Disney vacation pics on it..and I could not bear to throw it away without checking. Wonder of wonders it still worked though my Canon A70 camera had no such luck, and I was able to download all my photos. I am still using it everyday since then in my new Canon camera as I am an avid photographer. I take about 30-40 pictures a day and delete them at the end of the day once I download them onto my computer. I am quite happy with it as even with a 4 MP camera on high resolution it gives me enough memory for about a 100 photos and since I download frequently to my laptop even when on vacation I have never needed more. All in all great value for money!

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Summary: Junk Card! Don't go for it
Review: I bought this 4 weeks back. When I try to shoot quick events (like fire works, baby smile etc,) by the time I get the picture the actual event what ever I intend to shoot goes off! It has very bad write speed. It's good for taking slow pictures of still objects only.

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Summary: Great card, but slow write speed
Review: I've been using this card with my Canon S400 for the past 9 months and am very pleased with it. However, about a month ago, I noticed that the write speed increased from about a second to three-four seconds per image. It's kind of annoying since it was so quick before, but other than that, the card has served me well!

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Summary: Good value, but watch out for compatibility
Review: Unlike Lexar or Sandisk, Viking does not design or make the components that go into their flash memory cards, instead they use off-the-shelf components (controller and memory core) made by others. This means two things: 1) lower cost (to Viking), and 2) compatibility with devices may not be as robust as Lexar or Sandisk. There have been numerous reports about incompatibility between Viking flash memory and various digital cameras and PDAs. You should do a web search before buying this product.

That said, this Viking CF card should work in most digital cameras or older Pocket PCs that take CF. The rated speed of 8x means this is not suitable for digital SLR's such as the Nikon D70 or Canon EOS Digital Rebel which need higher-speed CF cards (40x or higher). Most consumer, non-SLR digital cameras will find the speed of this card more than adequate. 128MB holds about 80-100 5MP, high-quality pictures (depending on the complexity of each picture and the particular camera model). I personally recommend if you have a 4MP or more camera, you should have a 256MB memory card as your primary card, while carrying a 128MB card like this Viking as a spare.

In short, this Viking 128MB CF card is good for the money. Just make sure it's compatible with your digital camera.

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Summary: Viking vs. Sandisk
Review: First I bought a sandisk and after a month of use got damaged, I tryed to comunicate with them a lot, they have the worst customer service, then i gave up. then i bought this Viking like a year ago, and im still using it.

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Summary: Rebate is a scam
Review: The company's business practice of making it tremendously difficult to receive your rebate makes this one of the worse experiences I've had with any company. Luckily, my rebate was for only $20. Besides the unethical business practice, the card itself is only ok - write speed is average at best, and that's giving it the benefit of the doubt.

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Summary: They denied the rebate request, what a rip-off!
Review: Your rebate submission has been received.
Unfortunately your rebate is denied for the following reasons:
REQUEST POSTMARKED AFTER CLOSE OF PROGRAM DEADLINE
REQUIRED POSTMARK BEFORE 09/10/04; ACTUAL POSTMARK 09/13/04
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There was absolutely no cut-off submission deadline given, except the purchase by date and submit within a certain time after receiving purchase.
All were followed to the "T".

I submitted the rebate immediately after I received the merchandise from Amazon.

Give me a break, I'll never touch another thing from viking except with a 10' pole.

If it was not so piddling an amount, this would be worth reporting to FCC, but the state of customer protection in this country make you jump through even more hoops, probably for nothing, more heartache.
Just forego rebates, send Viking back to the boat and purchase another brand.

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Summary: You May Not See Your Rebate
Review: So far, the only way I have been able to obtain my rebate is to pester the rebate company for months until they finally decide I am not going to give up until I get my rebate. Not worht it. The company uses a web site called "wheresmyrebate" com. Do not trust them. Other than that, the card is excelent and I recomend the card, just not the company policies.

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Summary: Nice Card
Review: I bought this card for my digital camera and I have had it for a while now. I have not had any problems with it, it was fairly cheap, and the speed seems to be fine. I reccomend it for anything except recording full 640x480 video at 30 FPS, because since this isn't a high speed card, when I tried to record at that quality and resolution, I only got about 15 or 20 seconds of movie recording time before the card got too slow. Other than that, I like this card and reccomend it

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Summary: Amazing Customer Service though....
Review: I bought the 128MB card 8-9 mnths ago. At first didnt notice it but the usable memory kept getting smaller! Finally it gave a 'Error Reading Card' message and stopped working. Customer service at Viking was very very helpful and prompt. They replaced the card is 7 days. They also tried to retrieve some of the images that I had considered 'lost' in the card and sent me a CD with the images on it! I was impressed with the excellent support, but not too impressed that the card died so early in its life. Would I buy it again? Yes but likely go for keeping a backup card on hand at all times as well.