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| Date Reviewed: 10/29/2004 |
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Strengths: Fast and reliable
Weaknesses: None
Summary: This is a perfect card for anyone with a Digital SLR, or high mega pixel camera. It is rated at 80X, which corresponds to 12 MB/sec transfer speeds. I found this card to be the fastest CF card I've ever used.
One point - you will absolutely not notice the speed of this card if you have a consumer level, 2 - 5 megapixel camera. A five megapixel JPEG image is about 2.5 MB for example - a card with 12 MB/sec write speeds isn't needed. If, however, you have a digital SLR, or a camera with an uncompressed image format (RAW, TIFF, etc), get this card.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/17/2004 |
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Strengths: - Large capacity
- Made in the USA
- Lifetime warranty
- Free Image Rescue and trial-version of Photo Mechanic
Weaknesses: None
Summary: Though this Lexar 1GB compact flash is a bit more expensive than a similar Sandisk Ultra II 1GB, it is worth the extra money for the higher speed and two free software. The Image Rescue software helps recover lost or deleted images while the trial-version of the Photo Mechanic software allows picture viewing and editting.
The read/write speed is only noticeable when used with a high-speed card reader. It is not as noticeable on a Canon S60 unless the continous shooting mode is used or pictures are being reviewed.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/11/2004 |
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Strengths: SUPER FAST
Weaknesses: none
Summary: This card is worth the extra price if you have the need for speed. One of the Best (if not the best) CF cards on the market. Retail package come with some bonus items.
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| Date Reviewed: 12/15/2004 |
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Strengths: Speed,
Value for Money,
Bonus Software
Weaknesses: None
Summary: I used a Kingston 512MB and a standard Lexar 1G CF cards on my Canon 10D before I purchased this one. The speed improvement is immediately noticeable, especially when I preview the photos I just took. Also when I transfer images files from this card to my laptop, it is very fast. My previous cards are no comprison.
However, the speed improvement is definitely not 20 times faster (compare 80X of this card to 4X of the standard Lexar 1G). I probably need a faster camera to take the full advantage of this card.
In short, it is a worthy buy.
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| Date Reviewed: 09/30/2004 |
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Strengths: Lightenly fast!
Weaknesses: None
Summary: I got this from Amazon. It works great with my Nikon 8700. I can store the RAW file in a second, which I can't do with another Sandisk card. As always, Lexar has the best media for your digital camera. Even my Nikon has a Lexar logo on the box. Plain, great card. The best you can get now.
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| Date Reviewed: 07/25/2004 |
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Strengths: Speed & capacity -- more is better for 5+ MPixel camera memory
Weaknesses: Cost appears to be high but, as always, prices will drop. So, don't buy more GB than you need right now. The price will go down soon as the 4&8GB cards arrive on the scene to replace 1&2GB cards.
Summary: I borrowed this card from my professional photographer friend for a week -- he swears by this Lexar card as the best for his 10MP camera. After using his card, I was convinced of his opinion and immediately bought one when he extracted his card back out of my camera. At least I got a chance to download the images. I own another brand rated at 40x but the WA technology along with the 80x speed of the Lexar card made a huge difference in my 8MPixel camera, cutting the time required to store RAW images by about 50%. Considering that a locked up camera (waiting to finish saving images) is momentarily useless, the extra cost for the 80X over the 40X (or some other brand without WA technology) is repaid by less frustration and less delay in shooting the next image. Buy only the memory you really need now -- prices always drop and a 2GB card now costs twice as much as a 1GB card -- no discount for a quantity purchase. No regrets here on spending a little extra now for the best.
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| Date Reviewed: 09/23/2004 |
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Strengths: This card is very fast compared to the SanDisk, Viking, Dana-Elect. Can hold a lot of pictures.
Weaknesses: The price is quite high.
Summary: 2004-10-19 14:42:02 Before you buy this Compact Flash, you got to ask yourself if your camera will benefit from it. If the answer is yes, I would say buy it. Unless you plan to sell your camera, it better investment for the long term to buy it. Using pricegrabber, I found that it's about $20 more than competitors. I am very happy with the speed of it. I think the leading contenders down to my list was the Sandisk Ultra II or Lexar Media 80X. The Lexar Media is spec at 12MB/sec where the SanDisk has a write at 9MB/sec and read at 10MB/sec. So that made my decision easy. All the other brands didn't come close.
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| Date Reviewed: 09/13/2004 |
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Strengths: high speed, a 30-day trial version of Photo Mechanic software preloaded onto it.
Weaknesses: not found so far
Summary: i think it is a really good deal as a good quanlity memory card and a trial version software, you will have to ask for speed when it is 1 GB size. there is a cupone inside as well as a memory case. i am very satisfied.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/04/2004 |
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Strengths: came with photo mechanic, photo rescue. Also has lifetime warranty
Weaknesses: NA
Summary: works great in my new D70 camera.. write speeds are quite fast compared to older CF cards with slower write speeds. I would definately buy some more to replace my older cards currently in use...
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| Date Reviewed: 09/09/2004 |
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Strengths: Price wasn't bad with the $30 rebate. It came to $110 (incl shipping). For a 1gb 80x card, not bad.
Weaknesses: Even though this is a 80x WA card, you don't really notice the speed that much with a 5 mega pixel digiccam. It's only noticeable with higher mega pixel, more professional digiccams
Summary: 2004-09-09 14:33:42 If you're an amatuer photographer or your digiccam does not have a high mega pixel, then you don't really need something with such high speed. You won't really notice it that much. You can find something of lesser price with lower speed. But Lexar is a good brand and so is Sandisk.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/11/2004 |
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Strengths: Size, speed
Weaknesses: None
Summary: Very fast card.
I have a Fuji FinePix S7000 6.3 MP camera.
With the camera set to the 6 MegaPixel Fine setting, I get 680 images; in the high quality video mode I get 14+ minutes of recording.
Love this card.
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| Date Reviewed: 09/20/2004 |
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Strengths: Very fast card
Weaknesses: Pricey
Summary: If you require fast compact flash then this is the one. I can feel significant diference compare to regular SANDISK. I use it with D100, shooting RAW and download using generic USB 2.0 Card Reader and X DRIVE. This was better deal than SANDISK EXTREME. I would like to try SANDISK ULTRA or EXTREME later.
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| Date Reviewed: 12/13/2004 |
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Strengths: This card is fast!
Weaknesses: None.
Summary: I bought this card to be used in a Canon Digital Rebel camera. I had read that Compact Flash can be slow, and that it gets frustrating taking a picture, then waiting a long time for the picture to write to the flash card.
So, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a High Speed flash card instead. I tell you, it only takes 2-3 seconds to write a picture, which is barely noticeable, and for my camera it stores about 300 or so High Resolution pictures (these are like 40" x 20" wide)! Or about 100 or so Super High Resolution RAW pictures. I'm a graphics professional and I can tell already that I will not need to use RAW very much at all.
I love this card!
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| Date Reviewed: 10/02/2004 |
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Strengths: Data saves quickly. Card hold a lot.
Weaknesses: none
Summary: When you are using a compactflash card to make mini movies this works quickly. I like the large capacity and speed of this card. I was glad that I found this product at Pricegrabbers. I would buy it again. I may buy a 2gb in the future.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/16/2004 |
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 I compared this card on my Canaon digital Rebel wi ... Strengths: none
Weaknesses: Not fast at all
Summary: I compared this card on my Canaon digital Rebel with other two standrad cards (512 mb Viking and 1Gb Kingston)and found that there was essentially no difference. It took a little more than 13 seconds to write four "large" pictures (3.1 to 3.5MB each)for the two standard cards and a little more than 12 seconds for this so called "80x" card. When I continuosly shot for 15 pictures, it took about 55 seconds for the standard cards and 50 seconds for this card. All other conditions (scene, ISO speed, aperture, shutter, etc) were exactly the same.
I know that the performance varies from camera to camera. The product description says that it includes "write acceleration" but it doesn't say that it is just a standard card if your camera does not have the same "write acceleration" feature. With the experience, I am very suspicious about the 80x speed even for cameras having the WA capability. Actually I knew that I wouldn't get 80x on my camera. I didn't expect it could deliver a spped 10 times faster than my standard cards (I would be extremely happy if it ould be 5 times faster). I didn't expect, EITHER, that it was not faster at all.
Conclusion: don't spend extra money on this "high" speed card unless you are sure that it does give you the speed you expect on your camera.
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