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 enlarge | Brand: SanDisk
Category: CE
List Price: $53.99
Buy New: $21.94
You Save: $32.05 (59%)
New (67) Used (3) from $24.45
Rating:  153 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4.5 x 1.2
nv:Type: Compact Flash
Memory Size: 4 GB
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty
MPN: SDCFX3-004G-A31
Model: SDCFX3-004G-A31
UPC: 619659022396
EAN: 0619659022396
ASIN: B0008D76L0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 153
 When GETTING your photos matters most November 1, 2006
HMMWV (santa clara, CA USA)
18 out of 21 found this review helpful
Think about it. After spending $15,000 for a trip would you take your rolls of 35mm or APS film to the nearest corner drug store for 15 minute developing? Of course not. You would seek out the best lab in your area and explain which rolls need push processing because the flash couldn't light up enough and you'd talk to a lab chemist who would develop your photos for you. You might have a CD/DVD burned of the scans for the final touch at home, and it might cost $400 to get your film processed, but no scratches, and most importantly NO PROBLEMS.
The same holds true for large and fast memory cards. When you get to 4GB and up or 130x and up speeds, problems creep in. Will the 130x card have such a fast risetime at cold temperatures that you miss your photos on Mt. Everest? (CMOS speeds up at cold and has a ringing problem as a result). Do you have a $260,000 Thermotron environmental chamber to test your memory card at temperature and altitude before leaving on your trip? NO? Then just buy the best.
And this is the best. I had a 4GB transcend memory card. I thought I was set - I bought Amazon's Wolverine MP3/video/CF/SD reader with the 80GB user upgradable disk. All my SanDisk cards transferred flawlessly - but my "TRANSCEND" 4GB 130x card DID NOT - it locked up the Wolverine. It worked in the camera. It worked in my desktop replacement laptop (dell 1705) but it didn't work in my pocket mp3 player and card depository so I can keep on shooting without lugging the laptop with me.
This was a major issue - the wolverine was pricewise comparable with the ipod yet had SO many more features and a much larger LCD, not to mention the 2 card slots and muticard compatibility, long battery life, etc. Loosing the ability to dump the 4GB card to it was a major issue with a multimegapixel camera that can write the card so long as you hold the shutter down!
I switched and bought this card - the 4GB Extreme III which came with about $50 in software for recovery of lost data (believe me that is well worth it when you lost your Everest pictures and the camera can preview them on the card, but your pc can not transfer them at all!). The Wolverine yanks the photos out of the 4GB card like any other 1GB card and saves them to disk, even lets you preview the CF/SD cards before doing the disk transfer. And fast too.
Inside the camera (with the high speed card upgrade) write times are flawlessly fast - hold down the button in raw mode and the pictures just stream to the card. For reading, I must admit I did comprimise since I have 2 laptops - one with an integral 7 in 1 reader - this one (the dell 1705) doesn't have a CF or a PCMCIA so I got the USB $9.50 fry's special reader. It works fine - and equally fast to my laptop with the builtin (alienware).
This will be my PRIMARY CF card - I have a couple 1 GB cards for other camera backs, but the Extreme III is just so fast the camera flys. A note of caution - NONE of this is of value unless your CAMERA supports high speed writes (and preferably reads). High speed means different things to different people. We are talking about 20 MB/s (Yea - megaBYTES) or 133 x (133 X 150 Kbps). Without these write abilities in your camera, the card will work, but your money may be better spent unles an upgrade is in your future.
Enjoy digital. Be thankful searching for a lab to process those sealed rolls of film is gone now.
 great speed, but not reliable December 7, 2006
A. Jobin (USA)
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
This card has the best rated speed for the Olympus E500, and the performance was great for about 5 months. In that last couple weeks, however, it has failed twice. The first time was when trying to transfer photos to the computer, and the computer could not recognize the card. After my husband reformatted it (and losing pictures in the process), it was working fine. The second time was fortunately while practicing with a new filter. It gave a "card error" message. At this point, I'll contact SanDisk. I will update here with the results.
Customer service update:
SanDisk was good about replacing this. They were a little resistant initially and required I perform some tests to prove to them that it was failing, but after I jumped through their hoops, they provided me with a UPS number, I took it into UPS for shipping to their technicians, who promptly had me sent a new one.
Update Sept 2007:
If possible, I would now upgrade my rating from 3 to 4 stars. The new card has been in use for 9 months with no problems. So, I would purchase this again, especially for an Olympus Evolt. I would just take lots of practice pictures with the card before relying on it for anything important.
Update Nov 2008:
The replacement card has worked without fail.
 Fast CF card with a little piece of mind included July 1, 2006
Carlo Malana (Texas, USA)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
The Extreme III CF cards from Sandisk claim to be able to take on extreme temperature conditions, along with fast performance. These latest edition work as advertised. We have several 2GB versions (which are a little faster) which also have worked flawlessly for us. The cards are a little more expensive than other brands, but we think it's worth it for the performance and the little extras (like RescuePro data recovery software). We have to feel confident in the flash cards we use.
UPDATE: We've also used 8GB and 12GB versions of this card to date.
 Avoid the seller 'Cambridgeworld' !!!! July 17, 2007
S. Koh
15 out of 32 found this review helpful
I ordered three of this item. They sent all fake ones. The cards do not have serial number anywhere and they are not working. I formatted them and did everything but still not working. The enclosed CD also does not have serial number. I talked to SANDISK costomer service. I sent photo of this cards and boxes. SANDISK sent a letter confirmed that these cards are not authentic.
Hey Cambridgeworld, Stop ripping off customers!!!
How Rude Can Adorama be? December 21, 2006
GUESS (In the world)
13 out of 44 found this review helpful
Very ! ! ! Got my new card and it didn't work so had to send it back. So upon calling Adorama every person I talked to was rude, short, and not helpful. They did send me out a new one hopefully it will work. I do know one thing I will never ever buy from Adorama again. BEWARE rude people and lousy customer service at Adorama. I will return to tell you more on how my new card is working for me.
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