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Rating:  - 128 MB Viking Compact Flash Card and the Nikon D100
I'm a happy owner of Nikon's new addition in the advanced amateur/professional Digital Camera market - the D100. The camera received tremendous pre-release publicity and I can say from first hand knowledge that the praise is justified. However the D100 doesn't arrive with any means of image storage. So I ran down to the closest electronics store and purchaged a 128 MB CF Memory card for about ($). The card was rated as "4X" speed. It worked great with no complaints. However last week I searched Amazon.com and found a very high quality Viking 128 MB Compact Flash card at ($) and free shipping! The Viking is a much higher quality card that the one previously purchased and ($) less money and no shipping cost! A real bargain in my book! Are you an eBay shopper? Then you know that the Viking card is selling for more on eBay than Amazon's price!
Rating: - good solid card/brand
I have a 2 megapixel canon elph and own two other CF cards, (Sandisk 64mb and Fuji64mb) Reason I got another CF card was the price as of Feb 2003, was the lowest I've seen ever, and I did abit more research than before. check dpreview.com they have a section of CF card ratings and this particular card did very good, as far as speed and reliability. I did my own amateur testing and noticed "slight" differences, the Viking and Sandisk cards were abit faster in taking multiple shots. (but this is a matter of miliseconds) reliability, I have had the two other cards for about 6 months and have not had a problem with data loss of any kind. On my 2 megapixel camera, the Viking 128mb CF card shot about 360-400 images "high quality" (depending on image size, each image can be a different file size, depending on the information each one requires) So, I would just stick with a big name like Viking or Sandisk and you really cant go wrong.
Rating:  - Viking Makes a Quality Compact Flash Product
Since getting a 128 MB Compact Flash card by Viking to use with a 3.3 megapixel Canon G 1 digital camera this past June, my whole family has been pleased with the quality of the card and the fairly rapid data transfer from the card to our PowerBook computers. So far, so good. The warranty on the card is for five years per the website. We use a different mfgr's PCMCIA device to hold the card for data transfer and it is so easy to use. We just hope the card continues to work as easily in the future (5 years down the line) as it does now with no data loss. (We prefer equipment that uses compact flash to smart media technology as compact flash cards hold so much more in less space).A recent afternoon of picture taking (about 33 shots) by part of our household (outdoor waterfall and state park panorama photography, but without the wide angle lens) at highest resolution only filled up half the card, so we were pleased. If they had brought the wide angle lens, they still could have gotten all the shots. The card is comparable in speed to another card made by the originator of compact flash technology (SD), but not the fastest speed on the market, yet good enough for us (we are talking mere seconds for data transfer with that PCMCIA device!). We've found that if you take pictures for fun and are a serious hobbyist, but not a pro, a good size card is 96 to 128 MB--so this 128 MB card is a handy size to have (pros need a bigger card of at least 256 MB due to non-stop shooting). We carry a couple of 96 or 128 cards and can then take enough pictures on each card without having to change cards per se while shooting a lot of pictures at one location. ...
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