Lexar 80X Premium Compact Flash 8192 MB

Advantages: this is a fast memory card and all deleted data can be recovered
Disadvantages: can be expansive

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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Price, Capacity
Disadvantages: Reliability, Speed

...The massive success of digital cameras has driven demand for bigger and better portable storage formats and Compact Flash is just one of a number of portable, removable digital storage media available. While it is undoubtedly compact, it is certainly not the smallest format available, XD, SD and SmartMedia are all physically smaller devices. It's at this point that it's worth mentioning that there are two types of Compact Flash named, imaginatively, Type I and Type II. The only real difference is in their thickness, with Type I cards measuring 3.3mm thick and type II cards measuring 4mm. What this means is that a Type I card will work in a Type II compatible deice, but not the other way round, simply because a Type II card will not physically fit in a Type I slot. The big benefit of Compact Flash is not the physical size, it... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Tiny, Large capacity
Disadvantages: Easy to lose, more expensive than other formats

...this, and results may vary from camera to camera, from my finding have found that it should be around 3Mb per second. This shouldn't hold you up to much, even on high megapixel cameras. Read speed is around 5Mb per second. This is signifigantly slower than for instance a Lexar 80x Compact Flash, but do we really need it to be this fast? Although other XD brands area available, such as Sandisk, Fuji and Kodak - the Olympus xD-Picture Cards are the only ones that enable the Panorama function on Olympus digital cameras, allowing up to 10 images to be stitched together to create incredible vistas! Although I've not been able to try this feature (due to having a Fuji camera), this sounds like fun. The 512Mb Olympus card I have comes with a 2 year warranty. I'd expect a 5 year warranty really, although have no reason to believe that the card... Read review

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