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I was shopping for a 4 GB compact flash card & had the chance to buy this card during Amazon "gold box" special deal. (The "list" was $81; the actual cost was half that; I see today that it is for sale for $63). There were no reviews, so I almost hesitated, but it had good specs. (133X; 20MB/sec sustained read/write).
It arrived today & I loaded into camera (Nikon D200) and starting firing off "bursts" for a few seconds-- it could keep up easily. (I don't usually shoot this way, so I wouldn't know what it would do if it couldn't keep up?) Anyway, it captured all the images i shot and later transfered all images w/o problem via card reader to PC. I then formatted CF in camera and repeated the burst (5 frames) again, no problem.

All in all, it seems to be a fine product. IF a problem develops in the near future, I'll try to remember to come update, here. Meanwhile, it comes w/ a lifetime warranty. ALso, it shipped w/ a National geographic "wildlife photography video, that was pretty cool, too.

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I use this in my Digital SLR and absolutely love it! It is definitely fast and I have had nothing but excellent performance from all PNY products. If you are serious about photography and understand the importance of high-speed memory cards than you know that this is an absolutely awesome memory card!

There are a lot of compact flash cards and there isn't much that differentiates them. What I'm looking for is a card that works (quickly) and gives good value. This card qualifies.

I've done a shoot of about 350 images (figure skating) in a Canon 400D (Rebel XTi, 10.1MP), first formatting the card in the camera. The images were captured in high-quality low-compression JPG format averaging about 3.5MB. The card was never behind the camera,even when doing long stretches of continuous-mode shooting.

I then downloaded the images using an el-cheapo 15-in-1 USB2 card reader under Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu reports the card as 1.9G total size with the photos taking 1.3G leaving 640M free. The download took about 45 seconds total: I like that!

I don't know about long-term performance yet since I've only had the card for a week.

The card is from China and comes in pretty high-quality packaging and it has a metal top-surface. They give you a card redeemable for 10 national geographic images from their web site.

If your camera can shoot 3 or more frames per second, you need a high-speed card. I am happy with this one, although I just noticed that PNY makes another card that is even faster: 266x--that's up to 40 MB/s.

This card is 133x, meaning up to 20 MB/s and so far it works well. I can shoot 10 MB RAW files continuously for quite some time and this card keeps up.

I'll probably edit this review in a few days when I receive my card reader. Uploading from camera to laptop via USB moves about 10 MB/s.

I suspect this card will work even faster through a card reader. However, even via USB, if you shoot all day and come home with 300 RAW files, you'll upload for only five minutes. That's not too bad for a card in this price range.

I use this with my Olympus E300 and it works really well. It writes really well while shooting but is slow when downloading to my comp. (400 pics about 15 mins) but that is using just a usb cord. I would buy it again! Leave a comment if you would like to know more :)