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Works just fine in my Canon S45. Canon will tell you 2GB is the max for this camera (I think it formats cards FAT16), but this Kingston card seems to have come already formatted in FAT32. I just shot over 2GB of material, so the camera doesn't seem to have any problems with large FAT32 cards--so long as they're already formatted that way.

Bought this card for my new Canon 40D, took it to Italy, and after a few days of shooting and unloading to back up the pictures, we started to get messages that the card was full (but it wasn't), then it started to zap portions of the existing pics. Later the card failed, saying it was unformatted and it needed to be formatted, which of course meant my pictures for the day were gone. After reformatting it, it failed again about 30 pics later, then failed again after about 10 pics. We gave up, bought an overpriced replacement card at a camera shop, and had zero problems for the remainder of the trip, so it wasn't the camera. Unfortunately we lost about 150 pics in the process of trying to figure out what was going on.

in my NIKON D300, it worked for 3 month. now it can't be read, it can't be formated

Very slow write speed compared with the 133X Transcend, When taking pictures I have to wait an eternity (it apears so) to show the images to the client.

I was extremely disappointed by the write speed of this CF card. Using it to shoot JPEG+RAW photos with a Canon EOS XTi (shooting 10 MP images: about 2-3 MB for a JPEG, about 10-12 MB for a RAW image) was painfully slow, and a quick timed test confirmed what I had experienced: I shot 5 JPEG+RAW images in quick succession, and it took 39 seconds from first shutter press until the CF busy light went out. For comparison, a Sandisk 4GB ULTRA II Compact Flash (SDCFH-4096, Bulk Package), which is rated at 15 MB/s (5 MB/s slower than this card) took 15 seconds in the same test.

I definitely recommend against this card, unless you're mostly using it as a read device, or are writing small amounts of data over time. The price is quite attractive, but the write speed is a clear limitation for larger-format digital photography.