Wow, a fucking pissing contest here!!!

You might shop on EBay also.

Working in the industry, I must agree with TSD. Some people will sacrifice good judgement for low price.
Robespier, some people eat at McD's, drive Buicks, and buy cheap brands of electronics.

DSM, if you took that many pictures on one trip, you should pick up an image tank so you can offload your cards to it. When you get home, you hook it up to your computer and transfer all the files to it. Somewhere I have a link to a grid comparing all the latest image tanks. I'll try to find it for you.

Robespierre, why don't you think photographers have the right credentials for evaluating flash memory? Just curious. Photographers need fast, reliable memory for their cameras.

For those looking for that really, really great bargain.

There are a large number of companies selling memory.

There are a very small number of companies that make it.

Those who are willing to pay the most go in and perform their tests on speed and memory errors.

The ones that pass the tests the best are taken.

Then the company willing to pay the next highest amount goes in and performs their tests on what's left.

And so on down the line.

Does this mean the lower end won't work. No.

What it does mean is that there is more chance of problems with the deeper discounted equipment.

"Robespier[re], some people eat at McD's, drive Buicks, and buy cheap brands of electronics."

And some buy aggressively marketed brands, whether they're superior or not. Like Sony.

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Sunny, will this image tank work with my 'dinosaur' of a computer??? I am having a heck of a time getting my camera's software to cooperate. I also can't open up my pictures most of the time either even if I am not using the software.

I have windows 98. The reason I have it is because my friend gave it to me. Because when she got her digital camera, it drove her nuts.

Thanks for posting these. I hate shopping but it sounds like some good deals.

I'm wondering myself now about quality before I buy any thing else. Shooting RAW format eats up cards faster than I can download them.

Out of curiosity, anyone got a source for MTBF comparisons on any of these memory brands? Compact Flash specifically, not PC components. So far I've built a lot of PCs with Kingston (for whatever that says about their other products) and have SanDisk CF. Hate the thought of losing shots though if I didn't have to.

Myer, that's the smartest thing anyone has said here since the 19th.

Bottom line is that there are two primary companies in the CF and SD card business = Lexar and SanDisk. Same with DSLR, SLR, and digital cameras = Nikon and Canon. Nikon is known in the camera and semiconductor industry for their superior glass and coatings.

I wouldn't buy anything else from any other than the 4 companies named above.

The money saved on inexpensive memory cards would be valued at $0.00 that one time the memory card fails and loses your photos.

&quot;Nikon is known in the camera and semiconductor industry for their superior glass and coatings.&quot;

Excuse me, but you can be known in the camera industry for optics. But you have to be known in the semiconductor industry for your innovation, process technology, yield, reliability, and sales.

Kingston has been doing memories since 1987. They did $2.4 billion in 2004. You don't put together a track record like that by peddling junk. And they accomplished that that by operating more efficiently than their competitors, thereby underselling them.

SanDisk has been around since 1988, but their sales last year trailed Kingston by $600 million, or about 25% less.

Lexar, founded ten years after Kingston, was did $1.5 billion, or 62%.

I invite anyone who thinks Lexar or SanDisk makes a better product than Kingston to back up the assertion with facts rather than a gratuitous opinion of what constitutes an intelligent utterance.

<b>256mb SD RAM $3.94</b> after rebate.

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Until July 31, 2005

(I don't know this brand, so I wouldn't use it for anything but files that can be replaced.)