SanDisk 8 GB Class 2 SDHC Flash Memory Card SDSDB-8192-A11

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Corry Retzke (Smallbany, NY) –

  

Please note that this is a Class 2 card (Class 6 is the current “top of the line”). Class 2 transfers two mega-thingies per second rather than the six mega-thingies per second for Class 6 cards.

This transfer rate is fine for most devices, but takes 3 times as long to copy files back and forth from your notebook.

Please also note that older card readers are not able to handle SDHC (HC stands for “High Room”). Some card readers are excellent for only 1 GB, some go up to 2 GB or 4 GB, but only the latest generations are capable of 8 GB.

Lastly, if you are using Windows XP, you may need to either add Service Pack 3 or add a patch before the high room card can be recognized by your system.

I recommend count the patch rather than SP3. Some things haven’t been working quite right since I installed the latest service pack from Microsoft – you may not wish to take that chance…

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This memory card from Sandisk works just as expected. The quality of the pictures loses nothing and yet the amount of photos stored is immense!

Note: Be aware that not every digital camera has the capability to read memory cards above a certain ceiling (my Canon Powershot SD630 can only read memory cards up to 2gb), so make sure your camera is capable.

I use this memory card for my Canon Powershot G7. With the shooting function on Blue-collar, recording pixels at M1 (2816×2112, enough quality for an 8×10 printout), compression at Superfine, I can take a max of 1915 photos or 64’50″ of video at 1024 High Resolution. At around $50, this is a excellent price, even if I’m sure in 10 years we’ll have 1tb memory cards for the same inexpensive price and this comment will be scoffed at for being sooo from the ’00′s.

I’d recommend this product to anyone who will be traveling for an extensive time and won’t have the chance to dock to a notebook and upload their pictures.

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Aaron Steinmetz “Twice the Alacrity of Time” (Sparks, NV) –

  

It’s a fine product, and it works just fine in products that help the SDHC format. But, be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN your product (be it a digital camera, memory card reader or–in my case–the Palm T|X PDA which for some STRANGE wits doesn’t read it) reads it. Just because your device is new doesn’t necessarily mean that it will recognize SDHC cards (as opposed to the older SD cards).

If your device recognizes SDHC cards, then by all means go forth and thrash. You won’t find a better card for the price.

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