SanDisk 16GB 60MB/s Extreme Compact Flash Card SDCFX-016G-A61 (US Retail Package)
SanDisk 16GB 60MB/s Extreme Compact Flash Card SDCFX-016G-A61 (US Retail Package)
Get exactly the shots you want with professional-grade SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash cards. With fast read/write speeds, you’ll see it takes more than a great digital SLR camera to bring your ideas to life. And with 16GB of space, you’ll have room to capture it all in RAW+JPEG, and save the editing for later.SanDisk engineered its Power Core Controller to take whatever your camera’s buffer can dish out. By distributing image data across the card more rapidly and efficiently, this card delivers professional performance.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Perfect for my 5D mark II
No complaint for this high quality CF card. Very satisfied. In the past, I used Kingston 4GB 133X but I was unable to do full-HD video due to the speed (mycamera can process HD-video for only about 5 secs then stop due to the fact - it cannot write the data in buffer memory to the CF card). That’s the reason for me to purchase this expensive and speedy CF Card.
Build quality of this card is high, very solid with strong & good feeling on hand. Transfer rate was exceptional if i transfer directly from camera to PCs via USB 2.0 cable (around 15-20Mb/sec). I don’t have a “fast enough” CF card reader to work with this CF Card but i will try to find one(that’s why currently i do direct transfer between camera & PCs. It will save you a lot of minutes). For 16Gb of data of image, it will take me approx 33 minutes for the old Kingston 133x CF Card to transfer to the PC - while this one takes about 3-4 minutes.
5 Stars Best SanDisk I’ve Used So far
I started in 2005 with the Ultra II series and have continually sold & upgraded as my needs dictated. I’m now using a Canon 5D Mark II which has HD video (I think we all know that by now), but the camera also creates a 30mb RAW file every time I snap the shutter. So, write speed is very important. I WAS using the Extreme IV series cards (45mb/sec), and even with the slower 4fps in the 5D2, the camera would hang after a few shots to write the data. Now with these new 16gb Extreme cards I get to hold down the shutter button and record WAY more images before the buffer starts to hold things up. What an improvement! This new series is worth every dollar. Remember, faster cards also give you longer battery life since the data writes faster, so that’s another plus to these new Extreme cards. They are UDMA level 5 which is nice (the 5D2 handles up to 6). BTW, UDMA simply means that the card does a lot of the file processing, which gets you faster write speed. Non-UDMA cards make the camera do all the work when writing images to the card. If you have a UDMA-enabled camera, by all means get UDMA-enabled cards.
One last thing to help clear confusion on the card naming format: the 133X and 300X and all that simply means the speed that the card can write data. SanDisk doesn’t use that prominently in their marketing, they tend to say “30mb/sec” or “60mb/sec”, like that. Lexar uses the ###X format all the time. So when shopping around, keep this in mind:
SanDisk Ultra II: 15mb/sec - Lexar calls it 133X (this older model is NON-UDMA)
SanDisk Extreme IV: 45mb/sec - Lexar calls it 300X
SanDisk’s New Extreme: 60mb/sec - Lexar will call it 400X
SanDisk’s New Extreme Pro: 90mb/sec - Lexar will call it 600X
Hope that helps understand all of this!
UPDATE (12-29-2009): I also wanted to mention that I’ve owned nearly 15 SanDisk CF cards since 2005 and I have never had ONE fail on me. I learned a trick from a pro: after you COPY (not MOVE) your images onto your PC, always format the card IN-CAMERA before you shoot again. Don’t use Windows to delete your images off the card. The CF cards get grumpy for some reason (no matter what brand you use). I’ve shot 20,000 images on four different camera bodies, and never one card failure in four years.
5 Stars Great Card
this is a very fast card. I’m a fan of sports photography and this card handles the job perfectly. Very reliable.
1 Stars Camera Memory Card - Product Excellent / Order Source Concerns if you order from Digital Media Source
Product definitely does the job, however, when we ordered it from Digital Media Source we had all kinds of problems. We ended up having to order item from another source that was more reliable and who understood that customers expect to get what they ordered vs getting incorrect item. In our case, we needed the card expedited and were really surprised when source shipped wrong item. They told us via email that they would pay $2.00 to cover returning the item back to them but they lied and we never obtained shipping refund until Amazon backed our purchase and helped solve the problem from their side. Thank you Amazon!!!!
5 Stars Fast and lots of space.
What else needs to be said? This card is fast and holds tons of pictures. I’ve been using this with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR, and it makes a huge difference over the older, slower CF that we had been using.
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