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Flash Memory cards
Anyone got any good or bad experiences with the various flash memory cards. The type used for digital cameras, PDA and whatever?
For me I have been using CompactFlash since August of 2003 when I purchased a Veo Capture 1300 that used it. At the time I purchased the camera I also brought a PNY 32Mbyte CompactFlash card.
Since then I picked up other cameras which are the Argus DC3200, the SiPix SC3300 and the Aiptek DV3100 and all three of them use CompactFlash to store the images.
And I got at least 15 cards ranging from 32MBytes to 512Mbytes from various brands which include PNY, SanDisk, Lexar and Memorex. For the most part I have been happy with what I got but I do have a couple of horror stories that related to the card itself verus the camera.
Case in point was the second card that I purchased a few weeks later which was a Memorex 32Mbyte card. When I used the PNY 32MByte in the Veo Capture 1300 I was having problems with the camera accepting the card, after a couple of times turning the camera off and on, it finally accepted the card and I could take pictures. When I used the Memorex 32Mbyte card it took longer for the camera to accept the card. Of course I didn't tell this to anyone so I accept it as a fact of life with the camera.
A month or two goes by and whenever CompUSA had specials on CompactFlash cards I would buy them. I purchased a PNY 64Mbyte and then later a PNY 128Mbyte card. The Veo Capture 1300 camera accepted these cards with no problem, so I just kept the 32Mbyte cards as just in case.
When I brought the Argus DC3200 around December, without thinking I used the Memorex 32Mbyte card on that camera and the camera accepted the card with no problem. Never needed to cycle the power. So I take some test pictures and I got really crappy shots. The URL below shows an example of this:
http://www.hawaiistories.com/gallery/album15/Cnxt0024
My first reaction was that I was using the camera improperly. So I took more test shots. Some of them came out okay at first but after awhile it turns out badly again. So I took more test shots that resulted with still crappy images.
Because the Argus DC3200 was kind of a cheap camera and the fact that it wasn't moving that much at CompUSA lead me to believe that this camera was really junk, but after talking to a co-worker who purchased the same camera that the real problem was not the camera but maybe the CompactFlash card I was using.
So trying one of the PNY cards on the Argus DC3200 solved the image capture problem and my outlook on the Argus also changed as well. So much so that when the price dropped to $40 I picked up a second camera (if it ever dropped to $25, I try to horde some from CompUSA).
For me I have been using CompactFlash since August of 2003 when I purchased a Veo Capture 1300 that used it. At the time I purchased the camera I also brought a PNY 32Mbyte CompactFlash card.
Since then I picked up other cameras which are the Argus DC3200, the SiPix SC3300 and the Aiptek DV3100 and all three of them use CompactFlash to store the images.
And I got at least 15 cards ranging from 32MBytes to 512Mbytes from various brands which include PNY, SanDisk, Lexar and Memorex. For the most part I have been happy with what I got but I do have a couple of horror stories that related to the card itself verus the camera.
Case in point was the second card that I purchased a few weeks later which was a Memorex 32Mbyte card. When I used the PNY 32MByte in the Veo Capture 1300 I was having problems with the camera accepting the card, after a couple of times turning the camera off and on, it finally accepted the card and I could take pictures. When I used the Memorex 32Mbyte card it took longer for the camera to accept the card. Of course I didn't tell this to anyone so I accept it as a fact of life with the camera.
A month or two goes by and whenever CompUSA had specials on CompactFlash cards I would buy them. I purchased a PNY 64Mbyte and then later a PNY 128Mbyte card. The Veo Capture 1300 camera accepted these cards with no problem, so I just kept the 32Mbyte cards as just in case.
When I brought the Argus DC3200 around December, without thinking I used the Memorex 32Mbyte card on that camera and the camera accepted the card with no problem. Never needed to cycle the power. So I take some test pictures and I got really crappy shots. The URL below shows an example of this:
http://www.hawaiistories.com/gallery/album15/Cnxt0024
My first reaction was that I was using the camera improperly. So I took more test shots. Some of them came out okay at first but after awhile it turns out badly again. So I took more test shots that resulted with still crappy images.
Because the Argus DC3200 was kind of a cheap camera and the fact that it wasn't moving that much at CompUSA lead me to believe that this camera was really junk, but after talking to a co-worker who purchased the same camera that the real problem was not the camera but maybe the CompactFlash card I was using.
So trying one of the PNY cards on the Argus DC3200 solved the image capture problem and my outlook on the Argus also changed as well. So much so that when the price dropped to $40 I picked up a second camera (if it ever dropped to $25, I try to horde some from CompUSA).
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