Kingston 1 GB Secure Digital Flash Card ( SD/1GB ) (Retail Package) by Kingston H. Corporation
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Digital camera reviews of Kingston 1 GB Secure Digital Flash Card ( SD/1GB ) (Retail Package)
Digital camera Review: Excellent Product for the Price
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great product at a great affordable price thanks again to Amazon.com! Plug in and use its that simple. A+Digital camera Review: Excellent deal
Summary: 5 Stars
An inexpensive and reliable way to save all your important files and documents...I use this mostly for my digital camera and, depending on the quality of picture I save, this little card can hold between 600 to over 1,000 pictures at a time. I never have to worry about running out of space while taking pictures on vacation. It is also useful to save or transfer files from your computer.Digital camera Review: Excellent memory card
Summary: 5 Stars
This products is perfect, it does exactly what it is expected to do, every time. At $10 it is a great value. Be mindful, if you take a lot of big (i.e. 8MP +) this is not a great fit for you, think 2MB or more, but overall this is a solid product.Digital camera Review: Excellent price/performance for basic storage.
Summary: 5 Stars
While it's not one of the newer-better-faster models of SD, if you're looking to store data, use it in an MP3 player, etc. You simply can't beat the price-to-performance ratio on this little guy.
It works perfectly on my new SD-based MP3 player for skip-free performance. Transfer time was negligible (don't get me wrong it took a few minutes to transfer 1 GB of data, but not more than I'd expect for a 1GB {!} transfer; maybe 8-12 minutes? Probably less...)
Took me a while to figure out that if you format it as FAT the player only sees 512MB of space. Whereas if you format it FAT32 it sees 1GB, and uses a few MB for formatting purposes, giving somewhere around 982 MB free. More than enough for hours and hours of MP3 play time.
I'd assume this card would work well in basic cameras up to 2-3 megapixels. For higher megapixels you'll probably want to step up to a slightly faster card. But keep it Kingston. They make good products at excellent price points.
I've used their desktop valueram for a while without issue, and their SD cards are certainly no disappointment. I rate this a must-buy. Aside from which it's the only card I've seen no really negative reviews for from any source I've checked online (unlike some other "name brands" like SanDisk, Lexar, etc.), hence purchasing this one. Seriously shop it around and go to a few comparison sites that use ratings and reviews. The Kingston cards consistently get good reviews (or at least lack bad reviews), whereas the other brands are about 50/50, 60/40, etc.
Addendum:
with a couple months' perspective: again, the card holds up well. I purchased the basic low-speed model due to price (appx $27/ea at the time). Works perfectly in my MP3 player, with the above formatting/space caveats. However, they've since dropped the price on the basic model to about $21/ea. At this price, for basic uses, I can see no reason why anyone would NOT buy this indispensable piece of peripheral equipment for cameras/MP3 players. I'm actually tempted to buy a few more for other purposes... The price for a 50x 1GB Kingston is now about $24, well worth it for newer faster digital cameras able to utilize the faster speed memory (though you may not see any increase on older cameras). Not sure what the 133x 1GB cards run, I'd guess not much more than about $35-40/ea, which would be reasonable. I'm just going to wager a guess you'll even get better $$/performace ratio out of two of the 50x 1GB Kingston cards than you'd get uot of one of the 50x 2GB cards, if you don't mind carrying 2 cards. And it might also increase compatibility slightly, since I don't know how many cameras support the larger cards yet?
Again I reiterate the basic model is good for uses where speed doesn't matter like memory cards for MP3 players that are just reading the data off a little bit at a time. But, if you need faster speeds for newer cameras using rapid shutter speeds or real-time video, you'll probably want to step up to the 50x or 133x version for a couple extra dollars, if the camera supports it. Or even step up to the 2GB cards if you're using 4-6+ megapixel resolution photo settings on a regular basis.
Digital camera Review: Excellent product and value
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an Excellent product ! It works great, and a super value for the price.