Customer Reviews

Kingston 1024 MB CompactFlash Card (CF/1GB, Retail Package)

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What can you say about memory? Well it works and my camera seems to like it. Using it in a Canon 10D. My camera will take bursts of photos and the card gets written to properly and quickly. I haven't measured the time. I realize this isnt an 80x card or whatever, but I don't have an 80x camera, so it suits me fine. I have used it at sporting events and haven't missed a shot because of the card being written to, so I think it does as it should. I have several other Kingston cards, starting all the way back with I think a 32mb chip, then a 256 then a 512 and now a gig chip. I think they are a good value and I have even washed one in my pants pocket, run it through a drier and it still works, not that I'm trying to promote using your memory like pocket lint, but it's good to know they are build well!

I have the Canon Rebel. I had the same problem where files were corrupted. Also, when clearing the card, some pics stayed filed. I am not happy with this flashcard at all.

I bought this card for my Canon 20D digital slr and I've been very happy with it.

I got it on sale for $59 after rebates which was an awesome price in March, 2005.

While not the fastest card around, it's been rock solid. Never had a problem. The only time I notice the lack of speed is transferring it off my camera to my PC.

I use a firewire connection, and I can unload the entire card (1gb worth of photos) in 7 minutes. Yah, I could spend a lot more money to cut that time in half, but basically I go get a cup of tea while it's unloading. Most of the time, I'm unloading only a half full card so its a 3 minute wait.

I don't notice the difference in speed while the card is in my camera and I'm taking picture. I don't, however do a lot of 5 fps shooting, nor do I use RAW format much. When I'm shooting the best quality jpegs I never notice any write time to the card because it's all being buffered by my 20D.

I'm hoping Kingston gets a 2gb card happening, on sale, for under $100 and I buy one of those.

Kingston, most underrated buy in the compact flash world, as far as I'm concerned.

I've been using this card in an EOS 20D for 6 months without a hitch. It's performed flawlessly. Although it's not a super high speed card I've never had any speed related issues at all since the 20D's internal buffer is large and fast. You can't beat the price and I have no complaints about performance.

25 Jul 2005 This card developed intermittent errors (corrupted image files) after 4 months and failed completely after 5 months of average use in a Nikon D70. I am back to using a 3-year old SanDisk card which has had a lot more use but zero problems.

09 Sep 2005 Edited - This card has a lifetime warranty so I was able to exchange the defective card for a new one from Kingston. So far the new one is working OK. At least this vendor is willing to replace their product when it is defective.

Price was nice, works great in my Fuji digital camera, delivery was super fast

Just a fair warning to all out there considering this card. After purchasing this card it worked great. Then in the middle of my friend's wedding the card no longer was readable by my camera. I could not believe it! When I got home I put the original card in the camera and it worked fine. I reformatted this card and still the camera could not read the card. Not worth the money for only one years use.

I bought this Kingston 1GB CompactFlash card for $15! Isn't Amazon just amazing? I have been using this flash memory card for a few days now, which I purchased for a digital photo frame, and it works great. Sure, there are faster cards on the market, but they are priced nowhere near $15! Some have stated that their card died within a few months, or shorly after a year, but I have a backup of all of my photos and I am willing to take the chance. This memory card is plenty fast enough for a digital photo frame, and for the money I will be extremely happy if this card lasts me for a couple of years. I will certainly edit this review if the card dies before my expectations expire, but I have high hopes that this card will last well into the future. A great product by a great manufacturer, and thanks to Amazon it is available for an amazing price. The slower speed prevents me from recommending this card for a high end, digital SLR camera, but for a photo frame, PDA, or any other device that does not require lightning speed data transfer, I think this card is a no-brainer! Thanks Amazon. =o)

It was a dark and stormy night...oh forget it. This product does not need elaborate discussion. It's plain ol' great! I didn't have any problems w/ speed or quality of photographs and it's a great value too (at least the price I got it in).

Remember when memory cars like 128MB were HUGE?

Remember when 1GB cards were really expensive?

Card works fine, no issues, no problems.

Well, except one: on an older device this card was not recognized where a 512MB had no problems. Not sure why, but didn't really matter. the old device got the small card and the new camera got the big card.