Kingston 4 GB CompactFlash Memory Card CF/4GB

by Kingston

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 0.8 x 5.5 inches ; 0.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000T9251O
• Item model number: CF/4GB
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #22 in Electronics > Camera & Photo > Accessories > Digital Camera Accessories > Memory Cards > CompactFlash Cards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Kingston's standard 4 GB CompactFlash is for everyday use of digital cameras, PDAs, and MP3 players. This standard card is the perfect solution for additional storage on such devices. One of the world's most popular digital mass-storage devices, CompactFlash memory cards from Kingston bridge the gap between storage requirements and affordability.

Users of digital cameras, PDAs, and other digital devices can quickly and easily download or transfer digital files between various digital devices and the Internet, using a card that easily fits in the palm of the hand. With the speed of a memory chip and better portability than a floppy, this Kingston CompactFlash memory card offers better storage than many other media cards. It holds 4 GB and is backed by a limited lifetime warranty.

Product Description

4GB CompactFlash Card 

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

63 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY!! Pay the extra bucks for Sandisk!, February 4, 2010

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Brian Tran "Mirrorthrone" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kingston 4 GB CompactFlash Memory Card CF/4GB (Personal Computers)

Oh my freaking Bagel-making Goddess, I would not recommend this product to my worst enemy! If you are reading this, I was just like you at one time: Hoping to save a couple bucks and get a nice sized flash card for cheap. I ordered two of these craps; one for me and one for my girlfriend to use in our photography class. After I excitedly tore open the package and thrusted it into our Canon Rebel, I painfully found out that you really do get what you paid for.

We had just taken about 20 photos of us messing around outside, when I received the fateful error message notifying me of a "CF Error". At first I thought it was just because I forgot to format it correctly or something. I then formatted it through the camera and proceeded cautiously. Everything was working fine, so I started taking more photos of us. It wasn't long before I got the error message again. I was getting really worried and a little pissed. Our class project shoot was coming up and so was our anniversary. I wanted to be able to depend on this card to at least get us through that before returning it. I thought to myself, maybe I was doing something wrong. I was previewing pretty quickly after each shot. Maybe that was the cause of the problem . Oh how wrong I was.

I went home and tried to figure out what the problem was. I mean, there were some good reviews of this card. Some people got it to work. Why can't I? I tried everything. Shooting in bursts then previewing it, turning it off while it was transferring to the card, etc. The only time it got the error was when I previewed it too early. So I thought that was the problem. We went out for our anniversary and since the card hadn't given us any problems since I stopped previewing each shot, I thought it would be ok. I was still paranoid though and backed it up at home right after our date. It made it through the whole day without an error. And so we felt a little easier about our shoot the next day. I just about finished shooting 80 pics and was right about to back it up, when I got the soul-crushing, baby-punch-rage-filling message "CF ERROR".

It was a good thing my girlfriend took it away from me before I physically broke and destroyed it. And so here I am, a mere 6 hours from the incident writing this lengthy review. I have never written a review for anything before this, but I wanted to make sure that whosoever decides to read this be educated on the terrors of this product. If I had read a detailed sob-story such as this, I would have never ordered this danged wicked shedevil. So please, if you're smart you would either buy a high-quality card from Amazon.com or go to wal-mart (I hate walmart too..) and buy a 4gb Sandisk (30mb/sec!!!) for only a few bucks more.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kingston 4GB cf memory card, October 26, 2009

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B. Mock (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kingston 4 GB CompactFlash Memory Card CF/4GB (Personal Computers)

I own 4 of these 4 GB memory cards for 2 of my trail cams. I swap the ones I've taken home and saved the wanted images on my computer for the ones that have new data in the cameras. They all have performed well to store images and/or video. My oldest set is about a year old and I've recently purchased a newer set.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kingston is awesome!!, February 27, 2010

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Ruth - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Kingston 4 GB CompactFlash Memory Card CF/4GB (Personal Computers)

When I purchased these CF Cards on Amazon it was the first time I've bought a Kingston product. Before I was using SanDisk which worked great, but these were on sale and the reviews were good so I thought, let's try Kingston. Well I got them and it turned out they weren't compatible with my camera (Canon EOS 20D), even though they should have been. For some reason, every time I got to about 50 photos my camera would malfunction and I'd have to format the card and lose all the pictures I'd taken. I was really disappointed but I contacted Kingston, since the cards had a warranty on them, and they were really friendly and said that it might just be the controller the disks were made with and the cards *should* be compatible with my camera. They replaced all the disks with ones made from a different controller and even paid for shipping. The replacements work great and I was really happy with their customer service! Kingston will go out of their way to take care of you and I'll definitely be buying from them again in the future!!