Customer Reviews

PNY 128 MB CompactFlash Flash Memory Card

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I bought a card with my camera in January 2003 and loved how many photos I could take. However every now and then, some photos would come out as a corrupted image and I often had difficulties downloading images to my computer. The biggest disappointment occured when at the END of a girls night out weekend in Vegas, the card died altogether, stating a CF Card Error, with a lot of great shots and movie clips...gone. Thanks for a renewed skepticism of digital recording.

I bought a 128 PNY CF memory card for my Minolta 404 almost two years ago, made thousands of pictures and down load many times. Never have problems. It was kind slow when I made fine quality (TIFF) pictures.

My girlfriend's Canon S230 Powershot camera uses the 128mb PNY flashcard. Recently we started getting errors. The memory gets corrupted and we lose pictures--lots! It also becomes a problem to download the remaining pictures as we are forced to download them one at a time. Customer Service at Best Buy said that they have seen a lot of problems like this with PNY flash cards. When I called PNY customer service for a replacement they said that this happens with memory cards after a while and that I should just keep reformatting the card. Now every time I take pictures I wonder which ones I'm going to lose. Try a different manufacturer.

I purchased 2 PNY 128MB compact flash on 11/27/02. One so far is working fine, the other one however is not. I can take pictures with my digital camera, and only about half of them turn out. I am also unable to down load them to my computer. I have tried for 3 days to contact PNY, I have left 2 messages, and still no return call. My problem is not only with the product, but also with the customer service. Unless I hear from them soon, I will cut my losses and buy another brand.

I bought a 128MB PNY flash memory card for my Cannon Digital Elf while on a weekend trip in Chicago. When I returned home to download the pictures, a few were corrupted giving the CF card error message. I figured it was a fluke and reformatted the card. Took the camera to Cancun and took about 10-20 pictures a day with a failure rate of about 25%. Went skiing a few weeks later and took about 80 pictures of which about 40 were unretrievable. I repeat, if you want to keep your memories choose a different memory card.

I bought this card for my Nikon Coolpix 2100 and about 50% of the time I get "this card cannot be used." The seller told me something was wrong with the camera and gave me a new one that did the same thing. I have also had similar (though not as bad) problems with the 64mb CF card, too. I will never buy a PNY CF card again. I have no problems with the Kodak 64.

This card was recommended by a sales person for a Nikon Coolpix 3100 digital camera. As a trusting fool, I bought this card at the same time as the camera and went on a trip to Yellowstone. After the first day and on a random basis, the camera would not recognize the card. Repeated power cycling of the camera would finally bring the card back to life for a short while then the card would fail again. This problem did not occur with the card that originally came with the camera. I had to make a 165 mile round trip to the nearest large town to buy a Lexar card which is recommended by Nikon. The problem did not occur with the new Lexar card. Fortunately, I was able to recover the pictures on the PNY card.

I haven't had the reliability problems spoken of here when used in my Canon A70. However, I have had compatibility problems when trying to download using a third party USB 2.0 card reader. This is the only brand of compact flash that was incompatible out of four others I tried. I was forced to download directly from the camera at USB 1.1 speed.
Also, this thing has a write speed at least half as fast as other CF cards available (except for Sandisk). It slowed photo operations significantly.

Two problems: first the card did not work in our brand new digital Nikon camera while we were on vacation. Second, tech support/help line was an endless loop of recorded nonsense--never again do we want to spend precious vacation time listening to "Press 1 for...." Do not buy this product.

The only problems I have had with this card are- my wife keeps filling it up and then nags me to download the pictures onto our computer. With the settings on my camera at- Image Size 1024 X 768 and Image Quality normal (the quality options on various cameras are probably different- but normal on my camera is the middle option), I am able to fit over 300 pictures on the PNY CompactFlash 128MB card. These settings give us the best combination of quality and amount of pictures that will fit on the card; based on our usage- which is primarily candid pictures of our 1yr old twins. This is the memory card that came with the camera; I plan on upgrading to a 1GB card fairly soon. Not because of problems with this card- because I am getting sick of having to download and clear out the card so frequently. A 1GB card is not really that expensive and then my wife can pack about 1300- 1400 hundred pictures into the camera before bugging me (which should only take her about 2-3 months; our kids should be able to relive their entire childhood with the 50,000 pictures they will have burned on a disc when they get older). Also a Scandisc Ultra CompactFlash card has much, much faster read and write times; which will produce better pictures.