Customer Reviews

SanDisk 128 MB SmartMedia Card

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You can't go wrong with SanDisk cards! I use my memory cards under heavy heavy usage for digital imagery and audio. My cards get beaten on as they get pulled out of and pushed into many different devices. Oftentimes, I don't bother to turn off power. I've never had a single SanDisk card go bad ever! I now buy them exclusively.

My negative review is based on one experience with one card with one manufacturer. Since this was my first experience with digital photography, I am hoping I was just unlucky and that this will not prove to be a regular experience.

I purchased the Sandisk 128MB card with my Olympus 2040 camera in November and took both on a vacation to Italy. The camera worked out great, but I noticed a problem with this Sandisk card on the third photo. I knew photo #3 was lost but assumed my other photos would be okay. On my return home I tried to transfer my 240 photos to my computer, but got disk errors. I called Sandisk and the customer service rep informed me that the only way to save my photos was to send the disk to a data recovery service. I found some services on the internet, and discovered that this is a growing industry. Recovery of my photos would cost $300 - more than I am willing to pay.

I asked the Sandisk customer service rep if disk failure was a common problem. To my horror, he said yes, this happens all the time. So my advise to aspiring digital photographers is to take great care with your memory cards, test them out before important events, and always keep a backup card on hand. I have since purchased a Viking 128MB card and it has worked flawlessly. But, for the foreseeable future I will rely on my old faithful Nikon SLR as my primary way to preserve important photo memories.

What more can I say except that they work flawlessly with my Fuji 2600 camera ?

The card has never given me any problem for last 2 months. I have used it to its full capacity couple of times. And its worth its price since the 64MB also costs a similar price.

Sandisk has a 5 year warranty on the card, which I think should be sufficient given the way the memory cards have been increasing in their capacity and the increase in MP's of digicams.

If are using a Sandisk rebate offer, they do have a rebate phone line to call & inquire about your status. I haven't got mine back yet but beleive that I will. ... So you can count on the rebate offer to lower your price....

Also there have been some concerns with using a 128MB card in place of 32 or 64 makes your camera slower ? Well as far I have observed, the camera is sligthly slower when starting the review for pictures on the camera. Other than this (expected) slowness, there's none to it. The smartmedia cards of all sizes have same speeds, unlike compact flash cards.

Update : I got the rebate back from Sandisk, so you can count on it !

I recently received a Fuji Finepix F601 as a gift; the giver, a professional photographer, included a Fuji 128MB Smart Media Card as a matter of course. Thank goodness he knew what he was doing in terms of storage needs, at least -- the 601 only comes with a 16MB card, which on the 601 is only enough for 5 images at the highest recording level. If you're getting a compatible Fuji, Olympus, or other-brand camera, you really need the highest storage card possible.

But it turns out these cards are fragile, and fingerprints can short them out or cause problems with the camera or reader being able to access their contents. So the best way to keep them around forever is to get a 128 MB card and never remove it! Ideally, then, this should be a solution coupled with the purchase or ownership of a camera which interfaces directly (USB or firewire) with the PC, so there won't be a need to remove the card. Ever. That security, and the ability to store over a hundred 8x10 print-quality pix on one wafer-thin card, makes the bigger sized card easily worth the extra cost if you're getting a Fuji or other-brand digital camera.

As for brand...well, after trying a Fuji and a Viking card, and checking the wiring stats on both, it turns out the brand names of Smart Cards have almost nothing to do with quality -- these are, for all intents and purposes, interchangable -- so buying the cheapest one out there is the best bet. And, with rebates, the Viking card IS the cheapest Smart Media brand on the market -- by a factor of about 10% or more. With no complaints and lots of joyful picture taking happening in my house, I therefore give SanDisk five stars for the basic product, then...but take away one star for a higher cost. Sorry, SanDisk.

I had purchased an 128MB Olympus card (at premium price) along with my Olympus C3000 camera. But recently, I got a deal so good (at Costco), I could not pass up the opportunity to get another card.

This SanDisk product worked as expected, no problems storing, downloading, etc. Only drawback is that the "panorama" feature of the camera does not work with this memory card (but that is why I paid the higher price for the Olympus card).

Now, I have enough memory not to worry about running out during a week-long trip.

This media has been perfectly reliable in capture and download through a Olympus C3040. With comparos between the Sony Memory disk and compact flash card twice the thickness, there's very little difference in r/w that I can notice. Using the 5-shot digital `auto-winder' on the Olympus the card sucks the data down no problem. Even with repeated semi-auto firing, the memory card performs decently. It does lag at 2048x1536 (medium quality) and it will do more so at higher levels - but it's no worse than other formats. USB download through OEM cables is rapid quick compared to the slower compact flash on Kodak DC265 for some reason.

The size is unbeatable. The wear and long term use is something to keep an eye on with the contacts exposed compared to the other formats. At this price, I have no complaints buying a bunch and shooting without capacity worries.

I recently purchased The SanDisk 128 Mb card for use with my Olympus C-3020. I have been plagued by card errors since I opened the box. On three seperate occasions I have lost valuable and irreplacable family photos that I have taken. I have never had problems with the supplied Olympus SmartMedia card or the Viking card that I have since purchased. All I can say is to be careful and always keep a back-up card with you.

How many pictures will it store? It is the most commonly asked question from digital camera enthusiast but usually the question that is the most difficult to get a straight answer about. Well, considering I worked in the memory industry for over 7 years I can help clarify this perplexing question and do so unbiased as I have since changed industries.

The SanDisk 128MB SmartMedia Card, like most 128MB cards, will store on average 142 pictures when used with a 2 megapixel camera, 106 images when used with a 3 megapixel camera, 64 pictures when used with a 4 megapixel camera, 51 images when used with a 5 megapixel camera, and 40 pictures when used with a 6 megapixel camera. These numbers are based off the assumption that you are going to shoot your images at the highest quality JPEG setting available for the camera and understand that they are estimates and may be off by as much as 10 percent due to numerous factors including the complexity of the scene being shot and the compression algorithm used by your specific camera.

I truly hope this review was helpful to you in determining whether this card is the right capacity for your specific needs.

This thin little wafer of memory has a lot of storage space. It's hard to believe something this small has thousands of times more memory than the Computers of the 80's, like the Apple IIe.

I use this for my Fujifilm finepix 4800Zoom and can store up to 70 photos on the 4.3 megapixel size or over a 1000 on the VGA mode (480 x 640). For this price, its almost worth getting two but you won't need two because it can hold more than enough photos for a typical vacation.

I have an Olympus digital camera, was thinking about on purchasing an Olympus Card, but, why? Just to able to take "panoramic" photos? So, for the price, I choose the SanDisk, a to my surprise, the card is just great, had no problems since I bought it (2 months ago) and had been using it over and over.