Customer Reviews

SanDisk 32MB SmartMedia Card

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I'm very pleased with this card. It is real simple to install. Just turn of the camera and pull out the old card and pop the 32 mb card in. The price is much cheaper than the Olympus 32 mb card. The only difference is that you can't take panoramic shots. Save your 8 mb card for that. The nice thing about the added memory for the camera is now I can take it on vacation and snap as many pictures as I want without worrying about downloading them to a PC. My next purchase will be a USB card reader because the serial connection on my digital camera is painfully slow.

It is a "normal" smartmedia card. I brought it with my Olympus D490 Zoom camera, because the camera's card is only 8MB. The card is simple, and, buying it (until 31 Dec 2000) you win 12 MP3 songs from SanDisk (various artists. It's a must have for digital cameras. With this card I can shoot more them a 100 pictures in SQ-HIGH quality of my camera, I think it's suficient!

The SanDisk 32MB SmartMedia card was the largest available when I bought it last year to supplement the 64MB onboard the Rio500 MP3 player. It worked flawlessly, easily accomodating about 38 extra minutes of 160-kHz quality MP3 music data - enough to get the last couple of tracks off of 72-minute CD albums. The card is about an inch square and really "wafer-thin." (less than 1mm thick)

Bear in mind that since that time, a 64MB card has become available, and it will work flawlessly in the Rio500; larger MB cards are promised and should be compatible as well.

If you also use a Compact Flash digital camera, it's worth considering a cardreader/writer such as the Viking Intelliflash (also available from Amazon.) With this you can easily read and write data from both card formats, SmartMedia and CompactFlash.

I recently bought the Diamond Rio PMP 300 and this card works just as well as any other card out there. This card has an advantage ovre the other cards: the price. This card is an awesome buy, work just as well as an expensive card without the price.

Here is general guidline of about how many pictures a smart media card can hold. This list was made up using a 2.1 mega pixel camera at 1600x1200 resolution. (The Fuji Finepix 2300). So if you have a higher mega pixel camera the amount of pictures it can hold will decrease and you will be able to hold a few more pictures with a lower mega pixel model. But these numbers will give you a basic idea so you will know what capacity of smart media card is for you. (1600x1200 resolution) Example: Listed is the card capacity with the amount of photos it can hold in the camera's Fine (best mode), Normal, and Basic photo modes. (Fine,Normal,Basic)

8 MB (9,19,39) 16 MB (19,39,75) 32 MB (40,82,155) 64 MB (82,170,330) 128 MB (168,350,700)

*Most camera's normal mode takes pictures of good enough quality for most photos you will take, unless the camera is under 1.3 mega pixels.

*Many cameras come with a 8MB memory card. But that usually isn't enough memory for most people, here is what I would suggest purchasing:

My suggestions:

1-1.9 mega pixel camera - 8MB or 16 MB

2-2.9 mega pixel camera - 32 MB

3 mega pixels and up - 64 MB

I recently bought the Diamond Rio PMP 500. This card has an advantage over the other cards: the price. This card is an awesome buy, work just as well as an expensive card without the price. I wish it was 64 MB though. I still sugest it.

Don't buy this card until you have weighed the options of purchasing a 64MB and 128MB SmartMedia card first.

Here are the reasons to purchase a larger card:

1. Price. A larger card is less expensive per megabyte. For example, the Viking 128MB card is currently ... cheaper than buying 4 of these SanDisk cards. The 64MB card is about ... cheaper.

2. Future proof. In the technology sector it is always better to purchase for tomorrow. You can be rest assured that some new fangled device or service will need you to have a larger storage capacity. Simply look at the way digital cameras are going. Each release the Megapixel rate increases and thus so does each images file size.

3. Convenience. You will not want to be carrying around 2-4 smaller cards when you could be just carrying around one (which you aren't really carrying around because it is in your device).

Just take a look at the options, weigh the advantages and disadvantages, then make your decision.

When I purchased this card, it was the lowest price one available. To me, the price is still worth it. Not having to empty my digital camera of photos every 10 minutes is a luxury.

It never "drops" photos or loses capacity. Coupled with the SanDisk SmartMedia USB reader, it's a great package for any digital camera user. My digital camera has gone from gathering dust to being used daily. If I buy a larger capacity one, I will go with SanDisk simply because I know the quality is good, regardless of the price.

Why not buy a 64mb one? I'm tempted to do so, now that the prices are so good. But to be honest, I'm the type of person who takes a few pictures here, and a few pictures there, and only looks at my photos after the disk is full. Half the time I end up with A LOT of great photos that I don't know what to do with. If you are like me, you may want to stick with a smaller card, simply because those photos build up.

Check out your options, and get whatever suits your budget. But if you are thinking about the SanDisk, go for it.

You recomend this product for use with the Polaroid PDC 640 Plus Digital Camera and it isn't compatible with this camera. I've bought this card because you recommended it and it isn't true.

SanDish also makes a 3-1/2 floppy template you can insert your SmartMedia into to download your photos to your PC. It works great, and makes photo transfers simple. Be aware that the FlashPath only works with SmartMedia up to 32MB. Higher capacity chips are great for weddings and events where you want a lot of photos. A 32MB is more manageable for occasional photographers.