Transcend 16 GB 133x CompactFlash Memory Card TS16GCF133

by Transcend

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 3.2 x 1 inches ; 0.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000W0BC7I
• Item model number: TS16GCF133
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #20 in Electronics > Camera & Photo > Accessories > Digital Camera Accessories > Memory Cards > CompactFlash Cards
  • #97 in Electronics > Camera & Photo > Accessories > Blank Media
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 28, 2005

Product Description

Transcend's 133X CompactFlash cards offer the perfect combination of speed, capacity, and reliability. To ensure ultimate compatibility and speed, Transcend's 133X cards operate in both dual-channel and Ultra DMA mode 4, making consecutive shooting and non-stop video recording easier than ever. Impressive transfer speeds and enormous capacities up to 32GB ensure you get the very best results from your high-tech digital equipment.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars more than adequate performance for the price, February 7, 2009

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Nomad Soul (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transcend 16 GB 133x CompactFlash Memory Card TS16GCF133 (Personal Computers)

This card surprised me. I expected it to be considerably slower than my Sandisk Ultra II cards. But once I got a high speed card reader that let me access the full performance of the cards I found that it's actually considerably faster for reading, and only fractionally slower for writing.

I get between 5-7 megabytes per second in my write speed tests, which is roughly on par with what I get from my Ultra II cards. But in read performance I got speeds of almost 30 megabytes a second. Compared to around 10 for the Ultra II.

I should specify that this was with a UDMA capable card reader, the Lexar Pro UDMA reader, among the fastest USB 2.0 card readers out there. Performance on gear that isn't UDMA compatible may be different.

There certainly are faster cards out there, if you're willing to pay for them. For comparison, a fast enough camera can achieve three times the write speed of this card with a card that costs around $85 for an 8 gigabyte model. But you need to ask yourself if you both need that kind of speed and have gear capable of utilizing it.

If you're not in the habit of routinely filling the buffer of your camera, if you don't find yourself constantly having to wait for your camera to write enough data to the card for you to be able to take just one more picture, and you're not currently using high end, high speed cards, this is a card to consider.


Four stars out of consideration for the price/performance and capacity ratio. It's not the fastest card out there, but for the price it offers performance and capacity that's hard to beat.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty darned good card, February 7, 2008

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Tony L. Glenn "SkylandPix" (Conover, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transcend 16 GB 133x CompactFlash Memory Card TS16GCF133 (Personal Computers)

Other reviewers have trashed this CF card because of speed issues. The one I bought performs as well as any other 133X CF I own (others by SanDisk, Kingston & a 4gig Transcend). I can shoot blazing fast bursts with my new Sony DSLR A700. Totally meets my needs. Maybe it's a bit below the needs for CF computing - but for a camera it's very nice. And I get 2700+ photos in Fine mode at 12.2 megapixels a shot!

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cheap but no speed demon, January 6, 2008

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Neal Oshima - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transcend 16 GB 133x CompactFlash Memory Card TS16GCF133 (Personal Computers)

I bought this item at the same time as a 16gb Sandisk Extreme III card for use in an EOS 1DS mark III camera. Since it is a 133x cark I had high hopes it would be nearly as fast at half the price but, alas, it took 50% longer to transfer the same files.