Lexar Media Professional Series UDMA 8GB Compact Flash 300x

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 5 x 1 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000PEF254
• Item model number: CF8GB-300-381
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2007

Product Description

Product Description

300X high-speed CompactFlash card * 45MB per second minimum sustained write capability * 8GB card stores up to 2,200 12-megapixel JPEG digital photos depending on your digital camera's settings *

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent speed if used with a UDMA-capable card reader, March 30, 2009

By	Michael Sandman (Brookline, MA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought the Lexar 8 GB UDMA card to use in a Canon 5D Mark II, which writes very large (20MB) files when you shoot in RAW mode (which I do). The place where I see an advantage is in downloading these large files to my computer.

Mated to a UDMA card reader, the card transfers about 72 files a minute or a bit better than one per second. My old SanDisk Extreme III card in a non-UDMA-enabled reader takes about 3-4 times longer. And of course if you have a camera that writes large files, 8GB gives you some headroom when you're out taking large number of photos -- it can take about 240 RAW images on my camera.

There's also an advantage to a high speed card like this if you shoot continuously with this type of camera, since files will be written more quickly with a fast card. If you have a UDMA-enabled camera and shoot often in continuous mode, this may be a worthwhile purchase for you. If you have a need for lots of capacity with any camera and you have or buy a UDMA-enabled card reader, this card will speed up file transfer very significantly. In my experience Lexar makes very reliable cards that do not have compatibility issues with major brands of digital SLRs.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast for now, June 11, 2008

By	J. Coates (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This card is so fast and so well suited to the Sony Alpha 700, that I set the camera to shoot JPEGs at high speed and use it to make movies!
If you buy from Amazon affiliate Adorama (B&H too) in 2008 and by a certain date, there is an $[...] rebate on this card.
Being a "pro" card simply means it is fast and more durable.
If you never ever shoot sports or animals, get the 8GB 133x CF on sale or if they have a rebate on that, and save some money.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FAST Card, November 24, 2007

By	K. Edwards "K~E" (Issaquah, WA) - See all my reviews

Not much to say.. this card works as advertised, works at full speed in my Sony A700 that supports UDMA and off-loads very fast from the Lexar Firewire reader. I can copy 8Gig of images over FW400 in under 5 minutes!!!