Kingston CF/16GB-S2 16GB Elite Pro CompactFlash Card 133x | 
 enlarge | Brand: Kingston
Category: CE
List Price: $74.99
Buy New: $29.88
You Save: $45.11 (60%)
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Rating:  4 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Free Memory Slots: GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 4.5 x 0.8 x 5.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty
MPN: CF/16GB-S2
Model: CF/16GB-S2
UPC: 740617123944
EAN: 0740617123944
ASIN: B000Y16TY6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Product Description
The newly redesigned Kingston CompactFlash Elite Pro offers a minimum sustained write speed of 133x. The Elite Pro is designed specifically to help advanced amateur or professional photographers get the best performance from their high-end imaging devices and applications. No matter how fast you work, CompactFlash Elite Pro can keep pace. With ultra-fast transfer rates and up to 16 GB capacity, you can capture more continuous, high-resolution images in less time with the Elite Pro than with traditional CompactFlash memory cards. And when you need to transfer your largest files, your production workflow will be more efficient than ever. The Kingston 16 GB Elite Pro CompactFlash card is backed by a limited lifetime warranty.
Product Description
Kingston's CompactFlash Elite Pro is a redesigned memory card that offers a minimum sustained write speed of 133x. The Elite Pro is designed specifically to help advanced amateur or professional photographers get the best performance from their high-end imaging devices and applications. No matter how fast you work, CF Elite Pro can keep pace. With its ultra-fast transfer rates of 25MB per seconds read and 20MB per seconds write, you can capture more continuous, high-resolution images in less time with the Elite Pro than with traditional CompactFlash memory cards. When it's time to transfer your largest files, watch them fly! Your production workflow will be more efficient than ever.
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Slow storage with lots of room December 2, 2008
Luving it (Seaside, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this as a backup for my upcoming week long trip that I don't want to bring along the laptop.Also partly to satisfy my curiosity as to how much I can get away with for the cheap price of this one. I bet my luck partly on the Kingston pro reputation. Well, I was quite a bit disappointed.
Just tested it on 40D high speed continuous shooting in RAW, also tested are 4GB SanDisk Extreme III, 4GB Ultra II/15ms, 4GB Ultra II regular, 8GB Transcend x133. Of course, Extreme III is the fastest. but this Kingston is the slowest, to my surprise. Because the Transcend x133 did better than the Ultra II regular, so I was expecting the same for this Kingston. Not so. Also, when I tried "Erase All" on all these cards, Kingston also comes last, by quite a bit. To be fair, Extreme III isn't that great with burst RAW shooting either - once the initial burst is completed (camera buffer filled), the recovery speed is only acceptable - a little wait, then I can do 4-5 continuous shots, then a small wait again. But the other cards basically all take forever to complete the writing - the difference is between longer forever vs slightly shorter ones. That makes wonder how people use 1Ds. 40D only got 10MB after all. Then again, people lived with 34/36 frame films for a long time before the digitals. So what do I know :)
I sorta expected to be on par with the Transcend x133, but turns out, Transcend is quite a bit faster in both read and write. Hey, I still got a 16GB for the price of 8GB, didn't I? :)
Bottom line, this card is definitely slow. But perfectly usable if you are not in a hurry. And from what I've heard, Kingston got a pretty good reputation. But if I were to do this again, I probably would have opted for the Extreme III 8GB than this one, they are about the same price right now.
 Lots of memory, great price August 29, 2008
J. Wilkinson (PA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Used this for a trip where I had no way to archive photos on a laptop or other. This allowed me to hold approx 1150 pics in RAW format on my Olympus 500E. Write time seemed just as fast as a smaller Sandisk Extreeme III. Very Satisfied
 3 months and working fine... July 11, 2008
R. A Gibson (San Antonio, TX USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are 3 major issues when it comes to Flash Memory cards for our cameras... Capacity, Speed, & most importantly (or it should be) reliability. Rating this card for all three, I'd have to say it is an excellent performer. 16GB is huge (some might argue TOO BIG, the thinking is that it is better to spread your pics across more cards "Just in Case"), 133x is, while not the fastest, still lightning quick for all but those shooting 10 fps. And does it work RELIABLY? Well, so far, so good. 3 months and counting, zero failures. Of course, if you want zero failures GUARANTEED, you're going to have to foot out some serious cash for the Hoodman Raw CF Cards (zero failures in North America ever!). But back to this card, excellent price vs. performance. Hard to go wrong. Happy Shooting.
 Lost data in the first week itself! January 18, 2008
ap2ap
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I used this CF card for the first time with Nikon D300. I first formatted it in the camera. After saving about 25 pictures (both on RAW and JPEG) over 5 days, the camera suddenly flashed the message "CF Card not formatted" and the pictures were no longer visible (they were visible earlier). I had to reformat the card and lost all the pictures taken. This was shocking as had this happened after few hundered photographs, I would have lost all my work. After reformatting it is working again, but I have no idea as to why it happend in the first place.
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