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Rating:  - Great Value
Have owned 4 months. Bought 2 128MB cards. no problems for 3 months. camera stopped recognizing 1 of the cards, but Viking promptly replaced. Best customer service I,ve seen for a long time. rebate was extra slow to arrive, took about 3 months.
Rating: - are you sure this really works with olympus c3030?
I was able to use a 128Mb card in my olympus 3040, until today, when it suddenly stopped working. I think the thing I finally did was actually use more than 64Mb of space on the card. Suddenly the first 4 images on my card was corrupted, as though its file system wrapped around back to the beginning, and now the camera won't work with the card at all. It's as though the camera couldn't tell it was 128Mb card until data beyond the 64Mb limit was written.The camera will not use the card no matter what I do, but I was able to copy 124Mb of data to the card via my PCMCIA adapter on my laptop, and read that data off to validate it. It worked fine. Meanwhile, I have never actually seen any piece of olympus documentation ANYWHERE that says that anything greater than 64Mb is supported, including the olympus web site. Anybody care to comment?
Rating: - The cheapest Smart Media on the market
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. Order now before the sale price changes!
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