SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash 2GB Memory Card

I thoroughly reccommend this card more so than anyother, just alone on it performance and reliability, I have not lost one shot and i've taken thousands by now.

It is slightly dear, but if like me you use it on safari's etc, then there is no denying this is the only card to get, I reccommend 2* 2gb CF cards, as the 4gb Card is slightly slower in read/write obviously due to the higher capacity.


Good Card, Good Price!   November 18, 2006
Mr. Warren Gill (Guildford, Surrey United Kingdom)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful

I bought this for a Canon 400D DSLR, works perfectly & it's very quick! I haven't found any delays on the camera yet and that's on the highest quality setting.

This is an ideal card for a high megapixel camera such as the 400D and as it's a Compact Flash card its easily used in other devices as well as the camera or when it's not in the camera, use it for transferring plain data/photos between computers.

I'd check that price as well, I think you're going to find it hard to beat, Jessops want 100 for this one in the shops!

So If you need a CF card this is a good one to go for..

Go on treat yourself... You know you want to!


Worth the marginal extra cost   September 1, 2007
PB (London, UK)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful

I bought various cards from "discount" retailers and while none of them have failed or corrupted my images, I thank my stars that I always keep the Sandisk in my camera as my first choice card. I switch to the cheaper cards on the (rare) occassions that I run out of space on the Sandisk. I recently took some 150 images in New York - a very rare opportunity for me to capture. I was very pleased with the work and transferred it to my PC then reformatted my CF card (in fact, reformatted twice). Only a day or so later, my PC died and I needed to re-install Windows from scratch. Unfortunately, my images had not been backed up to an external drive and I had lost them completely - remember the cf card had been re-formatted, too. However, Sandisk's Rescue program (free with Extreme cards) was superb - it found all my images on the card and I was able to re-import them to my HDD with no fuss, and no loss of quality (only the filenames had been changed, but that was no great hardship).

If I spent an extra 5 on the Sandisk card over a no-brand alternative, it paid for itself 100x over in that one instance. Superb quality card and great additional benefit.

The speed of the card is great - I shoot in RAW only, on a Canon DSLR (8MP) and the card flies through writing and transferring, using USB 2.0. However, the speed is not a huge issue - the cheap cards are not noticeably slower (what's a few seconds really?), but the fact that "lost" images could be recovered is priceless.