1 GB CompactFlash for $139.99 after Rebate - Today Only!

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=jasondunn-20&path=tg/detail/-/B00006AE3K/qid%3D1044669496/br%3D1-6' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/r...669496/br%3D1-6</a><br /><br /></div>$200 or so wasn't cheap enough for you? Well, Amazon and Sandisk are having a crazy rebate on these cards - I can't believe how low this is! The card is $224.99, and there's a $75 mail in rebate. Get an additional $10-off coupon from <a href="http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=14285491a54939f128792bcc6bd56994&postid=457784#post457784">this Brighthand thread.</a> Here's the catch: the $75 rebate has to be post-marked 2/8...which is TODAY. Act fast, and get this awesome deal! (which just happens to be an affiliate link...)<br /><br /><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006AE3K.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>UPDATE:</b> I was a little incorrect. You have to buy the card <b>TODAY</b>, but you have until 3/8 to send in the rebate.

[etalianstallion]

Correction: purchase must be by 2/8, and rebate must be postmarked by 3/8

[wizardmaster2k]

wait, so we can buy it anytime before the 3rd of march?

[upplepop]

No, we must purchase on or before Feb. 8 and postmark the rebate envelope by Mar. 8.
I just took advantage of this GREAT deal. However, usually when a company is offering rebates on their products, it means either they are coming out with new stuff, or they are going to lower their prices soon. Think that's happening in this case?

[etalianstallion]

No, the purchase must be made by 2/8/2003, so make sure your order is in today, latest tomorrow.

The rebate must be postmarked by 3/8/2003. If you are not certain that the item gets to you in time, then pay a few bucks for faster shipping to make sure you can send out your rebate form by 3/8/2003.

[etalianstallion]

Beat me to the punch. 8)

I do think that something new is coming. In fact, Sandisk already announced WiFi CF and SD cards that have memory built in, both in the $150 range.

You also have the cards breaking the 1GB barrier (I believe Pretec has 3GB coming out soon). Plus, SD cards are coming down in price, so CF must follow suit. Another thing is that this Sandisk card (not the Ultra series) has a pretty slow read/write speeds, but for PPC use I think it is sufficent. For a 4+MP digicam, it may be a bit slow, especially for RAW images.

For me, this is just too good a deal to pass up, about 14 cents/MB. Then again, I thought the same thing when I bought my Viking 512MB CF 2 months ago for $180 - $50 rebate = $130.

[blusparkles]

How do mail-in rebates work? My mum's going to the United States in a week and will be staying there for 2 weeks. I was just wondering whether she would be able to buy the compact flash card on her credit card and then get the mail-in rebate sent to her while she's there? How does these things work?

Thanks!

[FredMurphy]

What the deal with all these mail-in rebates? I know HOW they work but why? Not something we get in the UK.

These deals are usually US only. :x (Is that the purpose of the rebate?) What happened to the internet and the global marketplace?

[thenikjones]

[quote="FredMurphy"]What the deal with all these mail-in rebates? I know HOW they work but why? Not something we get in the UK.

Generally speaking, the take-up rate is apparently about 5%. This means a good deal for the consumers that can be bothered to take them up, and saves the manufacturers money that they'd definately lose if they simply lowered the price. That's the "why".

This rebate seems straightforward, a lot of the UK ones tend to be for extended warranties/insurance e.g. insure your vacuum cleaner for five years for £60, refunded if never used. BUT you need to keep the receipt and mail it in within 1 month after the five years is up - I doubt 5% of people manage that! That said, alarmed events in PocketPFC/Outlook can be put to good use here.

[jeffmd]

blus, rebates usualy take a minimum of 4 weeks... and maxiumum of 8, more if you are unlucky. (ie tiger direct rebates are the worst... 3 months, if you get it at all)

this is a great steal but..damn.. I dont have any need for it. :( all my memory needs are satisfied with a 256 meg flash and 128meg SD. ^^

[shawnc]

Rebates bite :evil: , but this is just tooooo good to pass up.

[Jonathon Watkins]

I if I ordered this from the UK and sent it to a US address (friend), how would they cash in the rebate? Is it a cheque?

The best price I can find for a 1Gb CF in the UK is £472.50 or $750 from expasys. That's the LOWEST price! :cry:

[Roosterman]

I if I ordered this from the UK and sent it to a US address (friend), how would they cash in the rebate? Is it a cheque?

The best price I can find for a 1Gb CF in the UK is £472.50 or $750 from expasys. That's the LOWEST price! :cry:
I don't know if this would work. Does the credit card your using have a US address? Most sites/CC require a shipment to the address on record for the CC.

[JeZaD]

1Gb CF in the UK is £472.50 ????

I'm a brit surviving in germany and that sounds WAY to high.
Just order from a european on-line shop. No customs hassles.

Here is a portal with a list of shops offering the cheapest CF prices:
http://www.geizhals.at/deutschland/?cat=sm_cf

Common prices listed are EURO 205 for 1GB CF Microdrive and EURO 270 - 300 for 1GB SanDisk CF (approx 200 GBP).

At least DELL's Pocket PC isn't ripping us off quite as most imports - and its the same price in the UK and on the continent! That's also a first...

[Jonathon Watkins]

OK - after hunting a bit more I have found http://www.globaldirect.co.uk who sell the SANDISK 1GB COMPACTFLASH CARD for £244.35.

Amazon will let me use a UK card to ship to a US address for electronics. I have previously bought books from Amazon US which weren’t available from Amazon UK. No problems at all with that.

Yes, the £270 I paid for my Dell Axim is reasonable fair - very good that Dell was reasonable about that for once.

[Deslock]

Be warned: Many complain about performance of Sandisk CF and SD cards. I personally tried a Sandisk Ultra CF in my digicam and it was incredibly slow... I ended up going with a Viking.

[Pony99CA]

According to Amazon, these are now out of stock. I don't know whether you'll qualify for the rebate if you order today but the order doesn't ship (and they don't bill you) until after today. I suspect the Amazon invoice would have to show the date ordered, not the date shipped, to qualify.

Steve

[goirish!!]

What the deal with all these mail-in rebates? I know HOW they work but why? Not something we get in the UK.


This is a way for manufacturers to get you to buy products that you may normally not and then hold out giving you the rebate money until your frustration level reaches the boiling point.

I believe that there is a Bean Counter using the following formula:

% of Rebate denial * % of frustrated customers = increased profit through non-follow up by frustrated customers :twisted:

I recently had to fight for a Canon, Dell, and PNY rebate all in the same month. The payback is barely worth the effort.

From my experiences only about 50% of all rebates I send in are approved with no issues on the first try. All others are "lost, incorrect bar code, expired offer, missing documentation, etc." That's why you MUST scan copies of EVERYTHING you send in as proof, because they won't honor the rebate without a fight!!

[goirish!!]

Be warned: Many complain about performance of Sandisk CF and SD cards. I personally tried a Sandisk Ultra CF in my digicam and it was incredibly slow... I ended up going with a Viking.


I have a SanDisk 128Mb SD card that is slllllllloooooooooowwwwwwwwww in my Dell. A 4mg file may take several min. to transfer to the card. Once on the card access seems okay though. Are all SD cards slow to write but quick to read??

[Jonathon Watkins]

Be warned: Many complain about performance of Sandisk CF and SD cards. I personally tried a Sandisk Ultra CF in my digicam and it was incredibly slow... I ended up going with a Viking.


I have a SanDisk 128Mb SD card that is slllllllloooooooooowwwwwwwwww in my Dell. A 4mg file may take several min. to transfer to the card. Once on the card access seems okay though. Are all SD cards slow to write but quick to read??

Yes, they are.

Have a look at this:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare/

The Scandisks do not come out wel.....

[VanHlebar]

Be warned: Many complain about performance of Sandisk CF and SD cards. I personally tried a Sandisk Ultra CF in my digicam and it was incredibly slow... I ended up going with a Viking.


I have a SanDisk 128Mb SD card that is slllllllloooooooooowwwwwwwwww in my Dell. A 4mg file may take several min. to transfer to the card. Once on the card access seems okay though. Are all SD cards slow to write but quick to read??

Yes, they are.

Have a look at this:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare/

The Scandisks do not come out wel.....

I use a 256MB Sandisk CF card in my Dell. It is slow if I try to copy from the desktop to the CF card while its in the Dell. Spend the extra money and get a CF Card Reader. I can copy entire CDs in just a few seconds. No more than a minute or so. I don't ever try to copy from the Dell to the Desktop or visa versa unless it is a single file and small.

Once inside the Dell I have no complaints about the speed of the CF card. Then again I use the SD card for all of my applications, the CF card is used only for MP3s to listen to music. Man if I could only convience SHMBO to get this for me for my B'day I would be a happy camper. 512MB SD card for storage. 1GB CF card for music and ebooks! Just thinking of it makes me giddy. :)

-Eric

[Jonathon Watkins]

Does anyone know how much difference the speed of CF cards makes in digital cameras? The 512Mb Scandisk CF has a write speed of 855KBs compared to the 256Mb Viking CF which has a write speed of just over 2Mbs. An IBM microsdrive has a speed of just over 3.2Mbs. I will be mainly using the CF card in my PPC with some occasional use in my Canon S45 camera. I will be getting a USB2 card reader, so..... does the speed difference Really matter?

[Pony99CA]

Does anyone know how much difference the speed of CF cards makes in digital cameras?

Have you read the digital film comparison (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare) article at Digitial Photography Review?

Steve

[jgt]

Well, you snooze, you lose.

Amazon site now estimates March 14 as a ship date, a week after the reabte postmark deadline

[goirish!!]

[/quote]

I use a 256MB Sandisk CF card in my Dell. It is slow if I try to copy from the desktop to the CF card while its in the Dell. Spend the extra money and get a CF Card Reader. I can copy entire CDs in just a few seconds. No more than a minute or so. I don't ever try to copy from the Dell to the Desktop or visa versa unless it is a single file and small.

Once inside the Dell I have no complaints about the speed of the CF card. Then again I use the SD card for all of my applications, the CF card is used only for MP3s to listen to music. Man if I could only convience SHMBO to get this for me for my B'day I would be a happy camper. 512MB SD card for storage. 1GB CF card for music and ebooks! Just thinking of it makes me giddy. :)

-Eric[/quote]

I may try moving my programs to the SD card and then cleaning out my CF for muzik and stuff like that.

To add muzik to my cards I usually just go through explorer and copy and paste to the card in the Dell, buying a reader may be the way to go.

[Jonathon Watkins]

Does anyone know how much difference the speed of CF cards makes in digital cameras?

Have you read the digital film comparion (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare) article at Digitial Photography Review?

Steve

Steve - look back a few posts. I was the one who posted this link. :wink:

I was merely asking - does the speed differnce make any diffence to photography itself? I don't care about transfer times themselves, only if they prevent me capturing photos. It is not clear from the DP article and I just wanted to know whay other people thought.

[Jonathon Watkins]

Well, you snooze, you lose.

Amazon site now estimates March 14 as a ship date, a week after the reabte postmark deadline

Where did you see this date jgr? All I can see is "In stock soon."

[Pony99CA]

Does anyone know how much difference the speed of CF cards makes in digital cameras?

Have you read the digital film comparison (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare) article at Digitial Photography Review?

Steve - look back a few posts. I was the one who posted this link. :wink:

I thought I remembered you posting the link somewhere, but I was too lazy to go back and look for it. I should be getting to bed. :lol:


I was merely asking - does the speed differnce make any diffence to photography itself? I don't care about transfer times themselves, only if they prevent me capturing photos. It is not clear from the DP article and I just wanted to know whay other people thought.
My understanding is that transfer time is important. The faster the camera can write the image to the card, the sooner it can take another picture. If the card is slow, it could prevent you from captuing a photo.

Is that what you're asking? The DP Review article discussed write speed, but they seem to have assumed the reader knew why it was important.

Steve

[Craig Horlacher]

Well, you snooze, you lose.

Amazon site now estimates March 14 as a ship date, a week after the reabte postmark deadline

Where did you see this date jgr? All I can see is "In stock soon."

I just ordered it. You see the date after you place the order:

Shipping estimate: March 14, 2003 - March 28, 2003
Delivery estimate: March 19, 2003 - April 4, 2003

I'm hoping they are just giving themselves a lot of time and I'll actually have it in two weeks or so. :)

[Barbay1]

Just got one -- it's a good deal even at $225. :o
I hope they send it to me in time for the rebate coupon.

I'm going to use it for my Pocket PC backups to CF memory.
My 256 MB only allows me to do 4 images. Plus that CF card was the same price or more! This will be great -- it will probably hold 1 month's worth of backups! :D

[Jason Dunn]

These deals are usually US only. :x (Is that the purpose of the rebate?) What happened to the internet and the global marketplace?

The "global marketplace" is mostly hype - I can't order these in Canada either. I have to get friends in the US to order them for me... :roll:

[CharlesWilcox]

Now it says estimated ship date is Feb. 10... 2004!!! I almost didn't notice. Yikes.

[Kati Compton]

When I've been looking at these latest cheap CF cards, most retailers with the good pricing have been on backorder or out of stock. It's a bit annoying. Not that I was planning on getting one, but still.

[Craig Horlacher]

Just got one -- it's a good deal even at $225. :o
I hope they send it to me in time for the rebate coupon.

I'm going to use it for my Pocket PC backups to CF memory.
My 256 MB only allows me to do 4 images. Plus that CF card was the same price or more! This will be great -- it will probably hold 1 month's worth of backups! :D

I ususally only keep one backup on cf at a time. Older ones I archive on hard disk. That saves a lot of room for more music etc:)

[jet8810]

OK...you are all speaking of CF card speeds and how they vary very much, and since I ordered the 1.0 gb CF I am very interested in the speed of this card. The only problem is that

CF speed comparison (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare/)

that link which you have all tossed up 3 or 4 times does NOT tell you the speed of this card! Does anybody know where I can find the speed of this card?

[Jonathon Watkins]

Well - the families of CF cards generally have timings pretty close to each other, so I would not imagine it would be too different. In the same way different sized of HDs e.g. the 40, 60, 80 & 180 Gb WD Caviar JBs all have very similar characteristics.

Note this part of what DPreview were saying:
The other noticeable difference is in the device's ability to make use of the cards performance, your camera and its CF interface has a large influence on how a card performs. Many cards will perform better in D-SLR's and especially professional digital SLR's (most professional D-SLR's can push the results shown by the D30 by 50-70%).

The DP Review article discussed write speed, but they seem to have assumed the reader knew why it was important.

Well, DPReview talked about transfer times, not taking times. They should have been more explicit really. My S45 is rated at several frames per second for the first few seconds, then 2 frames a second after that. I am using a Expansys (Rebadged Hitatchi) 256Mb CF card. The camera has internal memory to buffer the shots, so I don't think it is a big issue for me as I should not be prevented from taking a picture at a particular moment.

Could anyone tell me where the estimated shipping date is shown, ot is that only when you have ordered?

[Thoughtful Guy]

OK...you are all speaking of CF card speeds and how they vary very much, and since I ordered the 1.0 gb CF I am very interested in the speed of this card. The only problem is that

CF speed comparison (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare/)

that link which you have all tossed up 3 or 4 times does NOT tell you the speed of this card! Does anybody know where I can find the speed of this card?

First, there is no set speed of the memory card, it is very device dependent. That said, you can average the speed across devices and you'll see that Sandisk generally comes out on or near the bottom.

Second, there are only a handful of memory card manufacturers. All the brands you see are just a bunch of stickers on pretty much the same memory.

Lastly, it seems the fastest generally are Viking and IBM Microdrives. Middle appears to be Simpletech, Delkin, and Lexar. The slowest is Sandisk.

For a digital camera, get faster memory. For a PDA, go with middle speed. Either way, I'm avoiding Sandisk.

[jet8810]

at $140 for 1.0 GB, I won't be complaining about the speed...TRUST ME! If you want to pay the $290 (no rebates either) for the 1gb Viking have fun! :).

[Thoughtful Guy]

at $140 for 1.0 GB, I won't be complaining about the speed...TRUST ME! If you want to pay the $290 (no rebates either) for the 1gb Viking have fun! :).

Then why did you ask?

If all memory worked exactly the same, their wouldn't be any price differential. As it is, capacity is only one component, then there's speed, reliability, longevity, etc. Simpletech, which is moderately fast, is also aggresively offering rebates which puts their overall price right near Sandisk's.

[Janak Parekh]

When I've been looking at these latest cheap CF cards, most retailers with the good pricing have been on backorder or out of stock. It's a bit annoying. Not that I was planning on getting one, but still.
Well, it's supply and demand. If it's that cheap, it's likely to go. :) Either that, or the vendor says "hey, it's out of stock, no harm in selling it cheap." Probably a little of both.

--janak

[jet8810]

Thoughtful Guy, I asked about the speed because I was curious. In a PDA it seems as if the speed probably wont matter all that much, but I will test it today. I have a 128mb CF Mr. Flash card and a 256mb CF Sandisk already, and in my digital camera the 128mb CF takes 3 seconds to save a picture after it is taken, while the 256mb CF Sandisk takes about 5 and a half seconds! Pretty big difference there!

BTW...I check simple tech price here (http://pocketpcthoughts.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=581074/search=simple%25201%2520gb%2520CF/ut=432214467269fd1a) and it is $350, then there is a $75 rebate. Doesnt seem to be quite where Sandisks are. You are right though, the sandisks are probably slower, but in a Pocket PC you need to wonder if it is even noticable.

[disconnected]

I've never noticed the speed difference between different CF cards in my iPAQ, but in my camera (Minolta S404), I can definitely see the difference.

I did some tests last spring, and for a regular Kingston 256MB CF card, at the 'fine' picture setting, the time to copy the picture to the disk was about 6 seconds, and at the highest quality Tiff setting, the time was about 25 seconds. I bought a Lexar 12X card that was advertised as being high-speed for use in cameras, and found that it had the exact same times as the Kingston card. A regular 256MB Sandisk (not an Ultra), at both settings, took THREE TIMES as long, almost a minute and a half at the highest settings.

I'd heard that the larger Sandisk cards were improved, and that seems to be true. I just got a 512MB Sandisk from Amazon (the 79.99 after rebate deal, before I saw the IG deals). I tested it in my camera, and the speed is equal to the Kingston and 12X Lexar cards. I'd assume the Ultra would be faster still.

[Jonathon Watkins]

Well, I've bought one and had it sent to a friend in the US - so we shall see. :D

[cyj]

This discussion has been enlightening. I've got a couple of questions. On my iPaq 3835 I use a 512 mb Transcend CF with sleeve and have moved files to my Sandisk 256 SD. It is incredibly slow. But I seem to be able to access programs installed on my Sandisk 256 at an acceptable speed (dictionaries, ebooks, etc). So would I want to avoid installing a program that required inputs on my SD card and instead install them on my CF card (not that I do alot of that)? Or am I misunderstanding things.

Also, I notice that the KB per second Read time on some CF's in the dpreview is double the Sandisk. Can you draw from this that a program that takes 5 seconds to open on one CF card would take 10 seconds to open on a Sandisk CF.

Lastly, I would be more interested in waiting for larger CF cards. Anybody have any idea on when these might come around?

[Merlion]

Lastly, I would be more interested in waiting for larger CF cards. Anybody have any idea on when these might come around?
How much larger?
Pretec has 3GB, 2GB & 1.5GB CF for quite a while now. :)
IBM has announced over a yr ago that 6GB Microdrive "should be" in the market last yr using their patented antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media. AFC is more commonly referred to as their "Pixie Dust" technology. There's still no signs that 6GB Microdrives are hitting the market soon. :?

[Janak Parekh]

There's still no signs that 6GB Microdrives are hitting the market soon. :?
Yup, their window of opportunity is rapidly closing. However, we don't know what the price difference between 3GB CF and 6GB MD will be. Most likely, the latter will be a lot cheaper if the two come out in the near future.

--janak

[Jonathon Watkins]

Don't forget that Hitatchi now owns IBMs HD business - including the Microdrives as these following Inq articles make clear.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7052
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3806

This is an article about an IBM advert about Pixie Dust that appeared in the UK press a few days ago.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7663

[Pony99CA]

This is an article about an IBM advert about Pixie Dust that appeared in the UK press a few days ago.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7663
That's a different "pixie dust". Those commercials are running in the U.S., but are part of their consulting business ads. They just use "pixie dust" in those ads as a metaphor for something imaginary. They also have ads with a time machine, a "universal business adapter" and a "reality detector" (or BS detector).

Steve

[awu]

:( I placed the order in time last night but I didn't brother to print out the rebate coupons thinking I can do that at a later point, but guess what, it's gone!! Can anyone send me electronic copies of these coupons? Thanks in advance.

[Jonathon Watkins]

That's a different "pixie dust". Those commercials are running in the U.S., but are part of their consulting business ads. They just use "pixie dust" in those ads as a metaphor for something imaginary. They also have ads with a time machine, a "universal business adapter" and a "reality detector" (or BS detector).


Umm, yes Steve. That was the whole point of the Inq. article. IBM marketing should have spotted the fact that they had previously trumpeted "pixie dust" as a great IBM breakthrough – and are now saying that it does not exist.

I'm in the same boat Awu - I have emailed Amazon but gotten no response. I need to print the coupon out as well. Can anyone help? (NOT good of Amazon to do that).

[Jonathon Watkins]

OK - Amazon came through - here are the rebate codes:

To print the correct rebate coupon for this item, just access the
following URLs:

Front:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006AE3K.01.RB01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Back:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006AE3K.01.RB02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Pony99CA]

That's a different "pixie dust". Those commercials are running in the U.S., but are part of their consulting business ads. They just use "pixie dust" in those ads as a metaphor for something imaginary. They also have ads with a time machine, a "universal business adapter" and a "reality detector" (or BS detector).

Umm, yes Steve. That was the whole point of the Inq. article. IBM marketing should have spotted the fact that they had previously trumpeted "pixie dust" as a great IBM breakthrough – and are now saying that it does not exist.

Maybe, but the ads weren't really targeted at a crowd that would likely have heard of the ruthenium "pixie dust". The connection was a bit humorous, but I think they made more out of it than necessary.

Is the Inquirer a real news source or more of a tabloid? That article sounds more like the latter.

Of course, maybe I'm just touchy about it being an ex-IBMer. :-)

Steve

[Jonathon Watkins]

Is the Inquirer a real news source or more of a tabloid?

They are both. Both the Register and the Inq print news, rumours and speculation, which is often right. When I was at 3Com several people found out from there that they were going to be made redundant, several days before the official announcement. These two webites often have the inside track on stories as they don't sign NDAs. They have a useful place in the online news world.

[nobody]

Anybody receives it from Amazon yet? The rebate has to be postmarked by 3/8 ?!

[jet8810]

I got mine three days after I placed my order :D

[John Hung]

My 1GB CF card was shipped on Tuesday 2/18 from KY and arrived in Southern California on Friday afternoon. So far, I am pretty impressed with Amazon's shipping records. Even with Super Savers free shipping, my orders have always arrived in less than a week.

I will be spending time this afternoon to use the card. Let's hope the card is as good as my 512MB Viking CF card.

[Jonathon Watkins]

Indeed. Pleaes let us know your thoughts on performance etc.

[jet8810]

I got my 1gb Sandisk CF awhile ago, and did some non-scientific performance tests. Using my 256mb Sandisk CF, it takes about 5 and a half seconds to save a picture before you can take another one. Using my 128mb Mr. Flash, it takes about 3 seconds to save a picture before you can take another. Lastly, using the 1gb Sandisk CF, it takes TWO seconds to save a picture before you can take another one! Much better performance then I had imagined! I realize that this is not a very scientific test, but is there any better way I can test it?

[Jonathon Watkins]

Well, off the top of my head, you could time the transfer of 10 x 1Mb files to each CF in your PPC via ActiveSync. Then you could time it takes to transfer 1 x 10Mb file.

You could time how long it takes to take 10 continuous pictures on your camera etc. I don’t know right how now how most transfer times are calculated. But, from you 'unscientific' tests it looks like the 1Gb cards aren’t too bad. :-)

[jet8810]

well...I have retested the unscientific test, and my camera varies every time now! It was 2 seconds on the brand new card, now with the card 2/3 or so filled, takes 5-6 seconds...strange...will try some more scientific tests later.