hi.. just a question.. does the new 4G card mentioned that it supports all CF card based cameras ? :think:
Dear Posters,
Just came back from Siem Reap today, extremely disappointed. I had purchased a Kingston 4GB Elite Pro 45X (the one with the chameleon on it) for my Canon 300D and was hoping to get some wonderful pictures of Angkor and Bayon. Which I did. I got close to about 500 shots before the compact flash card failed. There was around 600 plus shots or so remaining.
What happened was everytime when I tried to shoot, I get an image corrupted error and you could see the camera trying to find or read the image but it just drew a blank. The pictures I take after that would appear but then just slowly fade altogether. The display would show something like stripes then dissapear. I was also unable to view all my earlier photos that I took. The camera would be struggling to find the images (red light blinking) but nothing appears eventually. I tried deleting all the images that had been corrupted cos I thought that they might be jamming up the camera, but still I encountered the same problem.
I was fortunate to still have my trusty 1GB Hagiwara card and continued shooting, but the worry of losing all my precious images was haunting me for the rest my trip. Much of my concentration was affected too and I was really distracted by what had happened so far. I got back to the hotel to try the card again a couple of times but still the card did not display any images. I just got back home and fortunately I managed to recover my images! The thing which amazes me even more, is that the card now seems to be working. I think there must be some issues with consistency due to the inconsistent results I am getting. This is the first time that I am encountering such an issue, so i think there must be some problems with this card or some bad sectors somewhere.
The best thing was after I bought my card, I bumped into Nic from the Camera Workshop, he told me that this particular Kingston CF card had lots of problems but I was thinking how sway can you be right? First time you buy and then it crashes or hangs on you, highly unlikely right? absolutely wrong! It happened to me after my first 500 shots and I was hugely disappointed with the reliability of Kingston and would never purchase them anymore. Even my old regular 1GB Hagiwara lasted me without any problems and I was lucky I had it with me. I thought CF technology would have improved by now, how wrong i was with Kingson! I will try to go get it exchanged, but now it seems to be working so i don't know what to say to the guy in the store but i am convinced that the card is screwed. At best I will try to swap for some other brands. Even if they give me a new one, I will seriously have doubts about it's reliability, and not want to use it anymore.
Please beware of this product. Bring along a hard drive to store your pictures for insurance as well as other CF cards with you. Has any of you Club Snappers faced the same problems or do you think that I am just one of those "lucky" few who happened to strike "gold" at the first attempt? You comments are most welcome.
Thanks,
Nawin
hi.. just a question.. does the new 4G card mentioned that it supports all CF card based cameras ? :think:
Gee. That's really bad to learn about Kingston products of your unfortunate incident. I guess the manufacturer allows you to capture up to 500 images and the rest is free lunch for the chameleon. Cheer up buddy. Thanks for sharing. I will never buy Kingston products.
I have a 4GB Transcend 120x... but its a lot slower than my Lexar 80x....time to stick with other more reliable brands. Transcend should be good as well.
Firstly, to fully use all 4GB of space in the card, the camera must support FAT32. Some of the older CF-based cameras may only support FAT16 (max size = 2GB).
Also, there is the question of compatibility, which is difficult to gauge unless you try it out yourself. The manufacturers are not always helpful because they don't always update their compatibility charts for their older cameras when new media sizes are released.
Maybe can search around to see if anyone with your camera has tried it out.
I don't think the problem's just with Kingston - something similar happened to me with a Lexar 2GB CF card, and also in Angkor. (Hey.. maybe there's something in the Angkor air.......)
Really?? happened to me there too. i forgot my spare and my battery was down to 1 bar..had to borrow a spare from another photographer hahahaha..... twilight zone?....
I was at the La Phrom temple (the one with giant trees eating up the temples) when i discovered that i didnt charge my "spare battery" and so was unable to shoot anything there ..... but strangely after when I reached AW for the sunset, my "dead" batteries could fire up another 100 shots! .......:sweat: