SanDisk 16GB 60MB/s Extreme Compact Flash Card SDCFX-016G-A61
Dec 28, 2009 in
Electronics
- Compatible with CompactFlash-enabled devices Including digital SLR cameras.
- 16GB storage space For storing photos, videos, games and more.
- Power core controller For moving data efficiently.
- 60MB/sec. write and read speeds Captures pictures taken in rapid succession.
Product Description
Get exactly the shots you want with professional-grade SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash cards. With fast read/write speeds, you’ll see it takes more than a great digital SLR camera to bring your ideas to life. And with 16GB of space, you’ll have room to capture it all in RAW+JPEG, and save the editing for later.SanDisk engineered its Power Core Controller to take whatever your camera’s buffer can dish out. By distributing image data across the card more rapidly and efficiently, this card delivers professional performance…. More >>
SanDisk 16GB 60MB/s Extreme Compact Flash Card SDCFX-016G-A61
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5 comments
Donna on December 28, 2009 at 11:29 am
Product definitely does the job, however, when we order it from Digital Media Source we had all kinds of problems. We ended up having to order item from another source that was more reliable and who understood that customers expect to get what they ordered vs getting incorrect item. In our case, we needed the card expedited and were really surprised when source shipped wrong item. They told us via email that they would pay $2.00 to cover returning the item back to them but they lied and we never obtained shipping refund until Amazon backed our purchase and helped solve the problem from their side. Thank you Amazon!!!!
Nguyen Xuan Hoa on December 28, 2009 at 12:58 pm
No complaint for this high quality CF card. Very satisfied. In the past, I used Kingston 4GB 133X but I was unable to do full-HD video due to the speed (mycamera can process HD-video for only about 5 secs then stop due to the fact – it cannot write the data in buffer memory to the CF card). That’s the reason for me to purchase this expensive and speedy CF Card.
Build quality of this card is high, very solid with strong & good feeling on hand. Transfer rate was exceptional if i transfer directly from camera to PCs via USB 2.0 cable (around 15-20Mb/sec). I don’t have a “fast enough” CF card reader to work with this CF Card but i will try to find one(that’s why currently i do direct transfer between camera & PCs. It will save you a lot of minutes). For 16Gb of data of image, it will take me approx 33 minutes for the old Kingston 133x CF Card to transfer to the PC – while this one takes about 3-4 minutes.
Busy Executive on December 28, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I had been using SanDisk Extreme III (30 MB/s) in my Nikon digital SLR, and while they were reliable and so on, I was never able to get the full high speed frame rate Nikon promises. Instead of the 5-7 frames per second, I was getting more like 2-3.
Switching to the 60MB/s fixed that problem, and now I’m getting the full performance my camera is capable of…at least 5 fps under most conditions.
Interestingly, I also purchased a smaller card capable of 90MB/s, and saw no real difference, so I’m considering the 60MB/s version ideal – nice, since it’s much less expensive than the faster cards.
Recommended if you need the best frame rate out of your camera.
A. Beckstedt on December 28, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Very fast card and Sandisk has always been reliable. This card is the fastest card that I have owned yet. I have had a regular card, an extreme II, and also an extreme III. I needed this card for the high speed burst shots from a 18 megapixel raw camera. Highly recommended. Just make sure you shop for the best deal as they range in price quite a bit and usually are the same thing.
PD on December 28, 2009 at 6:03 pm
I started in 2005 with the Ultra II series and have continually sold & upgraded as my needs dictated. I’m now using a Canon 5D Mark II which had HD video (I think we all know that), but also creates a 30mb RAW file every time I snap the shutter. I was using the Extreme IV series cards (45mb/sec), and even at the slower 4fps in the 5D2, the camera would hang after a few shots to write the data. Now with these new 16gb Extreme cards I get to hold down the shutter button and record WAY more images before the buffer starts to hold things up. What an improvement! This new series is worth every dollar. Remember, faster cards also give you longer battery life since the data writes faster, so that’s another plus to these new Extreme cards. They are UDMA level 5 which is nice (the 5D2 handles up to 6). BTW, UDMA simply means that the card does a lot of the file processing, which gets you faster write speed. Non-UDMA cards make the camera do all the work when writing images to the card. If you have a UDMA-enabled camera, by all means get UDMA-enabled cards.
One last thing to help clear confusion on the card naming format: the 133X and 300X and all that simply means the speed that the card can write data. SanDisk doesn’t use that prominently in their marketing, they tend to say “30mb/sec” or “60mb/sec”, like that. Lexar uses the ###X format all the time. So when shopping around, keep this in mind:
SanDisk Ultra II: 15mb/sec – Lexar calls it 133X (this older model is NON-UDMA)
SanDisk Extreme IV: 45mb/sec – Lexar calls it 300X
SanDisk’s New Extreme: 60mb/sec – Lexar will call it 400X
SanDisk’s New Extreme Pro: 90mb/sec – Lexar will call it 600X
Hope that helps understand all of this!