Imaging pros expect a lot from their equipment and can’t afford to have a component limit their productivity or creativity. That’s where Kingston’s CompactFlash Elite Pro memory cards come in. The newly redesigned Kingston CompactFlash Elite Pro offers a minimum sustained write speed of 133X. The Elite Pro is designed specifically to help advanced amateur or professional photographers get the best performance from their high-end imaging devices and applications.No matter how fast you work, CF Elite Pro can keep pace. With its ultra-fast transfer rates of 25MB/sec. read and 20MB/sec. write, and great capacity, you can capture more continuous, high-resolution images in less time with the Elite Pro than with traditional CompactFlash memory cards. And when it’s time to transfer your largest files, watch them fly your production workflow will be more efficient than ever.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Holding up well as the system disk for OSX
I used this 8G compactflash card with a Syba CF-to-IDE adapter to replace the failed system disk of an Apple iBook. This puts a much higher random IO workload on this card than it is ever likely to experience when used as a camera. The card has been running like a champ. The only quirk of the combination (possibly a problem with the cheap adapter) is that the system cannot resume from sleep.

One thing to bear in mind about speed: This CF card is optimized for the big sequential IO loads of a digital camera. The random write speed, even with IO sizes of 512k, is surprisingly bad. I suspect that the buffering in the card does not have any random IO intelligence and stalls whenever a non-sequential write arrives. Read access (random and sequential) is great. This is a fair tradeoff since the adapter+CF combination was a fraction of the price of an SSD.

5 Stars Good Value For The Size
I have been using this card for awhile and it is a good bargain for the price and size – you can shoot alot on one card even with larger megapixel cameras. On my 5D Mark II it is good for about 250 RAW+JPEG and I am able to get a good round of continuous shooting, depending on what I am shooting I can easily get 8-10 shots before having to wait for the card, which is fine for many things.

On the HD video side of things, it also is fine for shooting clips of 15-30 seconds with no problem (these are the lengths I usually shoot) with minor “catching up.” In other words there will be some clearing so if you are shooting from clip to clip in high action situations it may be a bit slow.

In other words for general shooting where you would like to have larger capacity, it is fine.

It is not a speed demon compared to some other cards and if you are shooting in situations where you really need higher speeds, it may fall short in that department. But overall having one of these in your bag is a good deal, especially when doing things like shotting landscapes, portraits and other things where shooting a series of shots and waiting a few seconds for things to clear are not going to make or break what you are trying to do.

2 Stars Not so affordable
When I decided to buy a Kingston 8GB I was not sure because of the cheap price.

There were actually other more expensive 4GB alternatives. Well, I guess I should have taken one of those

because this one sometimes loose pictures. I use to shot in raw format with Canon EOS 350D and with this

card I cannot be sure 100% of don’t finding any “surprise” once I get back home, like an unreadable file or a damaged file.

At the end I’m going to use it, but when I need affordability, I better use a Sandisk even if is a 1GB one.

1 Star Errors with every use and erased pictures
I just got this card recently and it has given me CF errors every time I have used it. It will let you take varying amounts of pictures before giving an error and erasing all the pictures on the card. A worthless piece of junk. I should have listened to the negative reviews. I’m sticking with SanDisk from here on out.

5 Stars Kingston compact flash memory
I bought this memory card for my Nikon D90 to increase picture storage for trips, vacations etc. I have no problems with it, considering negative reviews I read before buying it which concerned its performance under continuous storage and retrieval sequences. It is able to maintain the rated 4 shots per second for as long as I have wanted to take, with acceptable delay in presentation to the monitor. This is comparable to the SD card which came with the camera. I have not tried filling the card up to see if this performance is maintained for the full capacity of the card, as I normally transfer the pictures to my computer daily.

To summarize, I bought this card for the convenience of large storage, and it has lived up to my expectations.

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Its small enough to fit in a pocket, but why would you ever want to put it there? Whether out on the town or just hanging with friends, the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera captures every experience in stunning 1080p HD video. Stay in focus while youre on the move with integrated image stabilization. Then kick back and watch all the action on your HDTV or share your scene on YouTube with the built-in USB. The Zi8 pocket video camera has all you need to define yourself in high definition.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great Camera, but think about buying it elsewhere!
Great camera, but Amazon sent me one in packaging that had obviously been opened. Was it a used camera? Who knows and that’s the point. If I’m paying for a new camera I want to know its new with sealed packaging. So I sent it back and asked for a NEW one. Got the same thing-packaging had been opened. I kept it b/c I couldn’t wait, but next time I’m going elsewhere for electronics. You might want to do the same…

4 Stars Nifty gadget at good price with packed features
Researched through multiple reviews aka bought with eyes wide open.

- No audio issues or need to upgrade FW

- Good picture quality for indoor recording under florescent light

- Poor picture quality under dimmer indoor lighting

- Good quality with EIS enabled for action recording (soccer game) with 720/60fps

- Shakiness pronounced with 1080p

- Upload to Youtube simple

Expected shortcomings:

- Battery life low. Bought Tekleon TekCharge MP1800 to make up.

- No SDHC card (somehow my impression was it came with 8G). Bought Class 6 Sandisk 16G.

If Flip could capture photos, Flip might rank better in ease of use.

2 Stars Get the Zi6 instead
I have had a Zi6 for a year and found it to be a great little camera. It has been used and abused but works like a champ. Wanted a second camera and figured I would get the latest model the Zi8. In this case I found the Zi8 a big disappointment. The Zi8 uses a Li-Ion battery verses the AA batteries used in the Zi6. With the Zi6 a pocket full of AA batteries kept you shooting video all day. I have two of the Li-Ion batteries and in 90 minutes I have discharged both batteries. The audio on the Zi8 has a lot to be desired. Bottom line: Get a Zi6 before they are all gone. In this case newer ISN’T better!

5 Stars Handy, Fun, Does what I wanted it to.
I am pleased with the Zi8. I have several Sony, Nikon, etc. photo, camera phones and camcorders. This fits in a niche. My first Kodak digital of any kind. Well done. Would have preferred an external SD card slot but 8 GB is plenty for what I do. Battery life is good,too.

2 Stars Lense broke in less than a month
Good product in concept. After a month the lense broke off of the camera. This lense is actually recessed into the camera. For it to fail ment the clips that hold into place snapped off.

Kodak no help in fixing.

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Kodak ZI8 Pocket Video Camera black Its small enough to fit in a pocket, but why would you ever want to put it there? Whether out on the town or just hanging with friends, the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera captures every experience in stunning 1080p HD video. Stay in focus while youre on the move with integrated image stabilization. Then kick back and watch all the action on your HDTV or share your scene on YouTube with the built-in USB. The Zi8 pocket video camera has all you need to define yourself in high definition.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great Camera, but think about buying it elsewhere!
Great camera, but Amazon sent me one in packaging that had obviously been opened. Was it a used camera? Who knows and that’s the point. If I’m paying for a new camera I want to know its new with sealed packaging. So I sent it back and asked for a NEW one. Got the same thing-packaging had been opened. I kept it b/c I couldn’t wait, but next time I’m going elsewhere for electronics. You might want to do the same…

4 Stars Nifty gadget at good price with packed features
Researched through multiple reviews aka bought with eyes wide open.

- No audio issues or need to upgrade FW

- Good picture quality for indoor recording under florescent light

- Poor picture quality under dimmer indoor lighting

- Good quality with EIS enabled for action recording (soccer game) with 720/60fps

- Shakiness pronounced with 1080p

- Upload to Youtube simple

Expected shortcomings:

- Battery life low. Bought Tekleon TekCharge MP1800 to make up.

- No SDHC card (somehow my impression was it came with 8G). Bought Class 6 Sandisk 16G.

If Flip could capture photos, Flip might rank better in ease of use.

2 Stars Get the Zi6 instead
I have had a Zi6 for a year and found it to be a great little camera. It has been used and abused but works like a champ. Wanted a second camera and figured I would get the latest model the Zi8. In this case I found the Zi8 a big disappointment. The Zi8 uses a Li-Ion battery verses the AA batteries used in the Zi6. With the Zi6 a pocket full of AA batteries kept you shooting video all day. I have two of the Li-Ion batteries and in 90 minutes I have discharged both batteries. The audio on the Zi8 has a lot to be desired. Bottom line: Get a Zi6 before they are all gone. In this case newer ISN’T better!

5 Stars Handy, Fun, Does what I wanted it to.
I am pleased with the Zi8. I have several Sony, Nikon, etc. photo, camera phones and camcorders. This fits in a niche. My first Kodak digital of any kind. Well done. Would have preferred an external SD card slot but 8 GB is plenty for what I do. Battery life is good,too.

2 Stars Lense broke in less than a month
Good product in concept. After a month the lense broke off of the camera. This lense is actually recessed into the camera. For it to fail ment the clips that hold into place snapped off.

Kodak no help in fixing.

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