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, CompactFlash Elite Pro can keep pace. With ultra-fast transfer rates and up to 16 GB capacity, you can capture more continuous, high-resolution images in less time with the Elite Pro than with traditional CompactFlash memory cards. And when you need to transfer your largest files, your production workflow will be more efficient than ever. The Kingston 16 GB Elite Pro CompactFlash card is backed by a limited lifetime warranty.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Not bad at all…
Bought this to breathe life into an old iPod Mini. The microdrive died and I discovered that a CF card is basically the same thing, just flash memory vs a moving disc. While this card might not be the fastest, it works perfecty as storage media for my iPod Mini. It must be fast enough to handle me flipping through my playlists, because I haven’t encountered any issues with it lagging yet.

3 Stars Good but not for HDSLR
This is a very cheap and good card but not to be used for HDSLR or DSLR. The reason is very simple that this card is too slow. Let me explain this in a simple way the write speed of this card is 133x or 20mb/s (Value of X = 150 Kbps, so 133 times 150kbps) should be good enough for a general use in a DSLR with burst of 3 or 4 fps shooting with no HD video..

I bought it for Canon EOS 7D with 8fps shooting and capable of recording True HD Video at variable frame rates. This card is fine till it is around 3-4 GB full but beyond that the buffer gets filled up and the camera will display “Busy” massage after each shot or Video recording.

If you want to use your card for HDSLR then my suggestion would be to buy at least a card with UDMA capabilities and or 30mb/s+ speed to be on a safer side.

5 Stars Best Value Price

Excellent, best value/price, very fast and reliable.

I highly recomend this product and the seller. Well packed, on time delivery and no surprise charges.

2 Stars Slow! Can’t use it all
This card is fine for normal use, just don’t fill it more than 50% or else it becomes EXTREMELY slow! Sports, kids playing, out of the question. Holidays, portraits, fine art (which I do) should be fine. But really, a better option would be to get a couple 4 or 8 gb cards instead of this one. Cheaper and better reliability and speed. I kind of regret getting this card. Size isn’t everything. Performance is MUCH more important.

4 Stars Good Card
Lots of space, works fast enough to do 1080p video on my canon, perfectly reliable so far.

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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 up to 32GB 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

5 Stars great value
The CF card works well, and the transfer speed is satisfactory. Great value for the price!

2 Stars Skips and buffers
I bought two to replace my 16GB PQIs which are 120x and rarely buffers. Both replacement 133x 32GB skips and buffers every so often and pauses when I need to review. The straight copy/write speed is good but its between operations that it’s slow. I use a Canon 7D to record mostly in 1080 24fps, its worrying when I see the buffer icon go all the way to max when I’m scrambling to catch an event happening now. For staged shots this is okay. For run-and-gun I’m keeping my PQIs.

4 Stars Great card for the price
This card is great for pictures and video, yes I know this it not the best card ever in compare with the UDMA cards, but is enough for my works.

5 Stars A Canon 5D, Rebel XT/350 RAW+JPG user
A GREAT BUY. USED SINCE JUNE 2009.

I’m going to buy another one again for my new Canon 7D camera which I got for this Christmas season. I have used this card in my Canon 5D and Canon Rebel XT without fail doing time lapse videos (thousands of pics brought into a movie) and travel photography. Not a single point of failure. This is an Amazon verified purchase. In other words, I BOUGHT THIS and I USE IT. Enough said.

Don Sausa

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5 Stars Great, inexpensive card for my Canon 7D
I bought this to shoot video on my Canon 7D and I am thoroughly pleased. Excellent price and speed. I will buy more of these.

Buy/More Info

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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