Problem with viking 258mb compact flash

i have a 128mb card from Kingston. it works fine in my CP5700. it is too bad that i jumped on that deal from Amazon too soon. I hope my replacement will work okay. otherwise, i am going to get my refund.

Dan

CheapBastid said:

I've had very little luck in regards to my 4500 and had a long and
difficult saga in getting the deal I did on the camera. I'm worn
out and just want a working card so I'm returning mine to Amazon
and getting another brand.

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I hope I am not speaking too soon. received my replacement card from Viking yesterday. so far so good. it seems to be working fine. it has a different marking on the edge (different batch???)

Dan

My two Viking 256 have been working great since I got them a month ago...May be a bad manufacturing "run"??

Pam

Danny Tsui said:

I hope I am not speaking too soon. received my replacement card
from Viking yesterday. so far so good. it seems to be working
fine. it has a different marking on the edge (different batch???)

Dan

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I'm not sure if mine is working okay or not, I've only had it for a few days and have formatted it. It is definitely much slower than the starter 16mg card. On 2272 x 1704 and at Fine resolution it takes between 8 and 12 seconds to write to the card before it is ready again. I have received no error messages. This seems pretty slow to me but I'm not sure. Is that normal? Should I get a replacement card from Amazon? Should I return it and get a different brand?
Any help would be appreciated.

Same problem here. Just started using my Viking 128mb CF and sometimes I get errors. I've heard of people formating them in a card reader and then being fine, any ideas?

ireno said:

PSA said:

Peter

aabeigi said:

I just got a coolpix 4500 and ordered the viking 256mb compact
flash card from amazon since it was so cheap. Unfortunatley, most
of the time the camera gives me a "This Card Cannot Be Used" error
message on my LCD. I have a scandisk 128mb and it seems to work
fine and I just got a simpletech 256mb card and it seems to work
too. Anyone else having problems with the viking card?

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I have had no problems whatsoever with the Viking 256 card in either the CP 885 nor the CP 4300. You must have gotten a bad one. Gary

What is an average amount of time it should take to save a full fine jpg image from the CP 4500 to the card??? I have a Viking 128 card and was wondering if the same problems that happen with the 256 card happen with the 128 card, i.e., do they have the sane chipset?

GLP said:

I have had no problems whatsoever with the Viking 256 card in
either the CP 885 nor the CP 4300. You must have gotten a bad one.
Gary

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OK this is a follow up to my original post about about the viking 128 mb card in the CP4500 taking 7 seconds to write a full fine image. Ive decided to purchase the Simpletech 128 MB card (two of them), does anyone have any experience with these cards in the CP4500??? Also, what do you think the new firmware version being released for the CP4500 will do for CF write speeds? Do you think a RAW function will be added and the manual focus problem will be fixed? And when will the new firmware be available to existing camera owners, seeing that new cameras are already being shipped with v1.2???

TIA

Alex

Alex Reynolds said:

GLP said:

I have had no problems whatsoever with the Viking 256 card in
either the CP 885 nor the CP 4300. You must have gotten a bad one.
Gary

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Alex,

I have a CP5K and 2- 64MB Lexar's, 2- 128 MB Simple Techs, and 1- 256 MB Viking, and here are my results:

I have experienced the unformattable or unreadable results with both of the Lexar 64's. One of the two I can still write to, but I have to reformat it in my 2500, and it still gives me error messages, but it records the images, and I am able to download them through a CF reader. The other 64 MB Lexar is dead.

The 128 Simple Techs have been steady, reliable, but slow, slow, slow!

The 256 Viking has been a star. I can download a full Viking 256 in less time than it takes me to download a full Simple Tech 128. The performance of both Simple Techs appears to be nearly identical.

My Viking also has "THNC256MM (102 AB) JAPAN 0145KK" written on the end. I love my Viking, and I'm going to get another, but probably a 512 MB version.

Ward Larson

Alex Reynolds said:

TIA

Alex

Alex Reynolds said:

GLP said:

I have had no problems whatsoever with the Viking 256 card in
either the CP 885 nor the CP 4300. You must have gotten a bad one.
Gary

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I have the same problem with a Viking 512MB card. Problem is intermittent. The card seems to work if I take pictures slowly but seems to get warm and fail if I take 3 or more pictures in quick sucession.

Ben 775 5000

I have the Viking 512 MB and it gave me an error message a few pictures after the 200th one. I had to remove the camera batteries to turn off the camera and then I could take another photo - of course to shoot the next one I had to remove the batteries....

Viking Tech support told me my card was defective and they replaced it. Of course, the exchange cost ME over $5 in shipping charges, which still has me seething.

I have not yet snapped hundreds of photos on the new card, that's my task for this weekend.

Rose

aabeigi said:

I just got a coolpix 4500 and ordered the viking 256mb compact
flash card from amazon since it was so cheap. Unfortunatley, most
of the time the camera gives me a "This Card Cannot Be Used" error
message on my LCD. I have a scandisk 128mb and it seems to work
fine and I just got a simpletech 256mb card and it seems to work
too. Anyone else having problems with the viking card?

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If you have WindowsXP try formating in your reader as Windows makes your reader as a drive you can even do a scandisk there but then format it again in the camera! I had this problem with an off brand myself and formatting it in XP helped as my CP5700 said that there was not card in my camera but i fixed that with a format from XP then a format in the CP5700 Good luck to ya! Lamont :> )