Known good memory cards for 555?

Dan Wells · Jan 9, 2004

What memory cards do people have good luck with?-I love my 555 and want a 512 or a couple of 256s to go with it(been using a 128, which is not ideal on a 5MP camera). Are Lexars a good bet-I've seen the SanDisk horror stories on here!

-Dan

brianj · Jan 9, 2004

I have had total reliability with the Sandisk 512mb std, but this link provides some food for thought on reliability and speed:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1023&message=7211602

Brian

wazza · Jan 9, 2004

In my Optio 450 and my daughters 550

1. Sandisk 128 fine apart from two error readings
2. Sandisk 256 Ultra major lockups and error reading
3. Panasonic 128 fine
4. Muse (Panasonic OEM) fine
5. Lexar 256 fine

Cheers

brianj said:
I have had total reliability with the Sandisk 512mb std, but this
link provides some food for thought on reliability and speed:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1023&message=7211602

Brian

whyz · Jan 9, 2004

I use a Panasonic 256 meg card, haven't had any problem with it.

Dan Wells said:
What memory cards do people have good luck with?-I love my 555 and
want a 512 or a couple of 256s to go with it(been using a 128,
which is not ideal on a 5MP camera). Are Lexars a good bet-I've
seen the SanDisk horror stories on here!

-Dan

Valkiam · Jan 9, 2004

I use the panasonic 256 meg, I saw it at Ritz cammera but it was discounted, since I live in Mexico but was in a trip in the US, I opted to buy it in the mall, because with the discount the prices where almost the same as in the net.

I've compared writing speeds with many other cards (allegedly faster) and found them to be the same. In other words, Highly recommended

David.

Jim Dawson · Jan 9, 2004

Dan Wells said:
What memory cards do people have good luck with?-I love my 555 and
want a 512 or a couple of 256s to go with it(been using a 128,
which is not ideal on a 5MP camera). Are Lexars a good bet-I've
seen the SanDisk horror stories on here!

-Dan

--
Canon 1D, Pentax Optio 555, and G-III QL (yes - film)

MThrower · Jan 9, 2004

I have two Panasonic 256MB cards and haven't had any problems either.

whyz said:
Dan Wells said:

What memory cards do people have good luck with?-I love my 555 and
want a 512 or a couple of 256s to go with it(been using a 128,
which is not ideal on a 5MP camera). Are Lexars a good bet-I've
seen the SanDisk horror stories on here!

-Dan

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GordonBGood · Jan 10, 2004

Dan Wells said:
What memory cards do people have good luck with?-I love my 555 and
want a 512 or a couple of 256s to go with it(been using a 128,
which is not ideal on a 5MP camera). Are Lexars a good bet-I've
seen the SanDisk horror stories on here!

I use a Lexar 256 without any HS markings on it, and seem to get the same results in camera as the referenced tests got with the Sandisk Ultra II memory: about 11.5 seconds to take and write a TIFF image. I'm sure that a USB 2.0 or Firewire memory reader would see the difference, but the camera can't use the extra speed. Most good brand names of 256 MB SD memory (except Sandisk in less than Ultra) will have about the same speed as this, which estimate as about 20X in sustained write (3 MBytes per second).

The real question is then which give the best reliability.

My Lexar has been good and I've heard good things about Simpletech and Panasonic.

Regards, GordonBGood

konfucius · Jan 10, 2004

I can not recommend the SanDisk Ultra II, since two of these stopped working for me, I switched to Lexar 32x 256MB and it has worked perfectly so far. It's about almost as fast as the Ultra II card.

I also have standard SanDisk 128 MB witch also works fine, but it's much slower.

Ernesto Cardenas · Jan 10, 2004

Hi:

I have 3 cards with my Optio 555:
-16 MB Panasonic (comes with the Camera)

-128 MB No Brand (i get this, because it was the cheaper card offered by Nomatica.com, since the cameras and cards are more expensive in Europe).
-256 Lexar, i get this because a friend was in USA.....

The best of them: Lexar without a doubt, the recovery time after take a picture is the shortest.
The Worst: The No Brand......

I haven't had any reability problems with any of the three cards, my only issue with the nobrand is the speed.

best regards
Ernesto

GordonBGood said:
The real question is then which give the best reliability.
My Lexar has been good and I've heard good things about Simpletech
and Panasonic.

Regards, GordonBGood

tenbsmith · Jan 12, 2004

bump for a good thread.

Wish there was a way to view the whole thread at once.

konfucius said:
I can not recommend the SanDisk Ultra II, since two of these
stopped working for me, I switched to Lexar 32x 256MB and it has
worked perfectly so far. It's about almost as fast as the Ultra II
card.

I also have standard SanDisk 128 MB witch also works fine, but it's
much slower.

tenbsmith · Jan 12, 2004

Anyone have experience with 'Dane Elec' cards? It says Dane Elec on the card but perhaps thats short for Dane Electronics.

Dan Wells · Jan 12, 2004

My summary of the thread so far:

The only reliability problems are with SanDisk cards (and one "no brand" card, which could EASILY be a SanDisk by any other name). Anyone having reliability issues with anything else, please let us know!

The camera DOES care about "high speed" cards, but not so much about the differences between high speed cards.

The Lexar standard speed card (unlike the SanDisk) is actually a fairly fast card.

Lexar and Panasonic cards are used by a lot of people and seem to be good bets.

Anyone disagreeing with any of this-please post.

-Dan

brianj · Jan 12, 2004

I agree with the info.

But I went to a local camera shop yesterday to check availability of Lexar 512 32x which he said would have to be specially ordered in, so I asked an approximate price which he looked up and exclaimed would be about $AU800. I was in total shock, as the Sandisk 512 std is about $AU350 -400 in Australia when available.

In fact the larger cards are all scarce at the moment after the Christmas rush. Luckily I am not desperate for one.

Also I think I will have to stick to the lower price slower card due to price. P.S. online shopping is not much cheaper in Australia than the best camera shops, but I could purchase from overseas I suppose.

Brian

carlfi · Jan 12, 2004

Dan Wells said:
My summary of the thread so far:

The only reliability problems are with SanDisk cards (and one "no
brand" card, which could EASILY be a SanDisk by any other name).
Anyone having reliability issues with anything else, please let us
know!

The camera DOES care about "high speed" cards, but not so much
about the differences between high speed cards.

The Lexar standard speed card (unlike the SanDisk) is actually a
fairly fast card.

Lexar and Panasonic cards are used by a lot of people and seem to
be good bets.

I have a Sandisk 256M card and a Lexar 256M card. Both work fine in the camera but my card reader distorts some of the images from the Sandisk. This does not seem to be a problem except when the card is a little warm. These distortions (a portion of the image looks like one of the color filters was applied to it) do not show up on the camera's LCD during playback. I agree that Lexar and Panasonic would be safe bets. Carl

Dan Wells said:
Anyone disagreeing with any of this-please post.

-Dan

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