Product Description

Lexar Media's Professional Series CompactFlash is designed to speed up image transfer times by taking advantage of a Digital SLR camera's high-speed processor. Capable of sustained write speeds of 12 mb per second, making the CompactFlash cards ideal for any photographer who demands optimal performance from the card and camera they use.Write Acceleration Technology (WA) allows digital cameras and CompactFlash cards to work together perfectly to pass and store images more quickly and achieve image-write speeds never before possible.

Product Details

• Brand: Lexar
• Model: CF512-80-380
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 4.00" w x 1.50" l, .13 pounds

Features

• 100% Camera Compatibility Guaranteed, Plus a Lifetime Limited Warranty
• Professional Series Compact Flash with Write Acceleration Technology
• Speed rated at 80x (12 Mbps)
• Bundled with Image Rescue 2.0 & 30 day Trial of Photo Mechanic 4.0

Customer Reviews

First or Second Edition?
Great card...if you are actually purchasing the "Second Edition". Recent research into the performance of these cf cards revealed some important information. The Lexar 80x Pro Second Edition cards have "...substantially better performance...due to firmware upgrade...". There is some confusion as to which card you may actually be purchasing. Go to: Rob Galbraith.com, and read the article regarding the same/similar packaging of the product; "Lexar on 80X second edition availability", posted 11/11/2004. Lexar is in the process of changing the logo on the packaging of the Second Edition cards, but this will not be apparent until 1st qtr 2005.

Owners of first edition cards can have them exchanged by Lexar for second edition cards of the same capacity by contacting Lexar Professional Tech Support at (510)413-1233 or support@lexar.com. The exchange is free of charge.

The above is courtesy of Rob Galbraith's web site...Thanks Rob!

My experience with the 40x card...
Before you purchase this card, make sure that your camera supports the Write Acceleration Technology. I purchased Lexar's 40x 256MB card (with Write Acceleration) about a year ago for my Minolta DiMage 7Hi camera, and realized my camera did not support the new technology. The CF card still worked, but there was no increase in speed over other cards.

I checked Lexar's website, and it said that my camera does not support the Write Acceleration technology. The link is here: http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/wa_cf.html

Current (as of this review) cameras supporting WA technology:
- All Kodak Professional cameras and pro camera backs, such as the DCS Pro Back 645, DCS Pro Back Plus, DCS 720x, DCS 760, DCS 760m and DCS 14n
- Nikon D1x, D1h, D-100 (Requires camera firmware upgrade by Nikon. See Nikon's web page for more details) and D2h
- Sanyo DSC-MZ3
- Sigma SD-9
- Sigma SD10
- Pentax *ist D
- Olympus E1

Lexar USB Card Reader (included... note: this was with my 40x card. you may or may not experience the same issue.):
- Works only with Lexar CF Cards. Attempted to use with SanDisk and Kingston CF Cards but did not work. Should not be a problem if you only use Lexar products. However, if you do, consider buying a separate card reader.


For a full breakdown of how many pictures you can take with different card capacities, go to http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/capacity_chart.html

Wow this baby is fast...
I replaced a Viking 128Mb card with this one and it feels like I bought a brand new camera. It saves the photograph and returns me to photo-taking mode in about ½ a second. Plus it holds 4x as many pictures so I no longer need to lug a laptop computer along on vacation to store our pictures. The price of these high speed cards has really come down lately. No excuse not to have at least a 512Mb one.