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User Submitted SanDisk SDCFX3-016G-A31 16 GB Extreme III CompactFlash Card (Retail Package) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-03-28 This will work in a Canon 20/30/5D You can't format the card in the camera. The camera in theory only supports 8gb cards, but it will recognize the 16gb card. HOWEVER, it will format the 16gb card as 8gb. If you use a card reader attached to a computer to format the card, it will remain at 16gb and the camera will continue to see it as 16gb. Word of caution... for most situations, multiple smaller cards are better. It's great you can get 1000s of images on a single card, but what happens if the card fails? Even high quality cards fail. 16gb cards are great for high-end uses, but for normal shooting (particularly if it's over several days) you really should use smaller cards. I do time lapse photography, so I shoot several thousand frames over a few hours. The card works great for this. Would I use this to shoot a weeks worth of vacation photos? No way. Use smaller cards for that and offload them to the computer frequently. Date: 2007-03-16 Truly Amazing... I purchased this memory card, not for a camera, but for a pocket pc, specifically a Dell Axim x51v. I must say that this high capacity card is truly amazing. Both my computer and my Axim recognized the full 15.26 GB of space and when copying 12 GB of music to the card, it took less than an hour. It is beastly fast, immensely large, and for the price, it was well worth it. Just for camera enthusiasts. Beware of buying too much memory because I believe most cameras, like my Rebel XT max out at 999 available shots. Date: 2006-12-14 Check camera compatibility!!! It's great to have a card of this capacity, however, be sure that your camera is compatible with it. I have a Canon EOS 5D and the camera will only take an 8 GB card or less!!! Not a lot for 13 megapixels if you're shooting in RAW. Go to the SanDisk website and you will be able to see if your camera will support this card. I've been extremely happy with past SanDisk products and I'm sure this card is fantastic in the right equipment... When I first put the card into the camera, it showed it would shoot 977 RAW images, but as soon as the card was formatted, it wouldn't shoot more than 499 images and the available space on the card was indicating that it was an 8 GB card. Very disappointing, but again, not the fault of SanDisk. I called Canon and, presently, there is no "fix" for this.
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