Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5056 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: SanDisk
• Model: SDCFX3-016G-E31
• Released on: 2006-11-26
• Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, .17 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash is designed for serious professional photographers who demand one of the fastest, most rugged, and most durable memory cards on the market. Professional photographers who work under less than ideal conditions expect more from a flash memory card. More speed. More performance. More reliability. SanDisk's new Extreme III card delivers everything you want plus a whole lot more!That's because only SanDisk Extreme III memory cards feature innovative ESP Technology for the fastest speeds and highest performance. ESP stands for "Enhanced Super-Parallel Processing". Simply put, it means you are getting the fastest read/write speeds available - an amazing minimum 20MB per second sequential read and write speed - speed you'll definitely appreciate whenever you find yourself shooting and storing pictures in harsh environments, extreme temperatures or at high altitudes.Rely on SanDisk Extreme III cards when speed is critical to getting the right shot.

Customer Reviews

sandisk 8GB and 16GB compact flash cards
I've used Sandisk extreme III cards for a couple of years or so now and found them to be reliable and plenty fast enough in transfer rate in its use with my canon eos 5d Mk 1 and MkII cameras.

Enough speed for a 40d
Using this with my Canon 40d I can take full speed JPG photos more or less indefinitely at full speed which is excellent at events. It arrives over-packaged; only thing i kept from the box; case, manual, warranty card was the cf card itself.

16 Gb is really good capacity for a 40d; its high enough that my camera stays on 999 photos in raw mode for hundreds of photos before dropping off and was a better choice price-wise than the high capacity cards.

Bucket loads of storage...
Well what can I say, it's fast and it's huge (in storage).

I use this in my Nikon D300. I believe the D300 supports the extra high write speed so it could take advantage of the Extreme IV, but I cannot justify the price of an Extreme IV.

The Extreme III keeps up with me and the D300. The D300 does have a very generous buffer, which helps, but I've never found myself in the situation where I had to wait for the camera to clear its buffer. You're more likely to have to wait for an external flash gun to recover.