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AA AAA smart fast charger and reconditioner
Nice charger that comes with 4 AA2700 mah nimh rechargeable batteries. It will power the Flip real well. Better to recharge then use alkaline throw aways. It also comes with a 3 year warranty and free battery holder

You get what you pay for...
I'll have to admit, I've owned this camera for a few years & it honestly has been a decent camera. We've taken many pictures, pretty good ones & have gotten a lot of use out of it. Unfortunately, we've also bought A LOT of batteries & wasted a lot of time waiting for the flash and/or figuring out the flash cadence, taking about 10 pictures of organized family Christmas joy just to get one good one to send to friends & relatives.

However, I am just an amateur photographer, mainly taking pictures of my unused, unwanted crap to sell on ebay & craigslist rather than of friendly outings, concerts & myspace photos, half the time forgetting to even bring the camera or being too lazy to get it out of my wife's purse. If you're looking for a decent, cheap camera just to say you have one, this is the one for you. If you're looking to take photographs of your favorite bands just to make it on their myspace page, calling yourself a photographer, their are much better cameras out there.

decent
Took pictures and never broke on me, but the batteries are ridiculous. As noted, they are spent quickly. Also the pictures ALWAYS turn out fuzzy and blurry, maybe I am doing something wrong but the quality is very poor. Color and focus are frequently messed up as well. Does take video fine and zoom works well, just not great quality. I am upgrading to a better camera that actually takes a picture instead of a blur.

Good camera, but more is spent on batteries than the camera itself
I got this camera for my birthday two years ago and I loved it! It takes really good pictures and it has an automatic stabilizer so if the camera is moving, the picture won't come out blurry. The only bad thing about this camera is that it eats up batteries really quick. If you buy non brand batteries, the camera won't even turn on. So you usually end up spending more money buying the more expensive batteries just so the camera would work.

I still use the camera to this day. Unfortunately I dropped it by accident last summer so the screen gets black here and there, but it's still a good camera. Just make sure you have enough money to buy extra batteries.

Not even a good starter camera
I have disliked this camera from the moment I first used it. Unfortunately I didn't do any research before buying it, I bought it spontaneously at WalMart for about 0. It eats up the batteries really fast, if the batteries aren't brand new, forget getting any kind of decent picture if the lighting isn't perfect. I am going to sell this thing on ebay for whatever I can get out of it. If somebody offers me a dollar, I'll take it. I would like to say that this is a great starter camera, but I am sure there are cameras out there on the market for the same price, or cheaper, that take better pics and don't eat batteries.

An average camera!
This is an ok camera in my opinion. Not a bad camera, just didn't meet my standards! When I first got it I was just so excited to have a camera since my last one was stolen, that I loved it. After a while of using it I noticed a few flaws that I was dissappointed with! At times the flash can be really harsh, and if you turn the flash off, you are 90% guarenteed to have a blurry picture! The 10% chance of a decent picture is if it is completly still like on self timer mode, but still the quality just isn't that great with out the flash. Close ups are not much of an option!! I like to take pictures of flowers but that was near impossible with this camera, you couldn't get close enough without it being blurry and over exposed from the flash! But on a good note, I have gotten some good pics from this camera, it's easy to use and it's not too big. It's a good choice if you just wanna take average photos of friends and family and just everyday life, but for those artistic photographs I love to take, I just wasn't satisfied. I am now lookig for another camera to meet my needs!

great Polariod Digital
great camera lite weight, great zoom,clear crisp screen, all around great buy

PDC-5070BD
This camera is truely a point and shoot camera. Very simple to use. With 30 seconds of instruction anyone can use this camera. It provides very nice resolution and picture reproduction. Remember this is a camera priced under 0 so it doesn't have the features of the 0 plus cameras. It is very easy to down load the pictures with the USB cable that comes with the camera. You need to upgrade the memory card if you want the video capability of the camera.
A great value for the price

Nice camera needs a little patience
I think this is a very nive camera it take beautiful pictures and it is fairly easy to use the main downfall is when you zoom, it doesn't do it very clearly, the more you zoom the less distiction there is in the picture. But all in all I am very pleased with my choice.

underwater waterproof case
great product, really works well. used it numerous times already and has never failed me. great price, great product

Love It.
I use the CompactFlash for my Nikon D2xs - it is fast. The access light on the camera blinks once and the image is transferred to CF memory. This helps when you are shooting in continuous mode. Although the camera buffer still fills up faster than writing to CF memory, a little pause in shooting will empty out the buffer.

Fast for now
This card is so fast and so well suited to the Sony Alpha 700, that I set the camera to shoot JPEGs at high speed and use it to make movies!
If you buy from Amazon affiliate Adorama (B&H too) in 2008 and by a certain date, there is an $[...] rebate on this card.
Being a "pro" card simply means it is fast and more durable.
If you never ever shoot sports or animals, get the 8GB 133x CF on sale or if they have a rebate on that, and save some money.

Fantastic Speed
The Lexar Pro. UDMA is a perfect match for my Nikon D300. I couldn't be happier.

Fastest CF card we've ever used in a camera, BUT WE LIKE IT MORE TO BOOT XP /GREAT SSD ALTERNATIVE !


NOTE: This reviewer used an Addonics SATA adapter to facilitate booting XP (IDE version picture / visit their web site for the SATA version ) Dual Slots Cf HDD Adapter.

+++ PROS +++
1. FASTEST CF CARD ON THE MARKET AS OF THIS DATE
2. TYPE 1, thinnest form factor for easy fit into any CF camera or adapter -including all PCMCIA adapters
3. Lifetime Warranty, Lexar does have a reputation for card failures but their replacement procedure is fairly easy, much easier than trying to get an iPod replaced by Apple.
4. Fairly inexpensive for an 8GB card
5. Increase the speed and authenticity of your notebook for sales or technology demo's since running this CF on SATA is comparable to an enterprise server as far as Disk I/O

-- CONS --
1. HARD TO THINK OF ANY NEGATIVES IF USING IT FOR A CAMERA CARD
2. If using it to boot your XP system partition, remember that CF suffers from wear limits, typically 100,000 writes will "burn out" the flash cells, BUT WEAR LEVELING is supposed to mitigate this so that writes are equally distributed across the entire card, this is similar to comparing how mustard is evenly spread across a sandwich w/o poking a hole in the bed.

-+-+- Comprehensive Comments / Instructions -+-+-
First, let me appeal to those that want to use this card for their cameras and confirm your hopes and suspicions that is YES it is superb, the write speed at RAW and JPG are glorious ! This is a Type1 card means it is the slimmer form of CF versus the thicker TypeII (Many CF microdrives are TypeII to support the mechanical parts and can be used for comparative reference). Since it is Type1 it is practically guaranteed to physically fit into any CF ready camera.

Because this card runs at 45 Megabytes per second (300 x 150KBS = 45,000,0000 bytes per sec or 45MB) this is between an older IDE ATA33MBs or ATA66MBs, these disks were cutting edge in 1996 and common by 1998. Combined with an Serial ATA interface that can support 100MBs at most optimum conditions and this card can provide comparable performance to a 5,400 RPM hard drive that uses a lot more voltage and drains your battery faster.

It reads data extremely fast and the writes are superb. It really excels in the area of power consumption since it extends our battery life by at least 33% under the heaviest CPU and disk loads. Using a basic test of running a notebook PC on highest LCD brightness and w/o power saving features such as hard disk power off or suspend / hibernate and WiFi increased our battery lifespan by 45% under normal usage.

Despite the lower 45MBs access time, the this setup still runs faster than our 5400 and 7200 RPM SATA drives, remember that I/O is dependent on many things such as simultaneous operations, type of I/O such as intensive video and audio such as a game or database. For business use such as editing documents, web browsing and watching hosted and downloaded YouTube Video, this card still exceeds our hard drives. It is unlikely you will be able to use this card for booting your XP system and playing a contemporary video game because 8GB isn't large enough to hold both.

If your system can support multiple hard drives you can load more than one of these and use XP to create RAID arrays or leverage the BIOS if your hardware provides the functionality. Addonics also makes a PCI 4 CF card RAID controller ( also at their website ) but this won't fit inside a notebook.

Your notebook will also run cooler which also consumes less fan power and extending your battery.

XP Installation Tips:
Some of these can also be found at Addonics web site
1. Disable XP Prefetching, this is a function of Windows that copies certain application executables in directory inside the c:\windows directory. This supposedly helps XP load and run faster, but this seems bogus since XP can load the files just as quickly from the original location you installed it to.. PREFETCH JUST WASTES HARD DRIVE SPACE IT ALSO CREATES UN-NECESSARY WRITES TO YOUR CF CARD.

Delete all the files in the %systemroot%\prefetch hidden directory then modify the Registry and choose 0 for the new value or pick one of the others.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
0: Disable
1: Application Launch Prefetch
2: Boot Prefetch
3: Prefetch everything

2. Disable the XP Indexing service, this also creates un-necessary reads and will shorten the lifespan of your CF card. Disable the CISVC (Indexing Service). If you insist on indexing, consider Google Desktop instead since it has more options which are easier to modify so it won't constantly thrash the partition, also it can search more types files than XP indexing service.

3. Disable any background optimization such as automatic disk defragmentation, spyware or anti virus scans, again these are un-necessary disk access activities that will shorten the lifespan of your CF drive.

4. Disable the pagefile, if your system has at least 1GB of RAM than you'll have less of a need for a pagefile, if you have 2GB than you may not need one at all. Our 2GB and larger equipped systems don't use pagefiles no matter what kind of hard drive they have since we never exceed 2GB of activity and we aren't running multi user severs which really benefit from Windows paging. NOTE: This will add an extra second to boot up since XP looks for pagefile.sys and will respond with a popup at logon about "missing pagefile... blah blah blah"

5. Use ghost or other type of drive cloning application to copy your existing installation to the CF card, this preserves your settings and saves time from having to reinstall XP just for the CF card. If your system partition exceeds 7.8GB uncompressed, than we suggest the following steps:
A. Create a clone of your existing partition to a second hard drive large enough to copy your data.
B. Trim down the XP installation, move non application files such as MP3's, videos's, office / productivity documents to a data partition separate from where you install XP.
C. Wipe out un-necessary junk files that Windows is famous for, you can wack out the %systemroot%\*KB*Uninstall directories and any ServicePack Archive directories. The *KB*Uninstall files are the older / replaced versions of files that Windows Update has replaced because they were vulnerable to security attacks / hacks and are kept just in case you want to uninstall the patches and return back to your vulnerable state. (ROTFLMAO) -those directories just by themselves are often worth about 250MB of space.
D. Install FolderSize from SourceForge, it can be used to display your folder size in Explorer w/o having to right click / properties every one and displays it and sort it like any other characteristic. Start exploring these directories for hidden junk you don't need, Dell is notorious for burying blotware and source installers in places like this.

If you're still over the size limit, then start uninstalling applications which you can deem un-necessary or can reinstall to a traditional 2nd hard drive. This defeats many of the reasons you chose CF to begin with since the system still requires a HDD and the power and latency burden.

NOTE: If you already have two partitions on your system and the others are used to house applications, it is recommended you uninstall the applications that reside on the data partitions and reinstall them to your %systemdrive% so you can avoid having to use a traditional HDD at the same time.

6. Clone the trimmed build then replicate it over to the CF card

7. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, WHEN BOOTING THE CF CARD FOR THE FIRST TIME, ENSURE IT IS THE ONLY HARD DRIVE IN THE SYSTEM AND THE ORIGINAL SOURCE DRIVES ARE ABSENT. If the CF card is booted with the source HDD's, XP can become confused and still draw resources from the other drive letters if you have configured for multiple partitions and at the least, will create / use the pagefiles left remaining on the originals. In some cases, especially with multi-partitions, you could end up binding to the originals, then when you try to boot just the CF, it won't have the other source drive letters for applications and can end up in a loop or Logon/Logoff loop after successful authentication.

That scenario will drain so much time to fix so many issues in the Registry and configuration files, that you're better off just starting over.

FAST Card
Not much to say.. this card works as advertised, works at full speed in my Sony A700 that supports UDMA and off-loads very fast from the Lexar Firewire reader. I can copy 8Gig of images over FW400 in under 5 minutes!!!

okayyy
I brought these because I wanted ot be able to put my flip on the desk insted of plugging directly into the computer. It was okay but I had ot use all three together. I would have preferred the option to buy them in black since my flip is black or 3 of one color.

Designer Cables and Good Quality
As Flip becomes an iconic name just as the iPod did, only genuine accessories bearing the designer label will do for the fashion conscious user. Luckily, Flip produce their own USB cables in bright colors. The pack includes three USB extension cables for all applications. Use a single cable to connect your Flip to a notebook, use two for a tower with a front port and all three, connected in a daisy chain, to connect to a rear socket. Put the cables back in their box when not in use, and put the box on your bookshelf so it is always handy. Not to mention the cables are of a high quality, and one gets all three for only fifteen dollars.

Flip USB cables.
Purchased these for my Flip Ultra camera. This is a package of 3 cables. I really only needed one cable, so I would suggest to the manufacturer that they reduce the overall price to sell just one cable. I cannot imagine ever needing 3 of these cables. One is all that is needed.. Not three.
I suppose with the cost of packaging and the marketing costs, putting three of these in one pack makes sense, for the mfg. Overall, the quality of the cable is perfect.

Mino Flip
This is the right device for me except that I will prefer a USB port so that an external FLASH drive can be used.

They work for what I use them for
I should start out by saying I don't have a Flip Camcorder. What I use these for is to connect protruding usb devices(flash drives, mice transceivers, etc.) to my laptop. It just prevents accidental damage from bumps into said devices. To this end, they work great. I do agree that initially they are rather stiff, but that fades over time.

so far so good
The factory battey worked fine for about a yr then just died one day, which is a pretty lousy life span. This one came quickly and works fine for now, but the real question is how long will it last? For only though I am not sure how much I can expect. 4 stars assuming it lasts atleast a yr

3 Worked Fine
I got 3 for a hiking trip. They were used in a Sanyo video/photo camera. Most of the shots were photos(700+), with about an hour of video. Not much of a test. No problems so far and much less expensive than the alternatives.

Overheat and swells
This Ultralast battery overheated in cam to the point that it swelled and started to split at seams. Swelling was enough that battery cover wouldn't close. I've never had a prob with the original Sanyo battery. I'll pay a little more and get anothr Sanyo battery for my backup.

Customer Support
Earlier I had written a review stating that I was unhappy because I received the wrong cable. Today I write to let you know that myaccessorymall.com contacted me, apologized for the error, worked with me at length to understand what I needed, and made sure I received the cable I bought free of charge. I commend them for persisting in solving the problem. I can honestly say you can buy from myaccessorymall.com and be assured they will provide good customer service in case anything goes wrong.

Thanks

WORTH EVERY PENNY
I purchased this charger so I could have both one for the road and not have to rely on charging batteries in the camera. We have a lot of power surges in this small town and it's worth having a seperate charger. I have used this one so far to charge both Canon and after market batteries. The charging time is faster then I expected. Both charger and battery stay much cooler then expected when charging. I have another larger charger coming from Amazon soon. This one will go into the camera bag for the summer and see some traveling. Just buy it.

Excellent
I thought this was a great item! It is really low priced, and it does exactly what I need it to. It works with all my camcorder batteries and allows me to charge while on the road or away from a computer. I recommend this item to anyone who needs to charge batteries while on vacation- you will get more than what you payed for.

Work great!
I bought this item to my brother for his birthday gift. He says this item is great for him since he can charger his DC batteries anytime when he is traveling.