Materazzi Scores on Decisive Football Moments Captured on SanDisk Extreme III Memory Cards

Millions look on

Both companies have brought the highest level of quality to thispartnership. Didier Guerin, spokesman for Agence France Press: "Since1835 we have had an excellent reputation. Today, 2,000 employees in165 countries work on maintaining that standard. We realize thatbillions of World Cup fans worldwide follow our second-to-second newscoverage in the newspapers, on TV and on the Internet. Every day wepublish a total of around half a million words and something like 700photos; all of these must meet our standards of editorial quality. Ourphotographers often work under extreme circumstances, not only duringthe Tour de France or the Formula 1 season, but also in Somalia,Darfur, Sulawesi and Urugstan. Rain, heat, darkness, cold, speed --they are able to reproduce all of these faithfully with the reliablecards from SanDisk."

Up to 20 MB per second

For memory card producer SanDisk the partnership also provides auseful practical case study. Tanya Chuang, senior retail marketingmanager at SanDisk, said, "It goes without saying that an intensivetest period preceded the introduction of the SanDisk Extreme IIIcards. We recognize the photographers from Agence France Press asextraordinarily demanding professionals who are satisfied with nothingbut the best. Their experiences are very valuable and help us todevelop new cards with even faster recording speeds and still morestorage capacity. The cards that we now offer vary from 2GB to 8GBcapacities and are equipped with ESP technology which enables them toread and write at least 20MB per second (MemoryStick PRO Duo has awrite speed of 18MB/sec, 20MB/sec. read speed.)(3) They are resistantto shocks, vibration, and temperatures between -25 degrees C and +85degrees C. This sturdiness gives the technology an impressive lifeexpectancy. If the photographers have questions, they can contact ourExtreme Technical Support Hotline, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

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(1)These high resolution pictures taken by AFP with a SanDiskExtreme III memory cards are neither able to be diffused or publishedexcept with a clipping dedicated to this release or the SanDisk-AFPcorporation

(2)1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes

(3)Performance based on internal SanDisk test data