SanDisk To Supply CF Cards For New Canon A50

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--April 20, 1999--SanDisk Corporation announced today that it will supply Canon with removable, reusable CompactFlash(TM) (CF(TM)) digital film memory cards for Canon's new PowerShot A50 digital camera.

A SanDisk 8MB (megabyte) CF card will be included with the sale of every PowerShot A50 digital camera, the world's smallest and lightest zoom lens-equipped megapixel camera.

Canon's new camera is the 76th digital camera that has been introduced with specific slots for CompactFlash memory cards to capture and store images. CF cards are economical as they can be reused to take millions of pictures. CompactFlash is the world's largest selling digital film product.