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All posts tagged "compactflash"


Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Memory Card Standard Upgrades: CompactFlash's Turn This Time

Posted by Lee Yuan Sheng in "Digital Home News" @ 09:00 AM

http://nikonrumors.com/2010/11/30/c...-it-better.aspx

"Today SanDisk, Sony and Nikon 'announced the joint development of a set of specifications that address the future requirements of professional photography and video markets.'"

CompactFlash still has plenty of life left in it as a professional medium for photographers; its durability and physical size (SD is a bit fiddly to work with in the field) are great plus points. What Nikon, Sandisk and Sony should do next after making them go faster (500 MB/s is the target), larger (2TB cards anyone?) and tougher, is to make a portable and fast CF card reader solution. I have had enough of dangling card readers and fiddly cables I keep on losing.


Thursday, September 30, 2010

Kingston Brings The Speed with a 32GB, 600x Speed CompactFlash Memory Card

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 08:00 PM

http://www.photographyblog.com/news...0x_memory_cards

"Kingston has released its CompactFlash Ultimate 600x memory cards. Available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, the Kingston CompactFlash Ultimate 600x cards support UDMA mode 6 and offer read and write speeds of up to 90MB/sec. Backed by a lifetime warrenty, the cards are priced at £170.85 (32GB) and £97.55 (16GB). For added peace of mind, the price of theCF Ultimate 600x cards include free downloadable data recovery software from MediaRECOVER."

CompactFlash may be a dying memory card standard, but Kingston and professional photographers the world over still have a lot of love for this format - and I do as well. Although things are looking better for the speeds of SD cards with the release of UHS cards, right now CompactFlash wipes the floor with SD cards in the speed department. 32 GB of storage this fast would simply be awesome...you could shoot all day and never have to charge cards!


Tuesday, January 19, 2010

128 GB CompactFlash Released by Silicon Power

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 11:00 AM

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1001/1...ower128gbcf.asp

"Worldclass flash memory manufacturer Silicon Power today announces the world's first 400X Compact Flash (CF) card with 128GB of storage capacity. Announcing their 600X CF card not long ago for the ultimate performance, the 400X CF card is designed to offer the ultimate storage capacity while not compromising on performance, featuring a write speed of up to 90MB/sec. It is the largest storage capacity CF card to date!"

128 GB of storage in a CF card? Wow. I'm reminded of that line in Spaceballs about ludicrous speed. I have a 32 GB CF card that I rarely use because it's such an insane amount of storage - and it pales in comparison with this 128 GB card. I can't imagine the market for a 128 GB CF card is more than a few hundred world-wide, nor can I imagine the price on a card like this. Yikes!


Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Delkin's SD to CF Adaptor: It Works Like it Should

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 08:00 AM

If you've got a DSLR that's in the prosumer or professional range, odds are that it uses CompactFlash memory cards. While we're starting to see prosumer/professional DSLRs supporting Secure Digital (SD) cards - the D300s has both CF and SD card slots - by and large most of these cameras only support CompactFlash. This leaves laptop users in a quandary: how do you get your images off that CompactFlash card? Sure you, could bring the cable for your camera and move it off that way - but that requires you bring the cable with you, and your camera batteries are draining while that transfer happens. Not ideal. You could bring a USB-based memory card reader with you, but it's one more thing to forget to bring with you. If your laptop has an ExpressCard54 slot, you could use a Delkin ExpressCard CompactFlash Adaptor like I do, but an increasing number of laptops are dropping ExpressCard slots entirely, or going for the narrower ExpressCard34 slots. Delkin has an adaptor for the ExpressCard34 slot, but it sticks out so you can't leave it in all the time. So what do you do? You switch to shooting onto an SD card using the Delkin SD to CF Adaptor that's what. I bought one from Amazon.com [affiliate] for $24.95 USD and wanted to share my experiences using it. Read more...


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