ProGrade’s New VPG 200 CFexpress Type A Cards Are Affordable, Spacious
ProGrade Digital Inc. announced new CFexpress 2.0 Type A Gold Series memory cards that promise "optimal capacity for RAW cinema-level video shooting."
Sony Photographers Need to Be Careful What Memory Cards They Buy
Photographers who use any of Sony's most recent cameras are no doubt familiar with CFexpress Type A cards. As Sony is the only manufacturer to use the format, the cards are usually expensive. There are some cheap options out there, but unfortunately, they still come with a cost.
Tested: New CFexpress 4.0 Readers Make Your Current Cards Way Faster
The new CFexpress 4.0 specification promises significantly faster transfer speeds than the cards currently on the market and while no camera can take advantage of it right now, your computer can, which makes a strong case for consolidating your storage hardware into a single media.
CFexpress 4.0 is Here, But We’ll Need New Cameras Before We See Faster Speeds
CFexpress 4.0 cards are already entering the market this year with the promise of much faster read and write speeds. While that sounds great, it is going to be a while before photographers and filmmakers can really take advantage of it.
CFexpress 4.0 to Double Card Speed to 4 GB/s and Be Backward Compatible
The CompactFlash Association today announced the specification for CFexpress 4.0 which can double the theoretical throughput performance compared to current cards while maintaining backward compatibility.
Exascend Nitro CFexpress are First to Nab CFA Performance Guarantee
Exascend has announced the new 512GB Nitro CFexpress Type B card which is the first to be certified VPG400 by the CompactFlash Association (CFA), indicating a sustained read and write speed of at least 400 MB/s over the capacity of the card.
Scratching the Color Filter Array Layer Off a DSLR Sensor for Sharper B&W Photos
In October 2012, astrophotographer Raymond Collecutt of Whangarei, New Zealand shared a new (and risky) idea he was playing around with: converting a standard DSLR into a sharper monochrome camera for photographing space.
XQD a No-Show at Photokina, SanDisk Opts to Avoid the Format
When XQD memory cards were announced in December 2011, the CompactFlash Association touted the format as the successor to CompactFlash cards. We definitely seemed to be moving in that direction at first: one month after the unveiling, Nikon's flagship D4 DSLR was announced with XQD card support. The day after that, Sony became the first major memory card maker to announce a line of XQD cards. Six months later, Lexar also announced its intentions to join the party.
Since then, things have died down to the point where you can hear grasshoppers chirping. Not a single XQD-capable camera was announced at Photokina 2012 this past week. Despite being the first to make them, Sony strangely decided to leave the cards out of its top-of-the-line cameras as well.
CompactFlash Cards to Be Replaced with the Smaller XQD Format
Perhaps in response to the growing capacities and falling prices of SD cards, the CompactFlash Association has announced a …