In December, PetaPixel published a deep-dive on the wild west of CFexpress cards, highlighting how many were outright ignoring vital portions of the specification that allowed the cards to work properly with Sony cameras. Today, the story is very different.
As a creative who often has to travel for my clients, the amount of gear and accessories needed to get a job done can often lead to a lot of headaches when trying to get everything connected to my laptop, especially if I'm shooting large campaigns where I need to ingest a ton of data.
Wise released a batch of CFexpress Type-A memory cards last year that made lofty promises but weren't certified to uphold them. The company has done the right thing and its new cards have more capacity options and are certified to be faster.
Exascend's new Essential Pro series of CFexpress Type A memory cards -- a format that, at the time of publication, only Sony uses -- use the new 4.0 standard, meaning they can promise some ridiculous speeds to support high resolution and high framerate shooting.
Delkin Devices announced a new line of Black CFexpress Type B 4.0 memory cards that rely on a different type of flash memory that it says makes them just as fast as competitors but more reliable.
ProGrade Digital announced six new products meant to help creators speed up their workflows without sacrificing space.
Wise is throwing out a one-two punch with the announcement of the first 4TB CFexpress Type B card -- the world's largest at the time of publication -- alongside another lower-capacity series that caps out at a blazing 3,700 MB/s.
Sony has released new high-capacity Tough CFexpress Type B cards in 240GB and 480GB capacities. These cards promise swift speeds and high performance for photographers and videographers using the latest and greatest Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, and Panasonic cameras.
Building upon its original CreateMate Memory Card Case, which combines memory card protection, organization, and file transferring, Pgytech has released a new version that supports CFexpress memory cards.
Other World Computing (OWC) unveiled its new USB4 CFexpress 4.0 Type B card reader at the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Yokohama, Japan.
Angelbird has discontinued its massive 1TB capacity CFexpress Type A card. The $500 card was not only cheap, it promised full compatibility with Sony cameras. That might be the source to the "why" it has been taken off store shelves.
The Compact Flash Association (CFA) finally published a list of all VPG certified memory cards that provide a guarantee that they will work with certain functions of all supported cameras, including Sony cameras that require the certification.
Typical camera body caps are so dull, right? Photography gear company Polar Pro certainly thinks so and aims to solve this problem with its new Defender Body Cap.
ProGrade Digital Inc. announced new CFexpress 2.0 Type A Gold Series memory cards that promise "optimal capacity for RAW cinema-level video shooting."
Lexar is the first memory card manufacturer to bring support for the new, much faster CFexpress 4.0 standard to Type-A cards, the format that only Sony uses in its high-end mirrorless Alpha cameras.
The Japan-based memory manufacturer Nextorage released the fastest CFexpress Type A card made yet, promising read and write speeds of up to 950 MB/s.
Even though it just launched a new Cobalt-class CFexpress 4.0 card in September, ProGrade Digital isn't resting on its laurels and has a new Gold series in three capacities that writes data at a rip-roaring 3,000 MB/s.
CFexpress cards used to only be available from just a small list of manufacturers but over the last few years, that has changed and now there is a wide variety of very good options. One example is ProMaster's new 1.3TB Velocity CINE card which is a great blend of speed, capacity, and price.
Sony's new a9 III is the first full-frame interchangeable lens mirrorless (ILC) camera to use a global shutter, which unlocks some serious performance like 120 frames per second shooting. It doesn't however, have support for the latest CFexpress specification.
Along with a full line of new solutions, SanDisk announced a microSD card that it claims is the fastest high-capacity option on the market.
OWC has announced a line of CFexpress cards that use the new 4.0 specification. The Atlas Pro and Atlas Ultra cards double the speed of the previous versions and, in an industry first, the company allows some 2.0 cards to be upgraded to 4.0 speeds.
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 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.
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.
Wise has announced a new series of CFexpress Type A memory cards that were engineered specifically for Sony Alpha and FX line cameras.
Lexar is rounding out its memory card options with the launch of new Silver series UHS-II SD and CFexpress cards. While not as high capacity or as fast as the Gold or Diamond series, they're still plenty fast for high-resolution photo and video applications.
ProGrade Digital has announced a higher 2TB capacity option for its third-generation CFexpress Type B Gold memory cards.
Sony has reclaimed the title of the largest CFexpress Type A card with its new 1,920GB capacity monster. That's a ton of storage, but it comes with a similarly high asking price.
Sabrent has followed up on its first-generation CFexpress Type B cards with a new set that improves transfer speeds and also doubles the previous cards' highest capacity.
Angelbird has announced a 1TB capacity CFexpress Type A card, which is now easily the largest capacity storage media available to support Sony photographers.