ProGrade Digital’s New Memory Cards Give Users Speed and Space
ProGrade Digital announced six new products meant to help creators speed up their workflows without sacrificing space.
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.
OWC has announced its new Innergize software for memory cards, new memory card readers, and its new Jellyfish XT Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Solution.
Lexar has announced new CFexpress Type B Gold Series memory cards ranging from 128GB to 2TB capacities. The CFexpress Type B Gold Series cards join Lexar's existing CFexpress Type B Diamond Series cards, with the former offering expanded capacity options at lower prices in exchange for only a slight dip in minimum sustained performance.
The Pan's Workflow Station is a card reader hub device that allows photographers to offload multiple memory cards at once, and it does so for notably cheaper than other options.
CFexpress has finally come into its own and multiple companies are now producing a wide variety of capacities at a range of prices. But with so many choices, which one should you buy?
ProGrade Digital has released its third-generation CFexpress Type B Gold series memory card to provide faster sustained write speeds that can better meet the demands of high-resolution video cameras.
Nextorage has announced its B1 Pro Series of CFexpress Type B memory cards that reach maximum read speeds of 1,950 MB/s and maximum write speeds of 1,900 MB/s -- the fastest performance yet.
Lexar has announced a new higher-capacity CFexpress Type A card. Categorized into its Gold line, the 320GB card promises up to 900 MB/s read speeds and 800 MB/s write speeds.
OWC has launched several new high-performance SD cards that feature v90 capacities of up to 512GB and v60 capacities of up to 1TB. Its new CFexpress Type-B cards are just as impressive and reach capacities up to 2TB with blazing fast speeds.
Pergear has announced a set of new CFexpress Type B cards that not only boast high read and write speeds as well as high capacities but also come in significantly cheaper than the competition.
Lost in the shuffle of yesterday's FX30 camera announcement was the coming availability of a 640GB capacity CFexpress Type A card, the largest capacity from any manufacturer yet.
Lexar has officially released its Diamond Series CFexpress Type B cards. Announced back in April as the "world's fastest," the series promises transfer speeds of up to 1,900 MB/s.
Lexar has revealed the pricing of its new Gold Series CFexpress Type A cards and while it is more expensive than both Sony and ProGrade Digital equivalents, in testing the new card handily outperforms both.
Exascend has announced a new series of CFexpress Type-A memory cards whose specifications match both Sony's and Prograde Digital's promised performance but offer a lower price and a new industry-highest capacity of 240GB.
ProGrade Digital has announced a new Cobalt-class 165GB capacity CFexpress Type-B card to its lineup. The card is ProGrade's highest-performing but, thanks to the reduced capacity, is more affordable at $180.
Nikon has released final information on its promised first-party CFexpress Type-B memory card. The new 660GB capacity card doesn't have a listed release date, but it can be pre-ordered for $727.