B&H has the Lexar Professional 128GB CF memory card with UDMA 7 for $59.95 (reg. $99.95) in limited quantity. Check it out while it lasts here at B&H Photo.
Lexar Memory Cards and Readers up to $75 Off
B&H has several CF and CFast memory cards and readers up to $75 off this week (through 4/22/16). Check them all out here at B&H Photo.
Axtremex Unveils 120MB/s CF Card
Axtremex Technology has announced a new CompactFlash card with an 800x speed rating, claiming 120MB/s read speeds and 95MB/s write speeds. The card is UDMA Mode 7 compatible and runs $400 for a 128GB capacity.
Note that even faster speeds have been attained my mainstream manufacturers (see the 1000x Lexar CF card for 150MB/s read speeds); however, prices are much higher.
Details and availability for Axtremex CF cards at Nanoflash.net.
CompactFlash Assoc. Unveils XQD Memory Cards
The CompactFlash Association announced a new XQD standard for CF cards. The new standard is based on the PCIe standard and should offer 125MB/s data transfer speeds out of the gate – with much faster possibilities later down the line.
Speed isn’t the only thing that has changed though. The XQD cards (I’m guessing that’s what we’ll call them… but couldn’t we have stuck to only 2 letters?) are a completely different physical format, which means they won’t work in any current camera. [Read more…]
New Compact Flash Specs Proposed by Sony, Nikon, SanDisk
The future of camera memory cards may be a new CF card that offers transfer rates of 500 MB/sec and capacity in excess of 2 TB. The development of these proposed specifications were announced today as part of a joint effort among Sony, Nikon and SanDisk.
Nikon, SanDisk and Sony have submitted these high-powered specs to the CompactFlash Association in hopes of a future standardization of the format. The new card specifications are based on a PCI Express interface (in order to achieve a 500 MB/sec transfer rate) instead of the Parallel ATA interface used in current generation cards.
According to the statement issued by SanDisk, Sony and Nikon, the new cards will be similar in size to existing CF cards. Hopefully, that also serves as a hint that the new cards will do away with the pins inside camera, which are so susceptible to being bent.
Complete details of the announcement are below. [Read more…]