If you’re a photographer, you’re likely familiar with memory cards. They’re what our photographs are stored on -- removable flash media that we insert into a slot (or slots) in our camera, take photos, and then (sometimes) remove and insert into a card reader or card slot on our computer.
ProGrade Digital, the new memory card company launched in mid-February 2018 by a group of former Lexar executives, is trying to stay ahead of the game in the memory card format wars. It will not be making any XQD cards, and instead the company is pushing for the CFexpress format.
Tidbits about the upcoming Canon 5D Mark IV have been few and far between, but a 'pretty reliable source' is revealing a piece of info that's bound to make Mark III users happy. It seems the Mark IV will come with card slots for both CFast 2.0 and SDXC UHS-II.
One of the cool, though not all that useful, announcements to come out of CES yesterday night was of Lexar's new "world's fastest memory card." The announcement is cool because, well, it's the world's fastest memory card. It's not useful (at least not yet) because chances are very good you don't own a camera that can take advantage of it.
SanDisk made it clear last September that it would not be pursuing the XQD memory card format, but instead would focus its energies on CFast 2.0, the then newly-announced high-speed CompactFlash spec.
Almost a year later, SanDisk has finally debuted the fruits of that decision: a card that is both the world's first CFast 2.0 card, and the world's fastest memory card of any kind.