The SD Association announced a new standard for SD Express and microSD Express that adds new speed classes for the former and promises double the speeds of the latter. While great on paper, the updates do nothing to make the format desirable for camera makers.
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.
SanDisk now offers a massive 1TB capacity SD card that can hit transfer speeds fast enough to nab a V60 rating, making it fast enough to use for many 4K and even 6K video recording applications.
OWC has announced its new Innergize software for memory cards, new memory card readers, and its new Jellyfish XT Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Solution.
Nextorage, a relative newcomer to the memory card space, has announced two new SD card series. One, the NX-F2PRO SD cards are the company's highest performance while the NX-F2SE cards are slower but still good enough to handle 4K video capture.
ProGrade Digital has announced a new higher capacity 512GB V60 UHS-II SD card to its line which promises a maximum read speed of 250MB/s and a minimum sustained write speed of 60 MB/s.
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.
Samsung has announced a new durable and long-lasting microSD cards that it says will be able to deliver up to 140,160 hours -- 16 years -- of continuous recording time.
ProGrade Digital has announced a new UHS-II V90 class 512GB SD card that will never dip below a sustained write speed of 90 MB/s. The company says it is one of the first to introduce and ship a card capable of these sustained write speeds at this capacity.
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.
Transcend's new JetDrive Lite 360 is a 1TB SD memory card that is positioned as expandable storage for Apple MacBooks. Thanks to its unusual size, it will sit flush with the MacBook but also won't likely work in nearly any other use case.
Photographers and videographers who shoot large campaigns leave sets with a ton of data that needs to be ingested, backed up, and organized for editing. For successful businesses, one measly SD card slot on the back of a computer doesn't cut it. For them, a multi-card ingestion device is a must, and right now the SanDisk Professional Pro-Dock 4 is absolutely unbeatable in that department.
After reading my story on its $300 SD Express card, Ritz Gear reached out and insisted that I try it for myself. The company even included an SD Express card reader in an attempt, I assume, to show its value. After testing, I am at a loss: this is so much worse than I ever thought it could be.
Ritz Gear is currently offering a brand new SD Express memory card that it promises boasts up to 820 MB/s read and 500 MB/s write speeds for $300. In real-world use cases, it will never come close to these promises and it says so right on the box.
Samsung has announced a new line of memory cards that it says are designed for content creators who are capturing 4K ultra-high definition (UHD) videos as well as photos.
China-based LamboTech has announced the LamboGo, a portable and rugged high-speed SSD backup solution that is designed for photographers who want to secure their footage without needing to use a laptop as a go-between.
Earlier today, the President of the SD Association unveiled the new SD Express 8.0 specification. Built on the PCIe 4.0 standard using NVMe technology, SD 8.0 will "set a new standard for memory cards," with theoretical data transfer speeds of up to 4 gigaBYTES per second.
Memory card maker ProGrade Digital has unveiled a new lineup of UHS-II microSDXC cards that are both faster and cheaper than their predecessors. And since they come with a full-size, full performance UHS-II SD adaptor, they're extremely versatile as well.
Manfrotto has jumped into the memory card market. Best known for its tripods, lighting supports, and accessories, the Italy-based brand just unveiled its new Pro Rugged line of memory cards. They're purportedly the strongest memory cards on the market.
Though we went into great detail recently into why the SD card isn't going anywhere anytime soon, the format's days are likely still numbered. Positioned as a response to CFexpress, the SD Association published an initiative about a year ago for the next generation SD card called SDexpress (SDx).
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about Apple's latest laptop and a wish list for things that weren't included in its design. One of those things was a return to the built-in SD card reader.
Memory Card maker ProGrade Digital has unveiled an interesting new piece of software called "Refresh Pro." When used with compatible ProGrade memory cards and card readers, the software can tell you the health of your memory card and "refresh" your card's performance to "factory new" condition.
Sony's TOUGH SD cards are extremely popular among photographers. But just how tough are they? Photographer and writer Steve Huff decided to put the latest iteration of these TOUGH cards through the ultimate battery of tests: freezer, washer, dryer, pool, and... just for fun... blender.
Cardpackr is a new memory card storage solution designed by a design partnership called W2. It's a stackable magnetic case that can expand to hold as many memory cards as you need.
Sony has announced its new Tough line of SD memory cards, which it claims are the toughest and fastest SD cards ever made.
The SD Association has just announced the latest specifications for the widely used Secure Digital (SD) memory card format. The new Ultra Capacity (UC) designation will mean capacities of up to 128 terabytes and the "Express" designation will mean transfer speeds of up to 985 megabytes per second.
When Apple unveiled its latest Macbook Pro laptops last month, one change photographers immediately noticed is the absence of a built-in SD card slot. While it hasn't caused as much of a hoopla as the removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7, the design decision does have a lot of photographers talking and some photographers griping.
It has finally happened: an SD card has now broken the 1 terabyte threshold. SanDisk and its parent company Western Digital today unveiled a new 1 terabyte SDXC card, ushering in a new era of tiny memory cards with massive storage capacities.
virtualGimbal is one of the most interesting little devices we've ever come across. An SD card with a gyro built right in, the device does double duty by capturing your footage while it also captures the movement of your camera for better electronic stabilization in post.
Sigma today dropped a surprise bomb on the camera industry by announcing a pair of formidable mirrorless cameras. While the DP Quattro packed Sigma's Foveon sensors, the fixed lenses and unwieldy designs weren't popular among photographers.
The sd Quattro and sd Quattro H boast large Foveon Quattro sensors behind a Sigma SA lens mount, allowing photographers to use Sigma's lineup of Global Vision lenses.
SanDisk just succeeded in its mission to get bought out. Hard drive maker Western Digital announced today that it has agreed to acquire SanDisk in a deal worth about $19 billion in cash and stock. If all goes well, the deal will close in the third quarter or 2016.
Want a lot of storage space for photos in a very tiny package? The California-based company Microdia has unveiled a new microSD card that can hold a whopping 512GB of data in a card that's smaller than a fingernail.
Eye-Fi has announced the new Mobi Pro, a 32GB WiFi SD card that the company is calling "the most powerful wireless SD card ever." As more and more cameras are being launched with built-in Wi-Fi functionality, Eyefi is rolling out improvements to its memory card offerings to try and keep up.
Toshiba has announced the world's first SDHC card that has near field communication (NFC) baked right in. The technology allows you to see what's on a card without having to plug the card into a camera or card reader. Instead, you'll be able to 'preview' the contents simply by bringing a smartphone close to the card.
I will start off by saying I am partial to SanDisk memory cards, but I recently found a great write up on their website that is pretty much universal, explaining the difference between SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards. I wanted to share this information with everyone because sometimes it can be confusing trying to figure out which SD Card is best for you.
Yesterday, SanDisk unveiled the newest addition to its Secure Digital memory card lineup: a 128GB microSDXC card that effectively doubles the storage capabilities of the current generation of cards.
And while the practicality of that much storage on a microSD card isn't overly exciting for most photographers, there are certainly some scenarios where this will be beneficial.
Eye-Fi has offered the ability to wirelessly transmits photos from a camera to another device for quite a while now, but there was a downside: you were required to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot to do so (with the exception of the Eye-Fi X2). This presented a challenge to photographers shooting on location where a Wi-Fi hotspot may not have been readily available.
Eye-Fi has come forth with their new "Eye-Fi Mobi" product, which streamlines the process of sending images to a mobile device.
Check out this curious 25-second time-lapse/composite video that shows every airplane that landed at San Diego International Airport on Black Friday a week ago between 10:30am and 3pm. The giant planes whiz by overhead as if they're part of a fighter jet squadron heading off to battle -- not something you'd expect to see with commercial planes at an airport. It was created by photography and film professor Cy Kuckenbaker.
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