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Sony XQD memory cards want to snuggle in your new D4

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2012 Discuss [1]

The XQD memory card format was only announced last month, but already we've got a camera that uses it - in the shape of Nikon's D4 DSLR - and a 16GB and 32GB cards from Sony. Easily capable of keeping up with the D4's maximum 11fps shooting, thanks to up to 1Gbps/125MB/s write and read rates, the Sony cards can save 100 frames in RAW format in continuous shooting mode. Read The Full Story

Lexar touts first 1000x CompactFlash memory card

Rue Liu, Jan 5th 2012 Discuss [2]

Lexar today announced the industry's first 1000x CompactFlash memory cards. Professional photographers and videographers will appreciate these blazing-fast cards, which offers a minimum guaranteed sustained read speed of 150MB per second of faster and a write speed of 145MB per second. Read The Full Story

SanDisk releases 64GB class 6 MicroSD card

Rue Liu, Sep 16th 2011 Discuss [4]

SanDisk launched the first 64GB microSD card this week called the SanDisk Mobile Ultra. It will allow you to add a whole lot more storage to your microSDXC-compatible smartphones and tablets, doubling capacity up from the current 32GB standard. It also features Class 6 transfer speeds of up to 30MB/s that provide better performance for capturing full HD videos. Read The Full Story

Toshiba debuts FlashAir 8GB SDHC card with WLAN

Rue Liu, Sep 1st 2011 Discuss [3]

Toshiba is announcing a new SDHC memory card called the FlashAir that is WiFi-enabled. The card features an embedded wireless LAN that allows it to both transmit and receive files wirelessly. The FlashAir is being touted as the world's first SDHC memory card with embedded wireless LAN functionality to meet the SD Memory Card Standard. Read The Full Story

Delkin Reveals Elite633 64GB SDXC Card, Fastest on Earth

Chris Burns, Jun 29th 2011 Discuss [0]

Or so they say. While we've written about our fair share of SD cards in the past, it's the SDXC cards we've got our eyes on now. Last card we reported on with the kind of size and speed this Delkin card is reporting on was the Lexar set, one of them at 128GB and the other at 64GB. Why in the world would I want this newer Delkin ELITE633 card with less than the most storage in the world on it? Because it's the fastest! This card is able to record at speeds up to 45 megabytes per second and read at speeds up to 95 megabytes per second. Read The Full Story

Kingmax debuts world’s largest capacity microSD card with 64GB of storage

Shane McGlaun, May 25th 2011 Discuss [6]

Generally speaking when it comes to storage most of us want more. You can a never have enough storage, especially when it comes to your digital content on cameras and other devices that use SD and microSD cards. One of the cool things about having a massive memory card in your camcorder or other devices is that you can just keep the originals on your card and still have plenty of room to shoot new pics or video. Read The Full Story

Lexar Reveals Dual-Slot Card Reader for UDMA CF, SDXC and SD UHS-I

Chris Burns, May 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

This sassy little number is presented by Lexar today for dual-card reading, supporting UDMA CF, SDXC and SD UHS-I memory cards as well as being backwards compatible with your standard CF, SD and SDHC memory cards. This reader of course uses USB 3.0 for it's super speedy delivery at 500MB per second, this card reader capable of both data transfer between the cards and the host computer as well as card-to-card transfers. Read The Full Story

Eye-Fi Direct Mode enabled: Squirt shots to your smartphone

Chris Davies, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [3]

Eye-Fi's Direct Mode has gone live, offering users of the company's WiFi-enabled X2 memory cards the ability to push images direct to the iOS and Android apps. Announced back in January, rather than push images to Eye-Fi's servers first, and then pull them down to a local device, Direct Mode works the other way around and allows you to choose which files get uploaded. Read The Full Story

iPad 2 Compact Flash card reader ideal for mobile videographers [Video]

Chris Davies, Mar 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

As we discovered in our review of the iPad 2, the new iMovie for iPad app turns the iOS slate into quite the portable video editing studio (you can see a demo of quite how easy it is after the cut). Apple's official Camera Connector Kit will get you going with SD memory cards, but until now if you recorded to CompactFlash you were out of luck. That's all changed, however, with the new M.I.C. CF connector kit. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Kingston adds new 16GB microSDHC Class 10 card to line

Shane McGlaun, Mar 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Kingston has a bunch of different storage offerings in its line from flash drives to memory cards for the digital camera and other devices. Kingston has added a new storage capacity to its line of class 10 microSDHC cards. The line already had 4GB and 8GB capacities. Read The Full Story

Lexar Introduces Industry’s First 128GB Pro SDXC Memory Card

Rue Liu, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Lexar Media announced today that it is releasing two new professional SDXC memory cards, including one that is the industry's first to boast a 128GB capacity. Both the 64GB and 128GB cards should come to the delight of photographers and videographers as they are high-capacity and high-speed. Read The Full Story

Silicon Power announces new 600X 64GB CF Card for DSLRs

Shane McGlaun, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Silicon Power has announced that it has a new compact flash card that is available for DSLR shooters that need a storage card that is crazy fast for shooting bursts at high resolution. The new storage card is a 600X professional level compact flash offering that has a lot of storage in addition to fast speeds. Read The Full Story