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Sony unveils two huge new 960GB and 1920GB Tough CFexpress cards

Jun 2, 2023 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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Sony has announced two new large-capacity 960GB and 1920GB CFexpress Type A memory cards. The two new cards offer read speeds of up to 800MB/sec and write speeds of up to 700MB/sec. Their VPG 200 specification rating guarantees they’ll never drop below 200MB/sec sustained write speeds.

Like all of Sony’s Tough series memory cards, they feature a rugged and durable design. It lets them handle drops of up to 7.5 metres (a little over 24ft). They can take up to 150 Newtons of impact force. And they can perform in temperatures ranging from a chilly -10°C up to 70°C (14-158°F). The cards also possess an IP57. This means they can survive drops in water up to 1 metre in depth for at least half an hour.

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ProGrade Digital officially announces 3rd generation 1TB CFexpress cards

Jan 20, 2023 by John Aldred Add Comment
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It looks like last October’s post was a little premature. Despite appearing on the B&H website, it looks like ProGrade’s 3rd-generation 1TB CFexpress Type B cards hadn’t been officially announced by the company themselves. Well, now, they have.

ProGrade Digital has announced their newest 3rd-generation 1TB CFexpress Type B cards, boasting read speeds of up to 1,700MB/sec, burst write speeds up to 1,500MB/sec and sustained write speeds of up to 1,300MB/sec. But why the delay between listings appearing in October and an official announcement now? Well, ProGrade explains that, too.

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Nextorage announces the world’s fastest CFexpress Type B memory cards up to 1,330GB

Nov 22, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Nextorage has announced its new CFexpress cards. Claiming to be the world’s fastest, with read speeds of up to 1,950MB/sec, the B1 SE and B1 Pro series come in a variety of capacities from 128GB up to a whopping 1,330GB. Shifting its focus towards creatives is an interesting move for the Sony subsidiary founded in 2019, which initially seemed predominantly targeted towards Playstation users.

The two new CFexpress product lines are aimed at different types of users. The B1 SE aimed more towards photographers with an 1100MB/sec write speed for clearing out buffers, but with transfer speeds like that, it’s no slouch for many video shooters, too. The B1 Pro, on the other hand, provides writing speeds up to 1,900MB/sec for faster buffer clearance and 8K video recording at high bitrates.

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ProGrade’s new high-capacity CFexpress Type B “Gold” cards come in 512GB, 1TB and 2TB flavours

Oct 4, 2022 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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ProGrade Digital has announced (maybe?) new high-capacity additions to their Gold line CFexpress Type B cards. These include the now somewhat modest 512GB cards, along with larger capacities of 1TB and 2TB. They’re fully compliant with both CFexpress Type B 1.0 and 2.0 specifications and also work with devices that have XQD card slots that have had firmware updates from the manufacturers (like Nikon’s DSLRs).

The new cards offer read speeds of up to 1700MB/sec for quickly offloading your content to your computer or other storage device and write speeds of up to 1500MB/sec – with a guaranteed minimum write speed of 400MB/sec (3.2gbps) for a wide range of video applications including 4K RAW, 4K and 7K ProRes 4444 as well as 4K, 6K and 8K ProRes 422HQ.

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A pair of Sony’s new 640GB CFexpress Type A cards costs more than your Sony FX30 preorder

Sep 30, 2022 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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Along with the announcement of the new Sony FX30 APS-C cinema camera, Sony has also released two new capacities of their Sony Tough CFexpress Type A memory cards. This expands their existing 80GB and 160GB capacity versions with 320GB and the largest CFexpress Type A card to date from any manufacturer at 640GB.

The new large capacity cards offer maximum write speeds of up to 700MB/sec and sustained write speeds of up to 400MB/sec for the kind of 4K 120fps high bit rate video shooting that the Sony FX30 and FX3 provide. They’re also part of Sony’s “Tough” line, which means they’ve been certified waterproof, dust proof and durable enough to withstand harsh environments.

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You might cut your CFexpress card costs in half by using an M.2 NVMe SSD in this adapter

Apr 22, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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As the drop-in replacement for XQD and the logical successor to CFast 2.0, CFexpress is the hot new format that’s most definitely here to stay. But CFexpress cards are still relatively fresh and new… and expensive. While 256GB SD cards can be picked up for as little as $54, and even UHS-II ones can be found for under $100, 256GB CFexpress cards typically start at around $200.

But there is another option, as detailed by Joseph Nuzzo over on Photofocus. You can also use an M.2 NVMe SSD inside Sintech CFexpress Type-B M.2 NVMe 2230 SSD adapter. NVMe SSDs are significantly less expensive than CFexpress cards, allowing for larger capacities for less money while still being able to get the speed capabilities for which you need a CFexpress card in the first place.

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No card reader required – The X-Driver is a CFexpress card with a built-in Type-C USB plug

Apr 20, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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It seems quite obvious when you think about it. A memory card that features its own native USB plug so that you don’t have to deal with card readers, especially in the days of OTG memory sticks like the SanDisk iXpand. After all, with a lot of memory card formats these days, the physical size of them is mostly for easy handling by human fingers than actually needing to be that big to store all the electronics.

Well, the X-Driver, which just launched on Indiegogo, takes advantage of this dead space in the CFexpress physical format by removing some of it and replacing it with a Type-C USB plug. This lets you pull the card straight out of your camera and right into your smartphone or PC for backup, editing and sharing while fitting within the physical CFexpress specifications.

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ProGrade Digital competes directly against Sony with new 800MB/sec CFexpress Type A cards

Sep 21, 2021 by John Aldred Add Comment
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ProGrade Digital has announced its new CFexpress Type A cards. At the moment, this means that their only real competitor is Sony and their target market is Sony shooters. The new cards offer read speeds of up to 800MB/sec, with sustained and burst write speeds of 400MB/sec and up to 700MB/sec respectively for high-resolution video capture.

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Manfrotto’s new 1.7GB/sec CFexpress Type B cards are built for extreme shooting conditions

Nov 11, 2020 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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Manfrotto is breaking into the CFexpress market with two new CFexpress Type B memory cards. Initially being offered in two capacities of 128GB and 256GB, the cards offer speeds of up to 1,730MB/sec, and allow you to record 4K, 6K and 8K video footage at high frame rates, not to mention fast buffer clearing for RAW stills.

Manfrotto says they offer “industrial strength and reliability with unparalleled performance” for use in temperatures from -25°C all the way up to 70°C, so whether you’re shooting in the sub-zero arctic temperatures or the hot Arizona sunshine, they should stand up to the task just fine.

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Nikon D5, D850 and D500 will finally get CFexpress support by end of 2020

Oct 9, 2020 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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It’s been a LONG time since Nikon first announced that they would be creating firmware updates to add CFexpress support to the Nikon D5, D850 and D500 DSLRs to allow users to make use of the new format in their XQD card slots. Well, now, Nikon Rumors (not Nikon) is “confirming” that the firmware will be coming before the end of 2020.

The new CFexpress cards were first confirmed to be coming by ProGrade in March 2018 and by February 2019, Nikon had announced that they were going to support the new format through firmware updates for all of their XQD cameras (except the D4/D4s). In December 2019, that firmware update came for the Nikon Z6 & Z7 mirrorless cameras, but DSLR shooters have been kept waiting ever since.

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