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In the fall of 2016, I found myself in a warmly lit, large and bright conference room accentuated by a beautiful sunny day streaming in from wide windows in the Silicon Valley office of Micron. Micron, the at-the-time parent company of memory card goliath Lexar, was celebrating the memory card company’s 20 year...
A decade or two ago, CompactFlash cards were where it was at. The flash card format won out over rivals thanks to a tradeoff that allowed -- by the standards of the time -- generous capacity and relatively compact dimensions. It certainly didn't hurt that the CF form factor was just about large enough to squeeze in...
At the end of June Canon released an advisory for their new flagship Canon EOS 1DX Mark II warning users against potential image corruption issues when recording still images to SanDisk CFast cards.
Despite the advisory being only recently released, Canon has already developed a fix for the problem. Firmware v.1.0.2 is...
While we work on Part II of our Canon 1D X Mark II field test (see Part I here), a potential image corruption issue has been announced by Canon.
The issue is apparently isolated to SanDisk-brand CFast memory cards. When recording a RAW file, the bottom right portion of your image can be corrupted. JPEG files, on the...
Today, Lexar has unleashed upon the world a barrage of flash storage units and accessories that will speed up your photo storage and transferring to speeds you’ve never seen. Whether your workflow involves an SD card, CF card, XQD card, or any combination of the above, Lexar's new lineup has you covered.
First up is...
SanDisk has unveiled a new memory card that the company is billing as the fastest around, the SanDisk Extreme Pro CFast 2.0 memory card. With 450MB/s read speeds, and 350MB/s write, you can transfer a 100GB file in just four minutes.
The CFast standard is a variant of a traditional CompactFlash card that uses a Serial...