Coincidentally, less than a day after PetaPixel‘s editor-in-chief Jaron Schneider touted the benefits and quality of his trusted Think Tank’s Pixel Pocket Rocket memory card holders in an internal Slack chat, Think Tank has announced an across-the-board update to its Pocket Rocket memory card and battery wallets products. What has long been good now promises … Read more
Building upon its original CreateMate Memory Card Case, which combines memory card protection, organization, and file transferring, Pgytech has released a new version that supports CFexpress memory cards. The CFexpress CreateMate Card Reader Case comes in CFexpress Type A and Type B variants, and like its SD-exclusive sibling, also supports SD memory cards. To support … Read more
Angelbird has discontinued its massive 1TB capacity CFexpress Type A card. The $500 card was not only cheap, it promised full compatibility with Sony cameras. That might be the source to the “why” it has been taken off store shelves. CFexpress cards are confusing, which is perhaps why Angelbird’s card design is so appealing. Simple, … Read more
The Compact Flash Association (CFA) finally published a list of all certified memory cards that provide a guarantee that they will work with certain functions of all supported cameras, including Sony cameras that require the certification. Memory cards have always been confusing with their huge list of amorphous icons, speed promises, and other logos. With … Read more
ProGrade Digital Inc. announced new CFexpress 2.0 Type A Gold Series memory cards that promise “optimal capacity for RAW cinema-level video shooting.” The new CFexpress Type A Gold-class cards come in 240GB and 480GB capacities and include the same “industry-leading quality” as the ProGrade CFexpress 2.0 Type A Cobalt 160GB card, per the card maker. … Read more
Lexar is the first memory card manufacturer to bring support for the new, much faster CFexpress 4.0 standard to Type-A cards, the format that only Sony uses in its high-end mirrorless Alpha cameras. Somehow beating Sony to the punch, Lexar will release the Professional CFexpress 4.0 Type-A card under its “Gold” series branding, although the … Read more
The Japan-based memory manufacturer Nextorage released the fastest CFexpress Type A card made yet, promising read and write speeds of up to 950 MB/s. Nextorage released two new CFexpress Type A cards in Japan that leap above the current options on the market with some extremely impressive speeds in support of Sony cameras. Type A … Read more
Photographers who use any of Sony’s most recent cameras are no doubt familiar with CFexpress Type A cards. As Sony is the only manufacturer to use the format, the cards are usually expensive. There are some cheap options out there, but unfortunately, they still come with a cost. When compared to other electronics, there is … Read more
Lexar has announced two new additions to its professional line: a relatively affordable CFexpress Type A “Silver” series card and a new “Gold” series microSDXC UHS-II card. The CFexpress Type A card is undoubtedly the most interesting of the new cards for enthusiasts and professional photographers. It is an interesting card in part because it … Read more
Sony’s new a9 III is the first full-frame interchangeable lens mirrorless (ILC) camera to use a global shutter, which unlocks some serious performance like 120 frames per second shooting. It doesn’t however, have support for the latest CFexpress specification. The new sports and action-focused mirrorless camera features a 24.6-megapixel CMOS global shutter image sensor that … Read more