The Sports Photo Guy

Five new SDHC cards were put through my D7100 RAW Burst Test: two from Samsung (“Pro” and “Plus”), and new entries from ADATA, Kingston, and Pretec.  None were anything to write home about; the top cards remain the Delkin Elite 633X, SanDisk Extreme Pro 95MB/s, and Lexar Professional 600x.

The next generation of wireless networking speeds are here with the advent of the 802.11ac standard.

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The Best

Nikon’s new “flagship” DX camera, the D7100, boasts a lot of features.  Unfortunately, a sizeable buffer is not one of them, and effective RAW shooting speed can suffer greatly if you’re not using a top-of-the-line SDHC card.  My RAW burst test shows just what an impact card speed has on high-speed shooting of RAW images.
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Adobe Labs has released a public beta of PhotoShop Lightroom 5.

Nikon has announced new firmware updates for the D600 and D800.

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Patriot EP Pro

Two cards from Patriot Memory’s revamped SDHC line and a new Panasonic card all get my recommendation.  But did any of the unseat the current speed champ?

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