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Five new SDHC cards tested in D7100

June 11th, 2013 · No Comments

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 633XSanDisk Extreme Pro 95MB/s, and Lexar Professional 600x.

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Wireless Upgrade

May 15th, 2013 · No Comments


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

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D7100 RAW Burst Test

May 4th, 2013 · 2 Comments

The Best

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 PhotoShop Lightroom 5 Public Beta

April 15th, 2013 · No Comments

Adobe Labs has released a public beta of PhotoShop Lightroom 5.


Adobe Creative Suite 6

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Nikon Releases Firmware Updates for D600, D800

April 2nd, 2013 · No Comments

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

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Sweet Deal on Samsung SSDs

March 29th, 2013 · No Comments

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Three “P’s” Make the Grade

December 21st, 2012 · No Comments

Patriot EP Pro

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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