The Sports Photo Guy

Here are some great deals for photo enthusiasts:
SanDisk Extreme III 30 MB/sec Compact Flash, 4GB – $19.95 with free shipping.

ATP Pro Max USB 2.0 All-in-1 Memory Card Reader – $8.99

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Never believe the label when it comes to manufacturer speed claims – they are almost always based on unrealistic test conditions.  A reader wonders why his 533x card can’t achieve anywhere near 400x speeds.  See why below.

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SanDisk’s new Extreme Pro and Extreme lines of CompactFlash cards promise transfer rates of 90 MB/sec and 60 MB/sec respectively, compared to the 45 MB/sec claimed for their Extreme Ducati cards.  Talk about night and day…one of the new cards turns in blistering performance, especially in RAW shooting, while the other makes it on the [...]

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Now that they’re back in stock, I thought I’d highlight the Transcend 600x CompactFlash cards that quietly slipped into the RAW and JPG shooting tests a few weeks ago.

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I was recently contacted by the nice folks at PhotoFast and asked to try out some of their new 533x UDMA CompactFlash cards.  Given so many also-rans in the CF field, could this relative newcomer really be a contender?  You might be surprised.

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I put the Pretec 667x 8GB through the D300 RAW & JPG shooting tests.  Is this the world’s fastest CF card, or just another disappointment?

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Transcend has announced a new UDMA-enabled CompactFlash card rated at 600x speed, available in 8GB and 16GB sizes.  No word yet on pricing or availability (the cards are not in stock on Transcend’s site or anywhere else I can find, though I did encounter one person who Sweden who claims to have one).
Meanwhile, Pretec is [...]

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