The Sports Photo Guy

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 [...]

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Pretec’s recently announced 433x cards are now shipping, while Hoodman has upgraded their RAW 280X cards to 300X.  See how they both fared in my real-world tests in the D300.

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The newest crop of SLC cards from most of the smaller card makers have effectively re-centered our test results, raising the bar for the elite group of cards.  Consequently, many cards have been downgraded as the truly fast cards stand out while the older MLC-based cards have dropped to the realm of the also-rans.  New [...]

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Pretec, masters of the ridiculous in CF card size and outlandish speed claims, have unveiled first 433x and most recently 666x rated CompactFlash cards.

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Sony couldn’t have wanted to make a CompactFlash card, so that must be why they didn’t put much effort into it.

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