The Sports Photo Guy

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 Crap List.

Get the scoop on these two very different cards below.

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My buddy Earlane in Lexington, KY – an accomplished shooter and gadgetmaker – and I were “talking shop” recently and he posed the old question about what exposure mode I shot – manual, shutter priority, aperture priority, or program mode.  My answer?  All of them!

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Transcend 600x

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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PhotoFast 533x Plus

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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By popular request, I’ve added a section to the Computers article that gives recommendations for off-the-shelf systems if you’re not into building/upgrading your own.

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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