The Sports Photo Guy

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?

Mostly a disappointment, sad to say.

While an improvement over the 433x card, and a decent performer overall, the 667x doesn’t set any records.  A solid B+ in the JPG test and a 5.5 fps and 25 MB/sec rate in the RAW test make it a solid backup card, it still doesn’t approach the Extreme IV / Ducati series cards.

Unfortunately, my FireWire 800 workstation is being overhauled, so I won’t have card-to-computer numbers for a few weeks.  I’m hopeful that the speed of this card will be more impressive in that benchmark.

Buy Extreme Ducati Edition Cards from Adorama: 4GB, 8GB
Buy Extreme IV Cards from Adorama: 2 GB, 4GB, 8GB