New super fast CF cards from Photofast, Sandisk and Transcend tested

Rob Galbraith tested the new range of CF cards which are rated up to 97MB/s (Sandisk Extreme Pro range). Also tested at compactflash readers using Express 34/54 cards (HEAR THAT APPLE?!?). At 64GB, we can get over 2000 24mp or 21mp pics on one card. For pro bodies like the 1D and D3 series, which have the battery capacity to handle taking that many pictures (or the smaller cameras with grips), that means fewer stops.

Now if manufacturers will feature dual memory slots for all cameras to have backup.

Rob Galbraith CF card test

Very interesting! The Firewire UDMA reader from SanDisk gets 66MB/s or so -- pretty fast, but I like the idea of using an ExpressCard34 reader, since the MacBook Pro only has a single Firewire800 port, making it hard to chain an external drive to my machine while using a firewire reader.

The Sonnet card reader they test has a note on their website that says "Temporarily not recommended for for Mac systems with greater than 2GB of memory." Wonder why -- time to do a Google search...

Also note it's not OSX.6 snow leopard compatible.

Also note it's not OSX.6 snow leopard compatible.

Another reason why I made sure to get the last generation of laptops when I needed a 15" and the new ones announced. Got the ExpressCard Slot and running Leopard

Perhaps Apple will put the ExpressSlot in, they did add FW back to the 13". The SD reader, though cool in theory, when compared to an ExpressCard slot, more so on the larger models, seemed to be a bad call to me. But even Apple isn't perfect, very close though

The cards look interesting. Used my 5D Mark II for the first time the other week, but only had 4 Gig Cards and have been looking for larger ones....

Very interesting! The Firewire UDMA reader from SanDisk gets 66MB/s or so -- pretty fast, but I like the idea of using an ExpressCard34 reader, since the MacBook Pro only has a single Firewire800 port, making it hard to chain an external drive to my machine while using a firewire reader.

 

The Sonnet card reader they test has a note on their website that says "Temporarily not recommended for for Mac systems with greater than 2GB of memory." Wonder why -- time to do a Google search...

Can't you plug the firewire reader into the hard disk plugged into the laptop? This seems to work fine on my older Macbook (not the pro model). The cardreader shouldn't need very much power.

Bill