Austrian manufacturer of high-end capture media solutions Angelbird has just introduced its latest range of CFexpress Type B cards: Although the Angelbird AV PRO SE and AV PRO SX are targeted at different use cases, they share many common features and are built for customers who have one thing in common: The need for speed. You might think that the camera media you record on is not that important, since all brands use standard technology anyway and you mainly pay for the brand… but that’s not the case, as there are quite big differences between makes and models of recording media. A common pitfall is that the manufacturer claims very high read/write speeds and these cards can indeed reach the stated speeds, but only for a very short period of time. As soon as the card gets a little hotter (or lower in available space), the write speed drops significantly, resulting in dropped frames or even corrupted clips or unreadable images. image credit: Angelbird Angelbird AV PRO SE & SX Enter Angelbird, who have put a lot of research and development into creating custom controllers and memory architectures for their products. Their latest offspring are two quite similar, yet somewhat different CFexpress cards: the Angelbird AV PRO SE and the AV PRO SX. While the first model (SE) is available as a 512 GB model with a sustained write speed of 800 MB/s (850 MB/s max), the second model (SX) is only available in a 160 GB variant, but this...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 14 December, 2021