The CFExpress cards announced at NAB are hitting the market ahead of Nikon's update. With Nikon set to expand their XQD Media Card slot to support CFExpress and bring 12-bit RAW to play, it looks like XQD will disappear overnight, in favor of the once and future king known as CFExpress. And while the high-speed card spec shares many characteristics with its lower-end cousin, it hasn't been widely available. Until now. Lexar, ProGrade, and SanDisk have all hit the market with new cards for CFExpress supported cameras. Lexar Lexar announced their line of CFExpress cards at NAB last Spring, and they are now available starting at 120GB for $199.00 and 256 GB for $399. The Lexar CFExpress cards have a max read/write speed of 1750MB/s and 1000 MB/s respectively. There was also a 512GB model announced at NAB, which maxes out at 1650MB/s, but no word on availability for that model. All cards are rated to be shock/vibration and X-ray proof., and are now available for pre-order, with no actual shipping date given. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 18 September, 2019