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Ilse Jurrien
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Friday 6th, March 2009
Posted by: Ilse Jurrien

These portable image storage devices are the perfect digital companion accessory for professional as well as advanced amateur digital photographers; Both Jobo photo storage devices are available in four different storage capacities. For professionals that need high-end secure back-up of their digital photos, the new Jobo GIGA Vu SONIC portable photo storage device features an ultra quick download speed of up to 1 GB of data in 30 seconds, TRUE RAW decoding of numerous RAW image files, four hard disc capacities up to 250 GB, a large high resolution 3.2” color display and numerous photo functions.

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100GB CompactFlash card from Pretec

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Saturday 7th, March 2009

Pretec, known to always be around at every consumer electronics show, brought a collection of obscure memory cards along, among which is a 100GB CompactFlash type II memory card. It so happened that I use a Nikon D3x digital SLR during photographing at the PMA 2009 in Las Vegas, and I was very curious to see if this 100GB CF working sample would function well in Nikon's flagship. Formatting was not the problem; however, the Nikon D3x camera doesn't like it at all. On its display, everything that is not supposed to blink, is blinking and I decide that this card will have to go without the D3x.

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SDXC flash memory

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Wednesday 7th, January 2009

The next-generation SDXC (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification, announced today at the 2009 International CES, dramatically improves consumers' digital lifestyles by providing the portable storage and speed needed to store weeks of high-definition video, years of photo collections and months of music to mobile phones, cameras and camcorders, and other consumer electronic devices. The new SDXC specification provides up to 2 terabytes storage capacity and accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second. The new SDXC memory cards will enable camcorders to provide longer, professional level HD video recording with a small form factor.

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SanDisk SDHC 32GB and 16GB Cards

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Thursday 31st, January 2008

Giving photo enthusiasts the freedom to take more digital pictures and shoot more video, SanDisk Corporation increased both capacities and speeds in its SanDisk Ultra II flash memory line with the introduction of 32- and 16-gigabyte (GB) SDHC cards and an 8GB SDHC Plus flash memory card. The announcement was made at the photo industry’s PMA 2008 International Convention in Las Vegas. Ideal for today’s camcorders and point-and-shoot digital cameras that can record both video and still images, the cards offer faster read and write speeds of 15 megabytes per second2 (15MB/sec), up from previous speeds of 10MB/sec read and 9MB/sec write in the SanDisk Ultra II line.

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Imation and Memorex flash memory

Posted by: Ralf Jurrien Monday 12th, March 2007

Imation Corp, a worldwide leader in removable data storage media, will showcase several products under its Imation and Memorex brands on the eve of the PMA 07 International Convention & Trade Show. The Memorex and Imation brands of Imation Corp deliver a variety of innovative optical and flash solutions for professional photographers and photo enthusiasts, as well as consumers and business professionals. Many of these products will be on display at the DigitalFocus press event. at Treasure Island in Las Vegas. “When working with digital images either for business or fun - you need to be confident that you have reliable solutions to transfer, store and protect your creations.”

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Kingston USB flash drive

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Monday 12th, March 2007

Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced its new DataTraveler Reader, a USB 2.0 Flash memory drive that provides up to 4GB of Flash storage, and includes an onboard SD/MMC expansion slot for reading nine different Flash memory card formats, including the new Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) format. “Consumers today are more mobile than ever before and the need to store and share digital information has increased dramatically,” said Joe Teng, Flash product manager, Kingston. “The DataTraveler Reader is a powerful way to capture, save and share pictures, videos and documents in a ultra-compact form factor,” added Teng.

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Not so long ago, flash memory was expensive and very limited when it came to its storage capacity. The latter is relative, since back then, we were already impressed by 64MB, whereas these days, we don’t even blink twice at 32GB. Prices have dropped drastically and the storage capacity has increased significantly. Yet it seems we have only started to see the possibilities of flash memory and what it is capable of. During the PMA 2009, it will become clear what SDXC actually is and we will again be confronted with the message that this card has a potential to store 2TB of data. Some wonder why we need this kind of huge capacity, or raise a discussion whether it is dangerous or not to store all your data on just one card. What do you do in case of losing it? This is a discussion that seems to repeat itself, and the end of it does not yet seem near. Flash is growing both strongly and quickly and seems to replace many storage media at an incredible speed.



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