Well, there shouldn’t be much I need to tell you about this product that you can’t glean from the label there, except the initial price point. $1,500. The current retail price for my camera is below that. But, that aside, holy crap that’s an impressive card. If you take out that second mortgage and get one, please let me know how it is.
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SanDisk Extreme Team Photo Contest
SanDisk, maker of speedy CF and SDHC cards, and a beloved staple of the digital photography world, is holding a photo contest. Four categories, crowd-selected finalist, SanDisk’s Extreme Team is picking the final winners. What’s at stake? A year’s membership in said Extreme Team, your picture shown in a gallery in New York, and oh yeah, $1,000 cash.
If you’re curious, hit the external link to go to their Facebook page, where all the magic is happening, apparently.
Spring Expo Starts Tomorrow
So, tomorrow is day 1 (or, for you Carmel shoppers, the only day) for this year’s Spring Expo. For those who’ve never been to one, twice a year we have a whole gaggle of our reps come in to our local brick-and-mortar Indianapolis stores and show off all their stuff, answer your questions, etc… Generally it’s a good time to get to try out some rare equipment you might not get to see on shelves normally (like Leica’s line-up, Olympus’ Top Pro Lenses, Nikon and Canon’s tilt shifts, etc).
And of course there’ll be specials, deals, sales, limited offers, you name it bouncing around, too, and I’ll be posting some of those on our homepage tomorrow. There’ll be buyers on hand to relieve you of old equipment and liberate some funds for shiny new toys, if you’re so inclined. It is spring, after all, out with the old, in with the new.
This time around you’ll be able to chat with reps for Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, Manfrotto, Gitzo, Elinchrom, Sandisk, Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, Hoya, Tenba, Lowepro, ThinkTank Photo, Lastolite, Avenger, Mamiya, Leica, Skooba, Induro, Kingston, Westcott, and more.
Expo is at our downtown store Friday and Saturday April 23 and 24 from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. It’ll be at our Carmel store Friday only 5:00 until 7:30 pm.
Clearing out Sandisk Ultra II 2gb SD cards
So we’re sitting on a moderate quantity of Sandisk’s Ultra II (Class 4) 2 gb SD cards. They’re going for the stupendously low clearance price of $5.97 each right now. Once they’re gone well, baby they’re gone. It’s a last-chance opportunity here because there aren’t any rain-checks, sleet-checks, body-checks, or IOUs -just cheap 15mbps SD cards.
Linked here: Sandisk Ult II 2gb SD clearance cards.
Black Friday Hits Roberts, Is Better Online
It’s that time of the year again. Can you hear the gnashing of teeth, the snapping of bones, the cries of anguish, terror, and pain? You got it, it’s Black Friday once more. So, while everyone else is out fighting for their lives in crowds of increasingly miserable shoppers, why don’t you, the internet-savvy consumer with enough time to be reading this post, take a skip over to our homepage and check out some of our same hot Black Friday deals without leaving your home. It’s easier to enjoy a cup of coffee this way, I promise.
What’s on highlight? Well, among other things:
First off, from now until December 18th we’re happy to say we’ve dropped the minimum order to qualify for FREE UPS ground shipping. Now, any order over $200 will get it shipped UPS Ground to the contiguous 48 states for no charge. And, if that wasn’t hot enough, any camera bag $49 or over will ship free as well.
Now, these free shipping offers still only apply to order placed on our online cart system. If you place it with a sales representative, either in store or over the phone, we can’t offer you the free shipping. It’s just one of those things, weird, we know. But, yeah.
Need more? How about a Coolpix S210 for $69.97? That’s 8.1 megapixels and 3x optical zoom in a stylish, slim brushed metal body. If you’ve been sold on the megapixel wars by the marketing people, don’t hesitate because of the lower megapixel number. On small-sensor cameras, 7-10 megapixels will lead to better noise and dynamic range, and if you only ever show your pictures online or don’t ever print larger than 5×7 or even 8×10, you don’t need more than 6 megapixels to make sharp, excellent pictures anyway. This’ll be a good choice for anyone who wants a no-fuss camera for taking snapshots of their life, wherever that might be.
More? How about the very popular, high-performance Sandisk Extreme III series cards (CompactFlash or SD), in a very convenient 4GB size for only $19.97, your choice? These high speed cards will make your camera sing when put to the test at your kids sporting events, or when you need to machine-gun that DSLR catching birds-in-flight.
And that’s just a couple. Check out our homepage for even more, and remember that our everyday lowest prices of the season are already in place on all the most popular DSLRs, lenses, high-end point-and-shoots, and even more! So, why fight for your life in the surging masses, when you could do all your imaging shopping online with us?
Raw Footage and the Sandisk Pro
Finally, a new videocast demoing the, ahem, raw speed of Sandisk’s new Extreme Pro series CF cards, rating a massive 90 megabytes per second sustainable write speed. Yowza. What’s that mean in the real world? Why not watch the video?
The Voice of Raw, Episode 10
0:22 – Fotorosa
1:12 Nikon D3s
3:37 – Sandisk Extreme, Extreme Pro
5:23 – Nikon AF-S 85mm DX Macro
6:24 – Lensbaby Props
7:00 – Facebook Fan Shoutouts
Sandisk Announces Extreme Cards So Fast That Peregrine Falcons Feel Underendowed
Sandisk has gone official with its new lines of high-performance memory cards. At the top of the pack (if not at the top of the world) is the new Extreme Pro line. Available only in CompactFlash, the Extreme Pro line sports maximum write speeds of up to 90 megabytes per second (that’s 600x, for those of you used to the older terms). It’s also the not only UDMA, but it’s the newer UDMA 6 spec (which means it’s actually faster than your hard drive, very likely). As if to reinforce that these are, indeed, just for pros, they come in three sizes starting at 16 GB and working up to 64 GB.
Next up are the new “Extreme” line cards. No “III”, no “IV”, just plain old extreme. Apparently slotting above the Extreme IV line, but below the Extreme Pro line (and just-as-apparently replacing the discontinued “Ducati” line), the Extreme line comes in both CompactFlash and Secure Digital High Capacity flavors.
The CF flavors sport a jaunty 60 MB/s maximum write speed (400x), and are obviously UDMA-enabled (although since they don’t specify they’re probably the slower UDMA 5 spec). Oriented to be a bit more consumer-friendly, they come in three sizes from 8-32 GB.
And, lastly, we have the Extreme line in its SDHC flavor. Now extending up to a rather impressive 32 GB in capacity, these new SDHC’s feature 30 MB/s maximum write speed (200x), and, if Sandisk is using its classes properly, the note that it’s Class 10 should intimate that the slowest it’ll go is 10 MB/s. The SDHCs are available in four capacities.
- 4 GB Extreme SDHC
- 8 GB Extreme SDHC
- 16 GB Extreme SDHC
- 32 GB Extreme SDHC
Hot Kingston Memory Deal
I’ve been helping Nick slug through the new inventory list for the website (staff shortages the past couple of weeks and internet interruptions have made it something of a mess to catch up on), and hidden in there I found this little gem:
Kingston’s Elite Pro 133x Compact Flash Card – $24.97
Now, as you probably don’t know, the 4GB version of this card has been the staple of my shooting for the past year (I currently have two of them). Running at about 20 megabytes/second (133 x 1.5 kb/s = 199.5 = 19.95 mb/s, close enough for me), they’re fast enough for me to chug 10mb raw files at 5 frames per second for about 14 shots, and if I lay off the continuous drive it’ll clear the buffer in about 10-20 seconds I’m off again. Probably not for sportsshooters, but for your everyday joe that’s plenty fast enough.
And, while Kingston plays third fiddle to Sandisk and Lexar’s reputations it seems, their cards are certainly reliable in my experience (again, used two of them exclusively for a year, they’ve survived my washing machine and my attrocious habit of hot-swapping them in and out of readers and cameras.)
And, they’re 25 friggin’ bucks. You know that’s a nice price. A year ago I paid 40 bucks for the 4 GB one.
Sandisk Ultra, Sandisk Extremes Apparently Popular
American-based Sandisk’s cards (and I’m going on a limb and guessing particularly the Ultra and Extreme III / Extreme IV series cards from them), seem to be quite popular among the readership over at Digital Photography School, with them snagging a notable majority after 2 weeks on the poll.
Survey Results Captured on July 22, 2009
And, while it doesn’t hurt our feelings any to see Sandisk doing well, they’re a wonderful company, Roberts should point out these polls shouldn’t dissuade you from Kingston (my card of choice right now, actually), or Lexar (very popular among pro users). All three of those companies produce very reliable cards these days and should be considered equally.
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