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A new source for XQD media
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T O Shooter
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Waiting for the fellows that said XQD was the Betamax of camera storage to come along.
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I am happy there's another manufacturer of XQD media. I was getting a bit nervous with a single supplier out there, and hopefully there will be some price competition, too.
I'm also a happy XQD user. After paying Nikon over $400 for the repair of a bent CF pin in a D4s...and I don't even use the CF card...I'm cheering more and more for the XQD card.
However, I understand that you're waiting for some interesting attacks on XQD, and this post doesn't supply them.
So, in order to get some responses, I'll suggest that I get far less noise in my photographs when I save them to an XQD rather than a CF card. I shoot uncompressed RAW, always do ETTR, and use water from Lourdes to clean my sensor, so it MUST be the CF card that adds about a stop of noise to my photographs compared to using the XQD card.
Now THAT'S how you start of chain of nonsense replies.
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I've used them, but for some reason not in any of my cameras except for a Phantom 4 Pro. I think the only reason is because the camera stores (online or local) where I've been buying cards have not pushed that brand, instead mainly selling SanDisk, Lexar, and Sony.
I have used their SD cards or micro SD cards in all sorts of other devices without any problems.
TG
Deleon was a an autocorrect imposed typo. I obviously meant Delkin.
T O Shooter
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Not really. Just validates my point made years earlier that XQD is here to stay. Not that I needed another supplier to do that.
So, in order to get some responses, I'll suggest that I get far less noise in my photographs when I save them to an XQD rather than a CF card. I shoot uncompressed RAW, always do ETTR, and use water from Lourdes to clean my sensor, so it MUST be the CF card that adds about a stop of noise to my photographs compared to using the XQD card.
Now THAT'S how you start of chain of nonsense replies.
TG Frerichs
mrgs1
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It's all good news, shame the Lexar re-incarnation never happened?
NotASpeckOfCereal
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Nice. This gives me a measure of relief in respect to general XQD availability, and I also hope this helps bring the price back down a bit.
Chris
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Presumably Sony made the decision to not license the technology to Longsys.
mrgs1
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Didn't Lexar and SanDisk collaborate in it's development? I thought they would of had some rights to produce it? SanDisk didn't bother and went CF Fast I would of thought it would of been pointless to buy the rights to Lexar if you can't produce a product.
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You are right on the money there.
Longsys purchased only the rights to the Lexar brand name. My assumption is that they did this as marketing strategy given that Lexar is obviously a very well known brand name. When Micron decided to pull out of this market, the top people in the camera media division immediately left and shortly thereafter started ProGrade Media.
ProGrade Media has made the decision not to make XQD and is sticking with CFAst 2.0
I cannot talk about this any further without breaking a couple of non-disclosure agreements so I choose to stop there.
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Tom Frerichs
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Actually, the XQD specification was announced by SanDisk, Sony, and Nikon. It was then picked up by the CompactFlash Association for development. SanDisk then decided not to produce any XQD, but Micron (Lexar) stepped in. The Micron sold the Lexar brand, but the Chinese buyers decided not to produce XQD.
Delkin, the company whose news release started this thread, released CFexpress cards a year ago, with production supposed to be sometime in 2018Q3. It has the same form factor as XQD and is supposed to be backward compatible. So, it makes sense that Delkin would be able to make XQD cards.
TG
You will have to wait a while, he saw a streak across the sky last night (Peresid Meteor Shower) and has been running in circles, waving his arms over his head, and yelling "We all are going to die" ever since.
IainD
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I didn't know that. I was expecting Lexar XQD to reappear. My D5 seems to prefer Sony for some reason, but my D500 and D850 don't seem to have a preference.
A very reliable and technically excellent user on another forum uses Delkin cards and is very pleased with them
IainD
I use St Croix River water exclusively.I am happy there's another manufacturer of XQD media. I was getting a bit nervous with a single supplier out there, and hopefully there will be some price competition, too.
I'm also a happy XQD user. After paying Nikon over $400 for the repair of a bent CF pin in a D4s...and I don't even use the CF card...I'm cheering more and more for the XQD card.
However, I understand that you're waiting for some interesting attacks on XQD, and this post doesn't supply them.
So, in order to get some responses, I'll suggest that I get far less noise in my photographs when I save them to an XQD rather than a CF card. I shoot uncompressed RAW, always do ETTR, and use water from Lourdes to clean my sensor, so it MUST be the CF card that adds about a stop of noise to my photographs compared to using the XQD card.
Now THAT'S how you start of chain of nonsense replies.
TG Frerichs
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Yes they are. All high end memory cards are expensive.
For instance ProGrade Digital SDXC UHS-II V90 Memory Card (128GB) are $190 each
Compare to Sony Professional XQD G Series 128GB Memory Card, $230 each. Granted the XQD is a little more expensive but also faster (400Mb/s instead of 250).
Indeed the fastest Sony SD size card, the Sony SF-G128/T1 High Performance 128GB SDXC UHS-II Class 10 U3 will take you back $215 and it tops at 300 Mb/s
You can use slower but still good performance and cheaper cards. For instance the 200Mb/s ProGrade Digital SDXC UHS-II Memory Card 128 GB retails for $95 : 80% of the performance for half the price.
XQD does not offer that choice right now.
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