Even though the vast majority of consumer cameras and camcorders are using the SD card format these days, there are still a number of professional cameras that use the larger but faster CF format. If you’re looking to score a deal on some super-fast CompactFlash, the range of Lexar Professional 1000x UDMA7 CFcards are now on sale for up to 62% off.

The Lexar Professional 1000x CF cards uses something called UDMA 7 technology. This allows the memory cards to get industry leading 1000x minimum guaranteed read transfer speeds. That works out to 150MB/s. These cards are well-suited for DSLRs that utilize high burst rates, for example, or higher end camcorders that want to capture 1080p full HD, especially 3D video. Speaking of video, these Lexar CF cards support the Video Performance Guarantee VPG-20 specification for professional-quality video.

Of course, to take advantage of those super fast UDMA 7 speeds, you’ll need to have a UDMA 7 enabled card reader. With that combination, you’ll vastly improve your workflow, getting the pictures and videos from your camera to your computer in a much faster or more efficient manner. And since it’s coming from a well-known and respected brand like Lexar, you can be sure you’re getting reliability and quality too.

The 16GB card is on sale for $69.66 on Amazon, down from the list price of $185.40. The rest of the capacities are also on sale. You can pick up the 32GB for $128.79 (save 62%), the 64GB for $349 (save 40%), or the behemoth 128GB card for $524.50 (save 47%). And yes, you get free shipping too.

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Most devices these days sure use smaller (and slower) SD Card technology, but high-end DSLR cameras from Canon, Nikon, and Sony still keep CompactFlash alive for performance and capacity reasons. The new XQD format as a variation of CompactFlash and follows in the same direction, trying to keep ahead of SD by borrowing the PCI Express (PCIe) high-speed serial communications link interface from computers. Using the PCIe interface, Sony’s XQD memory cards are capable of achieving a stable, continuous, fast shooting and recording of very large RAW images as well as deliver blazing fast data transfer rates of up to 1Gbps. This translates into about 125MB/s, write and read. Sony believes this could support 100 FPS RAW image captures.  Nowhere near the military’s 1.8 Gigapixel imaging system at 10FPS, but hey, we’re not the military are we?

To make sure you are well equipped right from the get go, Sony has also introduced a USB 2.0/3.0 compatible XQD card reader, a $44.99 MRW-E80 card reader model that plugs in with USB 3.0. Then, there’s also a $44.99 QDA-EX1 adapter that plugs into laptops with ExpressCard slot.

Pricing for XQD cards are QDH16 ($129 USD) and QDH32 ($229 USD). XQD will be able to exceed 2 terabytes capacity eventually, according to the the CompactFlash Association, which developed the format.

XQD will also be able to exceed 2 terabytes capacity eventually, according to the the CompactFlash Association, which developed the format. Second and third generation versions of PCIe double and quadruple transfer speeds to 250 MBps and 500 MBps. The initial cards will use the first generation interface, but PCIe provides for backward compatibility so that newer devices will be able to use older XQD cards.

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