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Lexar Professional Compactflash Card Review

Author: Bee H
Published on: Jan Tue, 2009
Today we are going take a look at the new Lexar Professional UDMA 300x Compact Flash Memory Card. This card has been designed with the digital SLR camera user in mind and the heavy speed requirements associated with such products.

Digital SLR Cameras are not only increasing in pixels but also in processor speed and so there is a need to store the information from the sensor rapidly and reliably. It is essential that the storage medium keeps pace with the processing power of the latest SLR cameras and so Lexar have come up with the latest CompactFlash memory card, the Lexar Professional UDMA 300x.

The standard write speed of most cards was about 1-2mb per second, this as increased through 4x, 8x etc to a point now where 133x write speeds have become common place and many professional photographers have memory cards of this speed and higher in their bags.

The Lexar Professional UDMA 300x Compact Flash Memory Card was built to provide ultimate high-speed performance with an emphasis on reliability for the professional and advanced enthusiast photographer. The card work in unison with a UDMA enabled reader to supply dramatically increases card read and write transfer rates.
The card has also been design with a certain amount of future proofing as a lot of the latest SLR professional cameras come with the next generation of high-resolution UDMA technology. The Lexar Professional UDMA CF card is also available in smaller sizes including 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities.

So how much better can it be to use one of these card, what kind of advantage does it give? Well the simple answer is that speed equals time. The memory cards can write information far quicker saving time which means no delay in being ready to catch the next great shot. We tested this on a standard digital SLR camera from Cannon using a 1gb memory card. We held the shutter for 10 seconds and managed to record just 8 frames. Removing the card only and replacing it with the Lexar Professional UDMA 300x CompactFlash memory card saw an increase in frames from 8 to 16. So we doubled the frame rate just by replacing the memory card. Now that's what I call an easy upgrade path.

The Lexar memory card as an official read/write speed based at a minimum write speed capability of around 300x (45MB/sec). Quiet amazing when you think about it. The memory card also includes some useful little Extras. The Lexar Professional UDMA 300x card includes Lexar's own Image Rescue ™ 3 software. This is a very useful bit of software and should help you recover any deleted images or files without to much trouble and this includes corrupted data retrieval. The Image Rescue ™ 3 software can also make sure that all the images you do not require anymore can be removed correctly and the memory card reformat securely to ensure no one can access your used data.

The read speeds on the Lexar Professional UDMA 300x card are very fast and this means that you will spend less time downloading the data to your computer or checking shots etc. although. Another good point is that the memory card comes with a limited lifetime warranty and a dedicated customer support line that's free to customers. A useful thing when you consider the cost and value of such a memory card.

We where very impress with the speed of this memory card and if you are in the situation where time is money then I would recommend this card highly. The true advantages of having such read and write speed buffer clearing ability is a very useful point shooting fast moving action shots such as sports or wildlife.

So in summary, the things we liked about the Lexar Professional UDMA 300x CompactFlash® memory card:
• High-speed UDMA performance and reliability, especially when used with an appropriate UDMA reader.
• Dramatically improves the transfer speeds of data from your card to any other storage device.
• Includes the very useful and easy to use Image Rescue ™ 3 software.
• And finally, it comes with a Limited lifetime warranty.
The negative points are:
• This card is only for the deep of pocket and may be overkill for general photographic requirements.
• That said if you can afford it you will not be disappointed.
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