

32GB versions are £174 for the Lexar CompactFlash, or £208 for the Sony XQD card. Value For Money - The Sony XQD 16GB card is £128, or alternatively it's £129 for a Lexar 1000x 16GB CompactFlash card. There was some benefit shooting with the XQD card, allowing more shots to be taken without slowdown. RAW was set to lossless compression, 14-bit.
#Sony xqd card reader spec professional
** Tested with Lexar Professional 1000x 32GB Compact Flash UDMA 7 (the fastest available CF card). We tested the camera's performance at continuous shooting in JPEG, JPEG+RAW and RAW shooting and have posted the results below. Its dual XQD and Compact Flash slot meant we were able to test the cameras performance with these two memory cards. Speed - Tested with the Nikon D4 - the only camera to support XQD. The XQD card is certainly smaller than the CompactFlash card, but it's also thicker. This is easier than having to physically pull out a CompactFlash card or remember to use an eject button if available. The XQD card is designed to be inserted and removed like a lot of SD card readers and cameras, where you simply push it in until it clicks, then push it in again and it will spring out.
#Sony xqd card reader spec driver
XQD High Speed Driver needed from /memorycard.USB2.0 upto 43MB/s read / write speed lower.USB3.0 up to 125MB/s read / write speed lower.Durability for use in extreme environment.Sony's intelligent controller: wear leveling, error correction code, data refresh functions to realise stable data reading / recording.XQD Card Size Comparison CompactFlash, XQD, SDHC, Sony Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo

It's also being bundled with a reader, with the only camera that currently uses it, the Nikon D4, which is a good thing as the card costs £128 for the 16GB or £208 for the 32GB version with a USB card reader available for £28. XQD is designed to support extremely high speeds and sizes, but in the meantime the first products from Sony are available as 16 and 32GB cards with 125MB/s read/write speeds. The Sony XQD is a new memory card format designed by the same people who invented CompactFlash - the idea is that it is smaller than compact flash, but also designed to be tougher than SD cards.
