SanDisk boosts SD card speed
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 27, 2008 at 11:44am
SanDisk says it’s increased the speed limit on digital photography by upping the speed of SD flash memory cards to 30 megabytes per second with the new SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition SDHC card.
The 50 percent burst in performance lets consumers shoot like the pros with DSLRs using continuous shooting mode, and shortening the time spent offloading images, says Susan Park, director of consumer product marketing for SanDisk’s performance cards. The cards, due in September, make it possible to record 39 images in continuous shooting mode at 4.5 frames per second with a file size of 6.0 MB JPEG L Fine per image.
The manufacturer’s suggested retail price is US$64.99 for the 4GB card, $109.99 for the 8GB card, and U.S. $179.99 for the 16GB card. Simultaneously, Nikon formally announced its new Nikon D90 DSLR camera. It’s the industry’s first DSLR camera to take advantage of the new SanDisk Extreme III Edition 30MB/s SDHC cards. The Nikon D90 is also the first DSLR to offer movie recording capability, making the largest capacity 16GB SanDisk Extreme III card a great option.
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