Alik Griffin tested the most popular memory cards in the Nikon D850 DSLR camera: XQD, UHS-II and UHS-I SD. Here are the results: Memory Cards USB 3 read USB 3 write Nikon D850 XQD LEXAR 2933X 344 MB/s 202 MB/s 115.45 MB/s SONY G 400MB/S 330 MB/s 188 MB/s 113.84 MB/s SONY M 150MB/S 347 MB/s […]
Several readers have already received their Nikon D850 cameras. Adobe has not yet updated their software with D850 support. You can use a free binary editor like HHDsoftware and change one byte of the string “D850” to “D810”. This will allow both Lightroom and Photoshop to open the D850 RAW files. Additional Nikon D850 […]
After the news that all Lexar memory cards will be discontinued, there have been some discussions about the speed of the different SD and XQD memory cards. I found some tests performed by Lexar that you may find interesting – the first one is a comparison between the Lexar 64GB 2000x SDXC UHS-II ($94.82) and Lexar […]
Lexar published new speed test results for their latest XQD memory cards on a Nikon D500 camera – see the video below for more details: XQD cards test results on the Nikon D500 Lexar XQD Professional 2933x XQD 2.0 64GB vs. Lexar XQD Professional 1400x XQD 2.0 64GB:
Cameramemoryspeed published their comparison/test results of different Sony and Lexar XQD memory cards with the Nikon D5 – the Lexar Professional 2933x XQD 2.0 was the best performer followed by the Sony G Series XQD:
Lexar Japan published a new video where you can see the difference in performance between XQD, CF and SD cards in the new D5/D500 cameras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUeRqA41E8 The video is over 8 minutes, so here are the actual test results (number of shots taken displayed on the graph):
A quick update: the memory card slots in the Nikon D5 camera (XQD or CF) can be exchanged at a Nikon service center (for a fee of course). This info can be found on page 15 of the D5 brochure (thanks RMJ and akkual).
The Latest Photo Rumors The Latest Leica Rumors