Do You Need to Use a Cfexpress Card With the Sony a7S III?
The Sony a7S III is the first camera to use CFexpress Type-A memory cards, but it also uses SD cards. Do you really need to shell out for the expensive newer card type?
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Sony Launching Tough CFexpress Cards Capable of 1700MB/s
The CFexpress memory card format is gathering momentum, and appears to be the logical successor to Compact Flash, CFast and XQD cards. By the end of 2019 there will be cameras from Nikon, Sony, Panasonic and Canon that use this card format. Something which never happened with the half-hearted partial adoption of the CFast and XQD formats. ProGrade Digital were first out of the gate by demoing a 1TB CFexpress card at several earlier trade shows, and now Sony have joined in by unveiling the TOUGH series CEB-G128 (CFexpress Type B). Whilst the ProGrade Digital card has the edge in …