Okay, this isn’t directly photography related but I’ll share it anyway since it seems like a decent deal:
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Adorama One Day Sale–EXPIRED
Sorry folks, it appears there was a miscommunication between myself and Adorama. When I read the mail on Monday that said tomorrow, I thought that it meant the sale was on Tuesday. Instead, the sale was from 9:00 AM Monday until 9:00 AM Tuesday so this offer has expired. Even this was confusing as last night when I was preparing this article I did not see the special prices, so this was a major miscommunication or something.
I sincerely apologize for the mistake.
Ron
Friday, November 11, 2011
REVIEW: Lexar USB 3.0 Dual-Slot Reader–Speed up your file transfers for less than $40!
Generally speaking I'm not a super impatient person (stop laughing honey). When I'm ready to download my files to my computer into Lightroom I generally just stick them in my SanDisk ImageMate (pictured below) and go about my business. However, when I travel I'm generally in a hurry so the delay to wait for my cards to download from my old reader has become a problem. In fact, I realized that my cameras are a lot faster than my once "blazing fast" ImageMate, so I don’t even take it with me to travel anymore. 
When I was in New York recently at the Photo Plus Expo I ran into my friend DeMaris, who works at Lexar, and he flashed his pearly whites and said “I’ve got something I know you are going to like”. Now DeMaris and I had hung out at the Vancouver Olympics as our booths were next to each other at the Media Center, so I knew from that experience that when he says something like that then something cool was sure to follow.
In this case it was the Lexar Professional USB 3.0 Dual-Slot Reader which he had told me about via email when it was first released. I was busy with way too many photo shoots my first couple days in New York, so it wasn’t long before I got a chance to try out this new card reader.
The first thing I noticed and appreciated was that I could put the Compact Flash AND SD cards from my Canon 1D Mark IV (which uses both formats) in at the same time and both my Mac and PC would recognize it as two separate drives*. This allowed me to copy from both at the same time with very little observable dip in performance (according to Windows displayed transfer rates). On the Mac I didn’t have any numbers to look at, but what I noticed is that the files copied faster than from my camera. In fact, when I was done copying the files I tried it again from my camera, and it confirmed my suspicion – this reader was definitely faster.
I tried it with both my SanDisk Extreme 60mb/sec and Lexar Professional 600x (90mb/sec) cards as well as my SanDisk 30mb/sec SD cards, and I observed an improvement. This was a huge help for me because I was dumping my cards at 2:00 AM in the morning when I needed to be up again at 6:00 AM, so speed was of the essence. I was thrilled to be able to do both formats at the same time and I was able to dump 3 CF and 2 SD cards in the time it took me to get ready for bed. That’s exactly what I needed!
* = This device is inactive until you insert a card, so you’ll see one drive for each inserted card. I like this over my Image Mate which created 4 drive even if no card were inserted.
Conclusion
As Photography expenses go, this thing is dirt cheap at < $40 (as of the time of this writing). Even if you don’t’ have a 1D Mark IV, odds are you have a point and shoot that takes SD to go with with your DSLR that (usually) takes CF cards. The dual support over a fast USB connection to a fast hard drive (critical) makes this a no brainer purchase (or a great holiday gift). However, that’s nothing new or revolutionary. What’s great about this device is its USB 3.0 support and fast transfer speed.
NOTE: I found the performance was typically limited by my hard drive performance (i.e., my DroboPro was 4x faster than my slow laptop drive) with both USB 2.0 and 3.0. Copying to a super fast SSD drive is where things really get fun as you can see the real performance of this device.
I also loved the small compact size (you can toss it in your pocket).
I tested it with my Windows 7 64-bit Lenovo ThinkPad W510 (replaced by the W520) as well as my 17” MacBook Pro running Lion and it worked fine.
Click here to learn more or to buy yours. See the sale below (limited time) to pick up some new cards while you are at it.
Lexar Two Pack Sale
Click here to save on Lexar cards right now. The Lexar Professional 600x (90mb/sec) is my preferred compact flash card right now, but you can get sufficient performance out of the 400x (60mb/sec) cards too. See my article entitled “Is a faster Compact Flash card worth the extra money?” to learn more. Based on my experience, cards that can do 30mb/sec or faster have been fine for HD video on my Canon 5D Mark II and 1D Mark IV.
Disclosure
I was given a copy of this device along with a Lexar Professional 600x CF card for testing.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Major Price Drop on SanDisk Flash Memory Cards!!!
Click here to get 8GB for as little as $29.45 and16GB cards for as little as $48.95 (when you buy 3 or more – single prices are $55.95 and $33.99). This sale includes both SDHC and CF cards and much more.
Wondering if you need 90MB/s or 60MB/s? Read my article “Is a faster Compact Flash card worth the extra money?” to find out if the faster cards will make any difference in your camera.
This offer is for a limited time and features free shipping from B&H.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Lexar Rebates are back!!!
Lexar has joined the rebate part and has some great deals here on B&H’s website, so now is a good time to stock up on fast compact flash and SDHC memory!
Stop waiting on slow compact flash readers
While you are shopping for Lexar products be sure to check out my favorite CF card reader for my Mac:
Lexar Professional UDMA FireWire 800 CompactFlash Card Reader
Demaris at Lexar sent me a Lexar Professional UDMA FireWire 800 CompactFlash Card Reader for review on my MacBook Pro a few months ago and it’s been awesome. This thing screams on the FireWire 800 port, so I’m bummed when I go back to my PC and use the glacially slow Sandisk ImageMate 12-in-1 USB reader! If you use a Mac and UDMA CF cards, you’ve gotta get one of these readers – its fast and not super expensive.
If you are a PC user and have a ExpressCard slot, all is not lost. In fact, for less money and better performance you’ve gotta check this bad boy out:
Lexar Professional ExpressCard CompactFlash Reader
When I was at the Olympics in Vancouver this past February the guys at Lexar let me play with the then un-released Professional ExpressCard CompactFlash Reader. At that point in time I was easily seeing 80+ MB/sec transfer rates which is faster than I can move files to one part of my hard drive to another! Well since then they’ve finally released it and this UDMA 6 device can transfer at speeds up to 133mb/sec!!!! At $34.95* as of the time of this writing, this thing has to be the best bargain on the planet!
* = All prices are as of 10/22/2010 and are subject to change without notice.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
How do I rescue lost photos and video from a formatted card? (PhotoRescue 3.1 Review)
For the Photographer, there’s one feeling that is similar to, but much worse than the dreaded “oh, no – I locked my keys in my car”. It’s the realization that you just formatted the wrong storage card (potentially with family memories that can’t be replaced). Sadly for me, it’s happened more times here recently since video has come on the scene. I’ve tried to save precious moments in HD video with my Canon 5D Mark II only to remember that Lightroom doesn’t copy video files until AFTER I’ve formatted the card!!!! Precious moments lost forever – OH NO! Or are they?
I’ve used a product that used to come free with SanDisk Compact Flash (CF) cards called RescuePro which worked great for photos, but sadly it didn’t work for video (at least not from my 5D Mark II). I’ve even had some programs I’ve tried to use show me that it recovered videos, but when I tried to play them back they were rubbish (unplayable on most playback software and unusable when I did find something to play them).
How Does it Work
Here’s a simple walk through of screenshots that show this program in action. I tried it out on my old Transcend 120x 8GB CF card that I bought in 2007 and it took about 10 minutes (probably less) to recover my 6 videos. They were bit for bit the same as the originals and worked great as if I had never formatted the card in the first place.
 Select your CF/SD card drive |  Select a location for the recovered files |
 Progress during the recovery phase |  Videos and photos located, now pick the ones to restore |
 Copy your desired recovered data to your disk |  All done |
As you can the user-interface is simply, friendly and effective. It should work with your CF & SD cards as well as USB sticks and much more. For more information visit support page here.
Advanced Features
What I really like about this product is that it does the one (and most important) thing right – in a simple way. It recovers photos and videos without any hassle are hard questions in the Quick Recovery option. This will work for nearly every restorable scenario. However, if you want have some control over what is or isn’t restored (i.e., no huge files over a size limit) then you might find the Advanced Mode shown above very useful.
The Advanced mode can also be used to load/restore card backups.
Afraid to erase your memory cards? – Try this!
I know some people have a half dozen or more memory cards because they are so afraid to erase their memory cards prematurely. Well, if you fall into that camp you are going to love the Card Image Backup feature shown above! This basically does a bit by bit (raw read to the disk i/o geeks out there) backup of your CF card so that you can format it without fear as your data is safe in a backup that may be restored at any time in the future.
Test your cards performance
This feature (under the Tools button) is super cool because it allows you to see if your card is functioning properly, but also helps you to understand what kind of performance you are REALLY getting from your memory card. In my case, I’ve always wondered what does 120x mean in terms of throughput speed on my Transcend 120x speed. Well now I know, it means 17MB/sec – COOL!
Try it FREE today
This is a cool product with many uses beyond just an emergency restore scenario. Try it out and see if it works for you! If it does, you can buy this program at a really great price using this special edition created for users of this blog:
NOTE: This version only differs in the link URL from the version you find on the site.
Disclosure
If you purchase this product using the link in the special edition in this article, I will get a commission. Thanks for supporting the blog!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sandisk Rebates are back
For those of you who missed out on the Sandisk rebates last time, they are back:
| 3 Pack Links | Price for 3 | Rebate for 3 | Final Cost for 3 | Final Cost Per Card |
| SanDisk 16 GB Extreme III Compact Flash Memory Card | $ 288 | $ 90 | $ 198 | $ 66 |
| SanDisk 4 GB Extreme III Compact Flash Memory Card | $ 93 | $ 60 | $ 33 | $ 11 |
| SanDisk 8 GB Extreme III Compact Flash Memory Card (my favorite card) | $ 146 | $ 80 | $ 66 | $ 22 |
| SanDisk 16 GB Extreme IV Compact Flash Memory Card | $ 575 | $ 200 | $ 375 | $ 125 |
| SanDisk 4 GB Extreme IV Compact Flash Memory Card. | $ 180 | $ 90 | $ 90 | $ 30 |
| SanDisk 8 GB Extreme IV Compact Flash Memory Card. | $ 332 | $ 200 | $ 132 | $ 44 |
| SanDisk 4 GB, Extreme III Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Memory Card, Class 6 | $ 120 | $ 60 | $ 60 | $ 20 |
| SanDisk 8 GB, Extreme III Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Memory Card. | $ 204 | $ 90 | $ 114 | $ 38 |
| SanDisk 4 GB, Extreme III Secure Digital (SDHC) Memory Card. | $ 84 | $ 60 | $ 24 | $ 8 |
| SanDisk 8 GB, Extreme III Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Memory Card. | $ 147 | $ 90 | $ 57 | $ 19 |
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