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Essential Wedding Photography Gear | Top 10 List
Essential Wedding Photography Gear | Top 10 List
After more than 14 years as a professional photographer, I’ve compiled a list of my top ten essentials that any photographer needs to photograph a wedding. Some of the things are really obvious, but there’s some that you might not think of that I’ve found to be crucial from taking literally hundreds of thousands of pictures…
How to Obtain the Maximum Performance through your Memory Card Readers
ProGrade Digital prides itself in providing the most reliable and fastest memory cards and workflow readers in the industry. All of our readers have a minimum of a USB3.2/3.1 Gen2 interface, which is capable of maximum theoretical speeds of 10Gb/s that is equivalent...
Monitoring The Health Of Your Digital Memory Card And Refreshing It To Regain Performance Using ProGrade Digital Refresh Pro™
Farshid Tabrizi, VP of Engineering ProGrade DigitalProGrade Digital’s Refresh Pro™ software application provides users with a tool to perform a fast “factory-original” low-level format – effectively restoring the linearity of data writing and thereby ensuring maximum...
What’s Next in Removable Storage?
ProGrade Digital attended the Photo Next show in Yokohama, Japan on June 18th and presented it’s views on where the industry is headed in the area of professional removable storage and workflow in the coming decade. With particular emphasis on emerging technology...
SD™ Express: A Comparison To CFexpress™
Recently, the SD™ Association (governing body for SD card development and standardization) announced finalization of revision 7.0 for the card SD specification. This revision now includes a section 8.0, which adds an NVMe® compliant, PCIe® interface option. Like the announcement of CFexpress™ 1.0 made by the CompactFlash® Association in August of 2016, the PCIe interface with NVMe provides a scalable path for improved performance in flash-based storage devices, and conforms to industry standards in use for devices such as SSDs.
Does Data Transfer Speed Matter?
Defining Read and Write Speeds for Photography and Motion Capture
From the earliest days of marketing memory cards for use in digital cameras, manufacturers have used performance (transfer speed) as a measure of product “value positioning.” One underlying reason for this is that some applications can truly benefit from a faster transfer speed, and so the measure of performance has had real value to certain buyers…
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