SanDisk today announced that it is now shipping an upgraded family of SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash (CF) memory cards to better meet the needs of professional digital photographers. The entire series of SanDisk Extreme IV high-performance memory cards has received a 12.5-percent speed boost up to 45 megabytes per second (MB/s)1 and the newly-released 16-gigabyte (GB)2 card is twice as large as previous capacities. Following performance testing with the Nikon D700 and Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III digital cameras, the 16GB SanDisk Extreme IV card offers the fastest write speed of any card at the 16GB capacity. Top-line performance can be expected when using the card with most or all current Canon and Nikon digital SLRs.
The 16GB SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash memory card is available now and it carries a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $399.99 in the United States.
