Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: dwswager on April 26, 2016, 09:59:52 am
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Has any company made or anyone found a USB 3 Multi-Card Reader with XQD 2.0 support? Looking for a solution for CF, UHS-II SD and XQD since I shoot a Nikon D810 and D500 now.
The only think I can find is the Lexar Professional Workflow modular system which is fine sitting on my desk, but I'm looking for a more portable solution and something less cumbersome than carrying 3 individual direct plugin readers.
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OK, this doesn't exists! But it should. I find it baffling at this point that no one would build a card reader that would support:
CF - UDMA 7
SD - UHS-II
XQD - 2.0
CFast - ?
I realize XQD and CFast are both specialty card formats (one of which will die before long with CF) with very limited appeal, but there is a substantial film and photography market for this.
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I'm not sure they'll make one with all those technologies. CF is big enough, to have a second slot the same size for CFast, plus sizeable one for XQD and SD.
You really are better off with the pro workflow, or using a HyperDrive to dump into, then from that SSD to your laptop.
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I'm not sure they'll make one with all those technologies. CF is big enough, to have a second slot the same size for CFast, plus sizeable one for XQD and SD.
You really are better off with the pro workflow, or using a HyperDrive to dump into, then from that SSD to your laptop.
I agree it won't happen, but it's not about the size. It will be the known fact that the industry is killing off CF and unless either XQD or CFast die a quick death, neither will see significant mass market penetration. With UHS-II SD at the speeds they are, very few people need a faster card. I own a D500, shoot sports and would speculate that less than 1% of owners would ever need XQD speeds in shooting action. I don't!