New Sony Memory Stick

[Fliques Osman]

For all the Sony gear heads out there, Sony has introduced a new Memory Stick. The Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX is aimed at those that need quick read and write speeds. In their press release, Sony states that the new memory sticks have read rates of 50 MB/s.

How fast is 50 MB/s? That’s enough to capture 190 jpeg bursts in a minute! Also the press release states that “copying a 32GB AVCHD movie file to your PC takes just 11 minutes. That’s more than twice as quick as transfers using today’s fastest SDHC cards.”
It comes in 8/16/32 gb.

On a side note, just wish that Sony didn’t have their “own” memory sticks, that way, instead of Sony’s R&D team working on a closed technology, the technology could have been passed down to SDHC cards.

 

[zijital]

On a side note, just wish that Sony didn’t have their “own” memory sticks, that way, instead of Sony’s R&D team working on a closed technology, the technology could have been passed down to SDHC cards.

I'm guessing they're not too different from each other. The EX1 can record to memroy stick or SDHC cards via adapters. If they were extremely different it wouldn't be that easy to do.

It won't be long until SDHC cards catch up in speed.

 

[Fliques Osman]

Looking forward to SDHC's having higher read and write speed - that way, if any camera company introduces a DSLR with RAW it would be a perfect match.