All of you shooting 4K video, 36MP images and on the future 50MP Cameras 😉 will love this! Sandisk announced the new “World’s Highest Capacity SD Card for High Performance Video and Photo Capture”!
There are three of them you can preorder at Adorama and BHphoto:
SanDisk 512GB for $729.00 at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
SanDisk 256GB for $359.00 at Adorama (Click here).
SanDisk 128GB for $189.00 at Adorama (Click here).
Here si the full press text:
SanDisk Premieres World’s Highest Capacity SD Card for High Performance Video and Photo Capture
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 11, 2014 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today launched its 512GB** SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card, the world’s highest capacity SD™ card on the market. The new offering is designed to meet the demands of industry professionals who require the most advanced gear available for shooting 4K Ultra High Definition (3840x2160p) video, Full HD video (1920×1080)1 and high-speed burst mode photography.
“As an industry leader, SanDisk continues to push the boundaries of technology to provide customers with the innovative, reliable, high-performance solutions they have come to expect from us,” said Dinesh Bahal, vice president, product marketing, SanDisk. “4K Ultra HD is an example of a technology that is pushing us to develop new storage solutions capable of handling massive file sizes. The 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I card is a tremendous advancement that enables professionals to reliably store more content on a single card than ever before.”
Built for the Pros
Since SanDisk unveiled its first 512MB SD card in 2003, capacity demands have increased exponentially and the new 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I card represents a 1,000-fold capacity increase in just over a decade, yet maintains the same size footprint. SanDisk’s most powerful and highest capacity SD UHS-I memory card yet, the 512GB card delivers write speeds up to 90 MB/s* and UHS Speed Class 3 (U3) recording speed for high resolution, real-world color and stutter-free 4K Ultra HD video1. Transfer speeds up to 95 MB/s* move data quickly for efficient post-production workflow.
The 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I card delivers both the speed and capacity needed to support 4K Ultra HD video capture, enabling users to shoot tremendous amounts of content without disrupting the moment.
The new offering comes with key features designed for pro-level action:
- Built for and tested in harsh conditions—temperature proof, water proof, shock proof, and x-ray proof2
- Lifetime limited warranty3
- RescuePRO® Deluxe data recovery software download offer4, for bringing accidentally deleted images back to life
SanDisk Extreme Team member Sebastian Devaud, renowned director and producer, relies on cutting edge technologies to continuously advance his productions. “I am always interested in new technologies to help improve how I work and the quality of my results,” said Devaud. “With higher capacities, I have greater flexibility to capitalize on the moment and let the camera roll without worrying about the performance of my equipment.”
“The new 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I card offers incredible speed and capacity,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “Our Pocket Cinema Camera customers shoot in every type of circumstance and location, and get amazing wide dynamic range RAW images capturing the brightest highlights and darkest shadows at the same time. The additional capacity of the SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I card will extend the creative freedom for our customers shooting in RAW and open up the ability to use wide dynamic range RAW files with even more productions.”
Pricing and Availability
The SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SDHC/SDXC memory cards are available worldwide in capacities of 512GB, 256GB and 128GB. The 512GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I card will be available for $799.99 (MSRP).
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They must have the A7s in mind…definitely getting one for mine. XAVC files take up a lot of spacce
XAVC S really doesn’t take up that much space. The BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera has a 200mbps ProRes codec (vs the 50mbps A7S). I’d imagine this 512GB card is intended for future 4K cameras with 200mbps+ codecs.
+1
Yup. And forget about 4K raw. That’s north of 300 MB/s @24 fps.
In 4:4:4 and 14Bit
If I remember correctly what a friend calculated (he used an excel tool he created) the Sony in 10bit 4:2:2 takes 1.65GBit/s which is around 200MB/s.
Meaning the Shogun can record up to around 2.5h Raw on an A7S.
Might be correct. The figures I found was probably for a 12 bit RED camera. Still, these new fast Sandisk cards cannot nearly cope with raw 4K. External recorder and (very fast) SSD is the proper solution for those wanting to use 4K at the highest quality.
@deadcowboy:disqus the BMPCC also has RAW, that’s about 3.5GB a minute from my measurements, so it eats a current 64GB card. Having said that, you can buy a second BMPCC and a 64GB card for the cost of the 512GB card!. This will all be moot in 18 months though when 512GB costs the same as current 32GB card and We’ll be leaving the footage on the 512GB cards and tossing them into a box for safe keeping 🙂
Yep… I don’t see this as being needed by the A7s unless the Atomos folks are going to build a Ninja that uses SD cards.
UHS 3 but only 95mb/s???
Shouldnt that be higher?
How many cameras can write faster than 95mb/s?
Nevermind, misread your comment. These aren’t uhs3, but uhs1 with class 3 specs.
If this much capacity can be cramped into an SD card camera manufacturers should have built in high storage capacity in their compact cams in the future.
OK. Great news…but the 128gb card is very fragile. The plastic “shell” bends easily and I have seen a few broken ones and read that this is not uncommon.
I hope they sorted that out with these new ones.
that makes sense only for 4k, for 50, even 200mp you it is much better to have a few 32 or 64gb cards. I think even for 4k 520 might be overkill.
but a 512 mirco sd for my phone would be welcome… (for music)
That will take you approximately 200 full days to listen to all those songs….with no sleeping. 🙂
The man likes his music.
A 4min music track in FLAC format can be anywhere between 25-40mb.
So, if we take the maximum file size for 4mins of music (40mb), we can see that a 512GB card can take 35 days of music, or there abouts.
Format matters.
And 24/192 can take even more.
That matters only if you got golden ears and amazing headphones with an outstanding frequency response….or if you edit audio and really need to pull stuff you have yet to hear in the original file.
Maybe, if he has the 700 bucks for the 512 card, he can also get a pair of German Maestros or Beyerdynamic T1’s….or maybe the AKG K 1000
Imo 192KHz is overkill for listening, but 24 bit cannot hurt.
Price of RX100 matk 3 , damn
This speed indexing is a joke unless no deep knowledge of the system is available…
These are UHS I cards, with the UHS3 write speed index and the Sandisk own lable of 95MB/s.
What does that mean:
UHS I bus speed is 156MB/s
UHS 3 write speed is minimum 30MB/s
Sandisk 95MB/s means peak rate that’s available in their lab…
For us photo-/videographers it means:
UHS I cards with ws UHS1 (10MB/s) or SDHC/XC with ws 10 (10MB/s) are minimum required for cameras with XVAC50 codec
High MP count cameras shooting simultanously raw/jpeg have one image with around 30 to 60 MB which takes them on ws 1 cards 3 to 6 seconds to write it to the card – meaning 10 shots in the buffer may take up to 1 minute to be written to the card.
With UHS ws 3 cards it looks a bit better for stills photography on high MP count cameras.
Cameras shooting 4k internally would need such cards because they would support up to calculated 240 Mbps.
The 64GB UHS II Write Speed 3 Sandisk extreme pro is at amazon.de available for 191,-€.
Now imagine the price for 512GB – I’d assume around 900,-€
Now imagine losing/misplacing it. Or a full card going bad and become unreadable. Ugh. (At this time I don’t see much point for it for still-photography. It could be useful video maybe?)
That is what I was thinking. I would probably use one strictly for 4k footage but I would much rather break it up into 64gb cards.
As 4k Raw would likely be possible via external recorder anyway, I’d would do the same and limit my card’s capacity to 64GB for two reasons.
64GB will soon become one of the standard sizes, meaning it will drop in price. Secondly a black out of one card will not be too difficult, as a spare card is affordable.
1080p at XVAC 50Mbps would be approx. 2.5h on a 64GB card
2160p at 200Mbps would be approx. 45 min on 64GB
(anybody correct me plz. if wrong)
My first memory card for my A100 cost about $$100-200, and was either 1gb or 512mb…
So wow.
so technology exists long time ago… imagine how much they are making just selling old ($)hits…
not enough, I need at least 4TB SD card at write/read 256MB/s
That’s all? I need a 40TB SD card at 256 GB/s. lol.
It would be time to make a “inside RAID 5” card using 3 independent flash chips.
You can find CF adapter with dual-sd card raid 0 (mirror) only you can also find sata to dual sd with the same configuration.
how could I put it into my camera?
I’m just waiting for the next Amazon Lightning deal on that 512GB.
It would suck to loose a $729 card…
It’s a bird, it’s a plane!….no, it’s a SanDisk SD card moving at the speed of light.
SanDisk with added WOW!
Stupid as a soup sandwich
Says the guy who’s never had a soup sandwich.
Can’t wait to get one picture away from maxing it out and my camera says….”CARD READ ERROR.”
That was a good one 🙂
To put it it perspective- how far things have come- Apollo 11’s computer had a memory of 4kb (kilo bytes)!
@SAR_Admin:disqus or anyone else, does this mean that with one of these cards the a7s can record internally possibly with firmware update or is it completely unable to and it will have to be the next version a7s?
somehow the lock switch broke off my sandisk 32 gb card and it was stuck in the locked position. I couldn’t use it or fix it. I eventually had to replace it. I can only imagine my frustration if that was a $730.00 card. It seems pretty ridiculous for anyone to purchase this.
It’s a circuit switch, you can take this switch from another SD card and use it on this.
glad it broke. next time buy 2x16gb and save 500$.