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Written by Nature Sniper   
Tuesday, 26 February 2008

A compact flash replacement is on its way, going way beyond the current 300x transfer rate. The new flash media called CFast is capable of transferring data at 375MB/s. CFast is predicted to be in the market in 18-24 months.
CFast 375MB/s




With such high speed transfer rate, camera manufacturers may cut cost by not building cameras with huge buffer as temporary storage and transferring files into computers can be carried out few times faster than current ones.

Quoted from news.com
When I asked Chuck Westfall, technical adviser for Canon USA's professional products marketing division, whether CFast would catch on, he was equivocal. "It remains to be seen. What drives the market is cost and performance issues and availability," he said. Canon's caution, for example, meant it only moved its low-end Rebel SLR line to SD flash memory when the card format was very well established.

Richard Pelkowski, digital SLR product manager for Olympus America, also wouldn't commit, but he did acknowledge the general advantage of CFast. "Greater speed and greater capacity--we certainly realize the benefit of that," he said, adding that card speed not only lets images be written faster, but also lets photographers review them more easily and take advantage of features such as the side-by-side comparison in Olympus' new E-3 SLR.





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