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SanDisk announced today that it has added a 16GB model to its Extreme IV series of CompactFlash cards. Developed for the latest UDMA-enabled readers and cameras, the 16GB SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash card  is capable of 45MB/s (300x) read and write speeds.

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. The announcement was made at the Photokina trade show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in Hall 5.1, Stand A20.

SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash 45MB/s (300X) memory cards offer advanced technologies that are fully compatible with all CompactFlash cameras including the latest UDMA-enabled cameras. SanDisk Extreme IV CF cards have undergone internal testing with many leading manufacturers’ cameras and DSLRs, such as Canon’s EOS series, Nikon’s D300 and D3 cameras, the Sony Alpha A700, and the Olympus E500 and E3 cameras. Depending on the camera used, the increased performance of the SanDisk Extreme IV memory card line may help reduce the delay between shots, enabling photographers to take more photos overall. The high-speed cards let all photographers save time and improve their workflow with faster card-to-computer data transfer speeds.

The 16GB SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash memory card is available now for a suggested retail price of $399.99.

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