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SANDISK INTRODUCES the
world’s highest capacity card for professional
photographers—the 16-GIGABYTE Sandisk
Extreme III CompactFlash
Large Capacities, High
Reliability and High Performance
Ideal For Digital SLRs & Broadcast-Quality
Camcorders
COLOGNE, GERMANY, Sep. 26, 2006
– SanDisk®Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK)
today introduced the 12- and 16-gigabyte
(GB)[i] SanDisk Extreme® III CompactFlash®
cards to its award-winning Extreme III performance
line, making these the highest capacity
cards in the world. The new high-performance,
large-capacity cards are ideal for professional
photographers who shoot RAW or high-resolution
JPG files and need the performance, reliability
and capacity to capture these large files.
The new SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash
cards can also be used with the Grass Valley™
Infinity Series Digital Media Camcorder,
the first camcorder introduced in the broadcast
industry that uses non-proprietary, removable,
solid-state flash memory cards as recording
and playback media.
The new cards will have minimum write and
read speeds of 20 megabytes per second (MB/sec.)
[ii] and will ship to photo retailers by
the end of the year. The announcement was
made at the Photokina trade show where SanDisk
is demonstrating products in Hall 6, Stand
D78/E79.
“The beauty of using large capacity
cards like the 12- and 16GB SanDisk Extreme
III cards is the freedom to shoot without
worrying about filling up the card,”
said Jonathan Torgovnik, contract photographer
for Newsweek magazine and international
freelance photographer. “I shoot in
RAW mode almost exclusively and the large
files can fill up a card very quickly. Having
a large capacity card lets me focus on what
I love to do—take pictures.”
Tanya Chuang, SanDisk’s senior retail
product marketing manager, said, “The
SanDisk Extreme III line combines exceptional
performance and reliability with large capacities
to provide an ideal storage solution for
professional photographers that meets their
shooting and workflow requirements. We believe
that SanDisk will continue to be the preferred
choice by professional photographers based
on our capacity and performance advantages
as well as our commitment to the digital
photography market as a whole.”
SanDisk Extreme USB 2.0 Readers Improve
Workflow
While the speed of the card is important
for in-camera performance, card-to-computer
transfer rates are becoming an increasingly
important workflow consideration. The time
it takes to transfer images to a computer
can be a bigger bottleneck now that card
capacities have expanded into the multi-gigabyte
range. The SanDisk Extreme USB 2.0 reader
is designed to transfer images as quickly
as possible.
SanDisk Extreme III cards use SanDisk-developed
ESP (Enhanced Super-Parallel Processing)
technology that combines advanced NAND flash
memory chips and controller designs, 32-bit
RISC processing and leading edge algorithms
for an architecture that streamlines every
aspect of read and write data transfer operations.
In addition, SanDisk works closely with
major camera manufacturers to ensure speed
and compatibility. The ESP architecture
effectively removes the card as the bottleneck
in data storage applications.
SanDisk Extreme III cards have the industry’s
widest guaranteed operating temperature
range from a minus 13F (minus 25C) to a
185F (plus 85C). The cards also include
RescuePRO® software that allows photographers
to easily recover accidentally deleted images,
lost digital images or data.
Pricing and Availability
SanDisk Extreme III cards are available
in CompactFlash, Memory Stick PRO Duo™
and SD™ card formats. Suggested retail
prices for the two new capacities are:
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Capacities |
US$ |
CAD $ |
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| SanDisk Extreme III |
12GB |
$779.99 |
$872.00 |
December |
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16GB |
$1,049.99 |
$1,173.00 |
December |
| SanDisk Extreme USB 2.0 Reader |
|
$24.99 |
$28.00 |
November |
SanDisk Extreme III cards carry a 10-year
limited warranty in Europe, the Middle East
and Africa but will have a lifetime limited
warranty in the rest of the world. Photographers
who purchase the cards also will have access
to a dedicated toll-free number for technical
support questions. The RescuePRO image recovery
software on the cards is compatible with
both Windows and Mac and requires no driver
download or special card reader.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash
storage cards and is the world’s largest
supplier of flash data storage card products
using its patented, high-density flash memory
and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered
in Milpitas, CA and has operations worldwide,
with more than half its sales outside the
U.S.
[i] 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes
[ii] Performance based on SanDisk internal
testing.
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