ProGrade Digital CFExpress Type B Card and Dual-Slot Card Reader REVIEW | MacSources

Best-in-class digital memory cards.

In my pursuit of the “ultimate camera package,” I have acquired two amazing CFexpress cards to accompany my Canon R5 on jobs — the ProGrade Digital CFexpress 2.0 Memory Card 1700. There are two versions — Cobalt and Gold — which are both designed to provide uninterrupted, cinematic capture of RAW 4K or 6K video content. These cards boast best-in-class performance and the promise that users can capture video with confidence. With that in mind, I wanted to take a closer look at them and really test them out.

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ProGrade Digital has four different types of CFexpress Type B Cards — 1600 Cobalt and Gold and 1700 Cobalt and Gold. They are aptly named because the number that’s included indicates what their read rate is. For example, the 1600 Cobalt has a read rate up to 1600 MB/s. Both the 1600 Cobalt and Gold versions are optimized for 4K, UHD, high bit rate MPEG-4 and Raw Video while the 1700 versions of those cards are also optimized for 8K, 6K, and 5K video recording. The 1700 Cobalt and Gold cards are the ones we are focusing on in this review.

ProGrade Digital was one of the first product designers to offer CFexpress cards to consumers. In 2018, they announced…