If you shoot a Sony Alpha, you’re in the one corner of the camera world that uses CFexpress Type A — and that changes how you should shop. Sony chose the smaller Type A format so its compact bodies could fit a clever dual slot that takes either a Type A card or a UHS-II …
Month: April 2026
The first time a card failed on me, it was a 64 GB SanDisk that suddenly wanted to be formatted before it would show me anything — and “anything” was a full day of photos. That panic is the reason I learned this process properly instead of clicking the first scary button. The good news …
A counterfeit memory card doesn’t usually announce itself. It copies your first few photos perfectly, formats without complaint, and sits in your camera looking exactly like the real thing. Then, weeks later, you fill it past a certain point and discover that the “256 GB” card was really an 8 GB chip with lying firmware …