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Digital Camera UK
|January 2023
Angela Nicholson puts five leading UHS-II cards to the test
The humble SD card dates from 1996, and today pretty much everyone with a digital camera is likely to own at least one SD card. Conceived to provide a more compact alternative to the rugged but bulky Compact Flash card format introduced in 1994, the user-friendliness of SD cards has helped them stand the test of time. Although they’re falling out of favour for the latest premium camera bodies, where CFexpress is preferred for ultra-high res stills and 4K/8K video, there’s lots of life in the SD card format yet. Here are our five best-buys…
Lexar Professional 2000x 128GB SDXC UHS-II Card Captures high-quality images and extended lengths of Full-HD and cinema-quality 4K video. 
This story is from the January 2023 edition of Digital Camera UK.
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