CompactFlash (CF) Card

Lexar Professional 600x CompactFlash Card: Guaranteed High-Speed Performance

Lexar offers a comprehensive line of award-winning memory cards in various speeds, formats, and capacities, which include innovative features and valuable free software. With so many options, it's easy to find the right Lexar® solution to fit your workflow needs.

The ultimate in high-speed performance

The premium Lexar Professional 600x CompactFlash® (CF) memory card provides ultimate high-speed performance and reliability for professional photographers. Where other brands offer cards with "up to 600x write speeds", the Lexar Professional 600x delivers industry-leading 600x (90MB/s) guaranteed minimum sustained write speed. The card provides support for high-resolution UDMA-enabled DSLR cameras, lets you capture and store high-quality images and video, and dramatically increases card-to-computer transfer rates when paired with a UDMA-enabled reader. The Lexar Professional 600x CF card is available in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities. (Some of the listed storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage.)

Ultimate, Blazing-Fast Performance and Reliability

Lexar's Image Rescue software can save your photo and video files, even after they've been erased

The Lexar Professional 600x CF card leverages UDMA 6 technology to offer ultimate, high-speed performance with a guaranteed minimum sustained write speed capability of a blazing 600x (90MB/s). This means you can keep shooting whether you're capturing high-quality images or video. The card also dramatically improves card-to-computer transfer rates when paired with the Lexar Professional ExpressCard™ CompactFlash Reader or other UDMA-enabled reader, drastically reducing post-production time.

Includes Downloadable Software and Valuable Offers

The Lexar Professional 600x CF card includes the latest version of award-winning Lexar Image Rescue™ software. Image Rescue 4 provides reliable recovery of most photo and video files, even if they've been erased or the card has been corrupted. (Image or other data recovery is not 100% guaranteed.) What's more, the card comes pre-loaded with trial versions and exclusive, money-saving offers on leading Adobe® software. You'll enjoy free, 30-day trials of the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom®, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Adobe Premiere® Elements software--with discounts of up to $100 on purchases of the full software versions. (NOTE: Product appearance, software offerings, and packaging may vary depending on ship date and available inventory.)

Unmatched Performance, Reliability, and Compatibility

The Lexar team works with major camera manufacturers to ensure compatibility

The Lexar team works with major camera manufacturers to ensure all Lexar memory cards are compatible with their digital cameras - from the simplest to the most complex. The cards are also tested in the Lexar Reliability Lab, a facility with more than 800 digital cameras and memory card devices, to further ensure compatibility and performance. And all Lexar Professional cards come with a limited lifetime warranty and a free, dedicated customer support line. Designed with professional photographers in mind, the advanced technology and blazing speed of the Lexar Professional 600x CF card provides ultimate memory card performance.

Enhance your camera performance with high-speed memory

What Are the Benefits of a High-Speed Card?

Speed-rated cards are a smart investment for all photographers and offer a wide range of capabilities. A high-speed memory card can enhance in-camera performance, especially for photographers who take lots of pictures, use the video option on their camera, or have the need to shoot photos in quick succession. The true benefit, however, is in post-production work, where transferring your work from your camera to your computer can be greatly accelerated and wait times significantly reduced.

A speed rating means that each card is tested and guaranteed to be at least as fast as its stated rating. It also means that the camera can write to the card faster, and that fast readers can perform downloads from the camera faster. Lexar Professional cards are speed rated and come in standardized increments such as 40x, 80x, and 133x. The X represents the transfer rate, and 1x means the card can perform data transfer at 150 KiloBytes (KB) per second. This is important to know because you can match the capabilities of your camera and your needs as a photographer to the speed of card that's appropriate for your level of use.

Reduce post-production work with high-speed transfers

Capacity and Workflow

Increase the number of photos you can take so you never miss a shot

These are two key benefits of a high-speed memory card. Not only are you able to increase the number of photos you take, but you can improve on the speed in which you take them. But it's about more than just the number of photos a card can hold--a high-speed card is important if you are photographing a fast-paced sporting event or an important occasion.

More importantly, high-speed memory cards make a huge difference in post-production work. Digital cameras today offer amazing resolution, but with high-definition resolution comes a huge increase in file size, which means transferring your photos to your computer to edit or upload can take a really long time. But with transfer rates and upload times significantly reduced thanks to a high-speed card, photographers enjoy a huge time savings. This gives professional photographers more time for photo editing, working on other projects, and promoting their business.

Reliability

Probably the most critical component for any memory card, reliability is the single most important thing to all photographers. Whether you're shooting a family wedding or taking your own vacation photos, you need to have the peace of mind of knowing your images are all being stored safely and there will be no file corruption. A high-quality, high-speed memory card helps ensure you don't lose any images.

All Lexar Professional and Platinum level memory cards come with a lifetime warranty and full technical support. The Professional line of cards also includes the added benefit of a dedicated technical support line for immediate, specialized assistance.

Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
As I have written in reviews of the comparable Sandisk 600x CF cards, the Lexar offerings in this speed regime serve the same primary purpose: As image file sizes increase with successive camera generations, high write speeds are steadily more important in keeping the memory buffer clear during rapid shooting, so that the camera isn't halted while waiting for file write operations to complete. If your shooting does not include big RAW files and high shutter cyclic speeds, I couldn't recommend the expense of these 600x cards. But if you have to shoot RAW at full-auto speeds, they are simply worth what they cost. Using slower cards, I have been stopped during bursts of 10 or so ~25MB RAWs; with these 600x cards, never.