Just announced: New Lexar ARMOR series offers SD and CFexpress cards made of stainless steal

Lexar announced their first 8.0 generation SD card and a new series of super rugged ARMOR card series. They are yet not available for preorder but nearly all current SD cards (Amazon / BHphoto), CFexpress Type A&B cards (Amazon / BHphoto) are discounted. Here is the press text:

Lexar memory cards include the CFexpress 4.0, ARMOR series, and SD 8.0.

Lexar presents four new memory cards leveraging the next-gen PCIe 4.0 performance. The lineup includes the TYPE-B DIAMOND, GOLD, SILVER, and the TYPE-A GOLD card, all enabling seamless 8K RAW video shooting. In particular, the Lexar Professional DIAMOND CFexpress 4.0 Type B Card won the ‘TIPA WORLD AWARD 2024’ and boasts industry-leading speeds of up to 3700MB/s read and 3400MB/s write1.

The Lexar ARMOR series include GOLD SD UHS-II and SILVER PRO SD UHS-II cards, the world’s first memory cards made of 316 stainless steel. They offer IP68 waterproofing, dustproofing, and bend-resistance—ideal for outdoor filming. For the SD8.0 card, Lexar Professional GOLD PRO SDXC Express Card delivers up to 1700MB/s1 read speeds—over 5x faster than SD4.0 cards.

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Some of the current card discounts:

 

First totally FAKE DJI mirrorless Full Frame image goes viral on the web

Everyone is talking about this picture on the Chinese Weibo accounts. But unfortunately, it’s not a real DJI full-frame camera, but a photoshopped Leica M9 Titanium Edition with Hasselblad elements :) Ok, now that we know it’s a fake, let me say that this modified version still looks beautiful! I would like to see this kind of design on a non-Leica one day!

One a more serious note: Some Chinese photography accounts do believe that DJI will not launch a FF camera this month. So we might have to wait a lot longer before we see such a model.