The massive image: In an period the place telephone cameras proceed to enhance and even start to see skilled utilization, some photographers nonetheless desire their trusted DSLRs. One draw back to those cameras is the costly expandable storage choices. Nevertheless, Icy Dock might have the answer to these issues.
Icy Dock is an organization that focuses on producing storage enclosures for a lot of completely different kind components, similar to 2.5″, 3.5″, and M.2 drives. Whereas primarily specializing in server-related merchandise, Icy Dock’s newest creation branches out to digicam storage.
For years, DSLR cameras used SD playing cards as an ordinary for increasing digicam storage. The answer mixed excessive storage capacities with a small kind issue. Nevertheless, the trade has not too long ago begun to undertake a brand new storage medium: CFexpress.
CFexpress playing cards have one notable profit in comparison with their predecessors: total velocity. The quickest SD playing cards max out at round 300 MB per second, whereas an ordinary CFexpress Sort B card can attain speeds of as much as 2 GB per second. Sadly, CFexpress playing cards are expensive, normally costing over $1 per gigabyte.
Icy Dock hopes to unravel this downside with the CP130, which converts the CFexpress port into an ordinary M.2 slot. Since M.2 SSDs have seen vital value drops currently, usually having prices of $0.04–$0.06 per gigabyte, the corporate’s answer offered photographers with quick storage at a hefty low cost.
The CP130 helps many alternative M.2 sizes, together with 2230, 2242, 2260, 2280, and 22110. The adapter solely permits PCIe 3.0 drives and is restricted to 2 of the 4 out there PCIe lanes, limiting SSD speeds to a most of two GB per second, which continues to be as quick as CFexpress.
Icy Dock helps quite a few cameras, together with:
- Canon EOS R3
- Canon EOS R5
- Canon 1DX
- Canon C300 Mark II
- Canon C500 Mark III
- Nikon Z9
- Nikon Z7II
- Nikon D500
- Nikon D850
- Fujifilm X-H2S
- Panasonic LUMIX GH6
It is usually suitable with “most” DSLR/MILC cameras and camcorders with a CFexpress Sort B slot.
The adapter incorporates a screwless design to permit simple storage swaps and helps many mounting choices. The CP130 hasn’t launched but, however an Icy Dock competitor not too long ago started promoting its personal M.2 adapter, which retails for $210, so it is truthful to anticipate the same MSRP upon launch.