Pergear Affordable CFExpress Type A Card

[@dominic-james]

I also bought one a few months back, and it works a treat. I particularly like it on my Sony A7IV when I'm shooting stills; the buffer never fills up, which is a dream.

[@thomasfransson]

Nice! I can imagine this being super clutch for burst shooting

[@photosbyjames_]

did you buy the prime or the standard card? also which raw format have you been shooting stills on? im also looking for recommendations and other peoples experience with the pergear :D

[@Jeo-What]

I have been using the PERGEAR CFexpress Type A 1TB (Min 700MB/Max 800MB write speed) cards for few months now on a Sony A1 shooting 30FPS bust mode with sports photography at 50MP without any issue so far. Due to cost vs capacity vs speed, I switched out two of the 64GB Lexar 64GB 2000x SDHC UHS-II cards and bought and tested the 260GB card first before diving into the 1TB cards. Great cards especially after the firmware 2.01 update as the Full Format speed is a lot faster now.

[@thomasfransson]

That's awesome! I've not shot a lot of heavy bursts so this is great to hear.

[@Quaglietto]

beautiful images I am very impressed, it looks like a movie

[@thomasfransson]

Thank you very much!

[@shamrockisland]

After time your cards get slower ?

[@thomasfransson]

No, just thrown around, popped in and out of cameras, card readers and all that ;)

[@bernardocuesta4217]

hey how are this cards going? im having a hard time deciding

[@thomasfransson]

It's working fine. Has been my main card for pretty much everything I've shot on the FX30

[@gianlucagianferrari]

Hello. My 2 Pergear Type A 260gb get so hot in my Sony A7RV, even without taking any photo, and drain a lot of battery, almost double a SD Sony Though. Made many test, with or without lens attached. Does anyone have the same issue??? i don't want to damage my new A7RV since all the body get hot

[@thomasfransson]

Cfexpress cards gets hot.

[@gianlucagianferrari]

Thanks. All of them? My friend with se same camera use Lexar and hasn’t this issue. Maybe I’ll try a Lexar or something else

[@thomasfransson]

Yeah pretty much, that's why they're made out of metal to help with heat dissipation. It's basically a big heat sink. There's lots of information about this on google if you want to learn more about how CFExpress cards work and that sort of stuff. It's also why some newer cameras don't always have CFExpress card slots - to prevent them from internal heat issues.

[@gianlucagianferrari]

@@thomasfransson thanks. I did hours and hours of research on Google to try to understand if the strong heat was normal or not. I didn't find much. The most interesting thing are some articles on PetaPixel where they warn about CFs that are NOT VPG certified. There is also a list of brands that have the certification and Pergear is not there, this made me very suspicious... I will do other tests with a friend's Lexar

[@thomasfransson]

Really? I just googled "CFExpress Type A gets hot" and got about 307 000 results, most of them explaining the works of these cards and confirming the fact that they do get hot. Even when Idle or just sitting in a card reader. Even my Sony gets hot. There's a a bunch of these new cards coming out on the market and just like one could expect not all, especially manufacturers of more budget friendly options might go through all the licensing and certification, this would not mean it's a bad card. Just that they made a card and didn't care about the proper certification. Just like with third party batteries that will work just fine even if they won't have the same certification and your camera might say that It can not guarantee the functionality of a battery as it's not an OEM... the camera isn't able to verify that it's not OEM and therefore... And if you are a big content creator and you have a choice to recommend products that won't have any issues (most likely) or recommend a card, battery, lens, accessory that may work perfectly on 97% of all cameras. But you don't want the risk of getting complaints from those 3% Well then you stick with the safe bets... It's just like in camera groups where there's people that's afraid of even using third party lenses and make it very clear as often as they could how superior OEM is and how they'd never buy third party options. Sorry about the rant. All I can say is that I've used this card for 90% of everything I've shot on my Sony since I got in in early 2024 and not run into any issues or have seen anyone reporting any issues on any Sony group or KZbin. I was worried when I got it as it got hot - did some quick reserach and discovered that these cards do get hot and I didn't think more of it.