SanDisk ImageMate Pro Multi-Card Reader

£18/$27 www.sandisk.com

It may be the cheapest reader here, but the ImageMate Pro feels like a quality product: it’s well-built and weighty enough to sit securely on a desk. And this is where it belongs: at 122 x 58 x 17mm, it’s the largest reader here.

A trio of card slots is spread neatly across the front, with CF, UHS-II SD and microSD to choose from. A detachable USB Type-A cable is provided, so you will need an adapter for a USB-C port.

Testing with a UHS-II SD card yielded highly respectable video transfer speeds of 252MBps read and 210MBps write – not far off the much more expensive ProGrade reader. 202MBps read and 107MBps write figures when shifting images put the SanDisk pretty much in a tie with the Hama, ProGrade and Sony readers for top honours here. When it comes to UHS-I SD cards, speeds of 96MBps read and 83MBps write are fractionally slower than the Hama and ProGrade, but nothing you’d notice in real-world use.