Sandisk

Imagemate Pro Multi-

£18/$27

www.sandisk.com

it may be one of the cheaper 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, on the desk: at 122x58x17mm, it’s the largest reader on test.

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. With 202Mbps read and 107Mbps write figures when shifting images, this puts the Sandisk pretty much in a tie with the competitive Hama and Prograde card 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 that you’d actually notice in real-world use.