Please someone I'm desperate here. Does the Lexar 1066x 64GB card work in the 30D? This is crucial for me as I have a big wedding shoot next week and I need to know if I can fit all 6000 raw images on one card.
super35 wrote:
Please someone I'm desperate here. Does the Lexar 1066x 64GB card work in the 30D? This is crucial for me as I have a big wedding shoot next week and I need to know if I can fit all 6000 raw images on one card.
I just tried that Lexar card and the formatted capacity was only 8GB. However, the card was fine when formatted in the computer, displaying 999 on the top. I probably don't have the have the latest BIOS as the body has not been used since 2007.
It borked the partition table and I had to fix it in the computer. The 30D does work properly with v1.06 and the 64GB 1066x cards. I have no idea how many frames there are because the display only shows 999. Frankly I think you are living dangerously with so much on one card. The battery will give out long before the card is full anyway.
Yah, I only get about 2700 Large RAW's with the 7D on a 64G card.
And a lot less when I play with Video :-P But it's nice to have enough
memory to take off for a months holidays and not have to worry about
running out of space with a half dozen cards in the bag :-)
It's too bad Canon only puts a 3 digit counter on the Display for
available photos left. I guess they are still under the impression
that they don't make anything bigger than a 8G card ;-)
In general, unless one has a true need to push very marginal increases (if any), buying the fastest available card is not likely to be a very good investment. In reality, you are unlikely to notice any difference at all.
gdanmitchell wrote:
In general, unless one has a true need to push very marginal increases (if any), buying the fastest available card is not likely to be a very good investment. In reality, you are unlikely to notice any difference at all.
Dan
I strongly disagree. Perhaps you have never used a 5D3. There is a HUGE difference in that camera between a basic CF card and a fast CF card
The difference is 16 shots before the camera slows to 30 shots and buffer clearing time goes from 10 seconds or more to 2.5 seconds. If you shoot unpredictable action such as wildlife, motorsports, rodeo, ball games, etc, this difference is gigantic. The difference is getting the shot or not and the importance cannot be overstated.
gdanmitchell wrote:
In general, unless one has a true need to push very marginal increases (if any), buying the fastest available card is not likely to be a very good investment. In reality, you are unlikely to notice any difference at all.
Dan
You must be joking or ??
1. Who buys CF cards as an investment? Every person that I know buy them to use in their photography.
2 "you are unlikely to notice any difference at all" !!!!!!! There are about 35-40 shots difference when I shoot a 30 sec burst with a slow and a very fast card.
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There was a 114 shots difference between a fast and a slow card in my test. For a 30 seconds burst. There is a link in the beginning of the thread. Probably a marginal increase for Dan For all others it's a huge difference.
gdanmitchell wrote:
In general, unless one has a true need to push very marginal increases (if any), buying the fastest available card is not likely to be a very good investment. In reality, you are unlikely to notice any difference at all.
Dan
The 7D is capable of quite decent speeds with the fast UDMA 7 cards. It does make a significant difference in clearing the buffer, though perhaps not as much as in the 5D III or 1D-X. Unless I'm doing studio flash, I would not go outdoors without a 1000x or greater card in my 5D IIIs.
Having little time with the 7D so far I can not attest to it's write speed just yet. But having worked with the 6.5fps of my 40D and several iterations of faster cards, when shooting higher speed action; surfing, auto/boat/drag racing I've felt/seen 1st hand that the extra speed does indeed help.
Dan you're probably correct that the casual shooter will not find much gain in increased card speed. But for an older shooter with a ton of experience anticipating the action, these cards give you an edge that just might get you the shot. Surfers tend to snap a turn in a blink then go calm only to rip another, perhaps even a 360 and it's then when the shot can be most difficult to grab. There's no 'marginal' when the shot is missed as the buffer flushes...it's just missed.
Having faster cards does help, it's not an easy pick when budget is tight, so I usually have a spread of card speeds and use them based on subject matter. Most are around 400x, a few at 800x. The 1066x Lexars are tempting...we'll see if I pop for a few 16gb for my 1DMk2n, the OP Pro is in late July
Those fleeting city/landscapes, still life, non-action subjects get relegated to the 133x speed cards, but there's always a fast card on hand; in bag, just in case...because thar be pijuns and other little critters in them thar hills.
EB-1 wrote:
The 7D is capable of quite decent speeds with the fast UDMA 7 cards. It does make a significant difference in clearing the buffer, though perhaps not as much as in the 5D III or 1D-X. Unless I'm doing studio flash, I would not go outdoors without a 1000x or greater card in my 5D IIIs.
EBH
Agree, there is a big difference using a fast UDMA 7 card, and an old slow card in the 7D. Especially if you shoot action, birds, wildlife or sports
super35 wrote:
Probably the best cards for the 7D are the now discontinued 600x UDMA 6 or 7 from Lexar, Transcend, and Sandisk. Some of those cards are freaky fast. Case in point, I have a 600x Transcend UDMA 7 card that can write at 90 MB/s.
I use 600x cards in my 5D3... so far I do not have the need for more speed and you're right about the 600x speed cards. That must have been a sweet spot and/or unique controller, because the Sandisk, Lexar and Transcend versions I have read AND write at speeds of 90MB/s. In the case of the Lexar, at least, this makes the 600x card faster writing than the 800x card.
It borked the partition table and I had to fix it in the computer. The 30D does work properly with v1.06 and the 64GB 1066x cards. I have no idea how many frames there are because the display only shows 999. Frankly I think you are living dangerously with so much on one card. The battery will give out long before the card is full anyway.
more like 15 minutes of raw video. 
For all others it's a huge difference.