Remember that a significant number of "bargain" cards from no name suppliers like you often find on eBay are counterfeit, and that they may or may not perform as well as real cards. If you care about reliability and long term functioning and speed of read and write, you may want to focus on suppliers like B&H or Adorama, or from Amazon listed as sold by Amazon. Do not fully trust the third party suppliers on Amazon that sell there, often at lower prices.
I am staying with Sandisk for my CFast 2.0 cards for a while, and will consider other brands as the market matures a bit more. I will not even go for Lexar CFast cards yet, because some of their CFast cards have not worked well in the past on Canon pro level video cameras which have had CFast for a while.
I agree 100% with Roland on this. In my opinion I've seen too many Lexar cards fail for them to earn my trust and buying on eBay you may not even be getting a Lexar - just a cheap clone. Get the Sandisk. If the price is too much wait a bit and the price will drop. I got a 64GB kit card with the camera and I just ordered a 128GB Sandisk from B&H with free shipping. For now I'll use my old Compact Flash cards for any overflow until the price drops on these. I just tested it with Lightroom and everything imports fine (Windows 7 x64). Good luck with the test either way!
Mehrdad you are right apparently they work on the C300 II and also XC 10. Some rentals companies "bundle" the 3400 with the C300 II as rental package.
3400 are discontinued this is why they are much cheaper. Many use them on the black magic cameras with no issue with really high bitrates, the question is if they work on the 1Dx II.
Please Mehrdad let us know how your test turns out.
As I understand it, Canon experienced unexpected and unexplained issues when testing with Lexar CFast cards. The Sandisk CFast works great, though I did pick up a 128 card for long events. Meanwhile, I'll wait for Lexar to figure out what the problem is and fix it, which I'm sure they will do as quickly as possible. What I won't do is risk an assignment for brand loyalty to a memory device. They're like gas for an automobile: Interchangeable.
Deborah, where did u hear that canon had problems with lexar cfast cards? i could not find anything on internet, all i found was the fact the people are/were yusing the lexar cfast 3400x with the canons.
well i picked up my camera, stuck a 1dx battery, a sigma 35mm 1.4 and the lexar 128gb 3400 cfast, and low and behold all worked fine, it seems i can shoot unlimited, i also used the sandisk cfast card reader that came with my camera and was able to read and see all the images on my computer!!
gt3rs wrote:
Mehrdad you are right apparently they work on the C300 II and also XC 10. Some rentals companies "bundle" the 3400 with the C300 II as rental package.
3400 are discontinued this is why they are much cheaper. Many use them on the black magic cameras with no issue with really high bitrates, the question is if they work on the 1Dx II.
Please Mehrdad let us know how your test turns out.
three minutes worked fine and then i got bored at max resolution, really nice, even the sigma 35mm focused and was auto focusing albeit a little motor noise
Only using it for some time ad filling the card will be the final proof but it maybe worth the risk at list for video, especially because Sandisk does not have 256 gb ones.
On a somewhat related note; in case anyone out there who purchased the premium 1dxmkii Kit that included the Sandisk reader is having an issue uploading files...
Turns out that there is an issue with this specific CFast Reader (Sandisk Extreme Pro) + Mac El Capitan Op System + Bridge that Adobe is trying to work out. Bridge will not launch auto uploader nor can you manually select the folder/files to download. It does work in LR however, so I finally downloaded it and am going thru there to upload photos instead of Auto Uploader in Bridge...
Lexar x3400 CFasts failing in my 1DX2s. Starting with random (1 in 100 or so) blank frames then a few yellow question marks on camera screen during playback. Now one card will not initialise in camera but appears to be fine on PC. Two bodies, two cards, problems with all.
Guvnorth wrote:
Lexar x3400 CFasts failing in my 1DX2s. Starting with random (1 in 100 or so) blank frames then a few yellow question marks on camera screen during playback. Now one card will not initialise in camera but appears to be fine on PC. Two bodies, two cards, problems with all.
Not cool!
Are these eBay cards?
If not, I wonder if this is a Lexar card issue. Should we stick to SanDisk for now?
