Buy BIG cards. I’m actually thinking of grabbing another 128 as backup. I have a 64 go card now as backup but I feel naked with only two type II cards .
I'm running 2 128 uhs 1 cards, havent hit the buffer limit. The cards are only 60MB/s write speeds and I havent had much issues when chasing my kids around. It could be that I just dont machine it a lot coming from the R2. The buffer seems to clear reasonably fast, not feeling any need for faster cards until I start hitting the limit.
GMPhotography wrote:
Fred I thought about the Sony M as they are a little slower but 100 bucks for a 128 which is cheap but as a backup might be nice to have
I just checked and all my cards are SDXC II....Two of them are 64GB (latest model) with writing speed of 300MB/s. (SanDisk and Sony)
The other is a 256GB with 150MB/s writing speed. (Lexar)
I just bought those two cards above. One 128 G series (for slot 1) and another 128MB M series (for slot 2).
I may sell my other cards now as I don't think I would ever used them.
Fred Miranda wrote:
I just bought those two cards above. One 128 G series (for slot 1) and another 128MB M series (for slot 2).
I may sell my other cards now as I don't think I would ever used them.
Can slot 1 actually write at 300MB/s? Didn't see that in the manual when I looked.
Parariss wrote:
Can slot 1 actually write at 300MB/s? Didn't see that in the manual when I looked.
No, slot 1 writes around 140-150 MB/sec when best UHS-II cards are used. The buffer in the camera is about 2 GB and it take about 14-15 secs to fully clear it after shooting the buffer full with RAW files. Seems to match A9 tests in cameramemoryspeed quite closely.
tn1krr wrote:
No, slot 1 writes around 140-150 MB/sec best when UHS-II cards are used. The buffer in the camera is about 2 GB and it take about 14-15 secs to fully clear it after shooting the buffer full with RAW files. Seems to match A9 tests in cameramemoryspeed quite closely.
The upshot, as I read it: You have to choose between speed and redundancy. If you're going to use two cards, you might as well save your money and use the slower, cheaper cards we've had for some time now, and if you want speedy shooting stick to one card.
It's hard to imagine that the faster card slot is materially larger or power hungry. I hate to be cynical, but it looks like Sony went out of their way to gimp the camera so as to instill a reason to upgrade to some future model with 2 fast card slots.
Fred Miranda wrote:
I just bought those two cards above. One 128 G series (for slot 1) and another 128MB M series (for slot 2).
I may sell my other cards now as I don't think I would ever used them.
I was going to do a similar thing but I already have a 64GB G series so maybe I will buy a second one and then for my Slot 2 I thought of buying the M series but from the tests I saw it looks like my current Lexar (2x64GB) that do 70MB writes will be perfect since that is about the speed limit anyway.
Then again, if I wanted max speed, I want to shoot uncompressed so a 128GB makes more sense...decisions decisions
