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on re-reading, 32 gig as lowest was something i’ve overlooked.
I’ve had problems with 8 gig cards…..Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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I dunno. What can I say? I have not been a DSLR user for too long, but I have read more than once about people saying the smaller cards are slower.
If you have a system that works for you, great.
Personally I use the 32GB Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s and have not had any problems. So I’ll probably just stick with that.
And I agree with offloading as often as possible, and backing up to a few different external sources before reformatting the cards. Just seems like the way to go.
Norman Willis
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Were these 8Gb cards UDMA / 60Mbs cards?
Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
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Probably not, i forgot what they where.
But, i’m sure that by specs they should have been fast enough.
(I live by specs…)
In reality, they were not.As always:
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice however…Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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Bouke, I get Phil’s point. He is saying that if one uses the 60MB/sec UDMA cards, you will not have this problem, regardless of card size.
Norman Willis
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Exactly.
The cost of re-shoot, if its possible, can be more than the value of your entire kit.Some things are not worth cutting costs on, one day a cheap CF card will come back and bite you real hard.
Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
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Just to add my 2 cents here… I use both 8 and 16 gig SanDisk Extreme cards with the 7D with no dropped frames, ever, while shooting in 1080p/ 24, 30 and 720p/60. I think if you stick with the SanDisk Extreme you should be good, whichever size you go with.
Just my experience, your mileage may vary.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
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Pretty much same experience with these guys.
Bought a ‘used’ Sandisk Extreme 60 MB/s 16 GB card from Amazon for about $100 a few months back.
Lexar Card reader ($20), I use FireWire 800 to iMac.
Then Canon’s plug-in for converting the .mov files directly from the same
folder structure that comes off the card into FCP to 422 (LT).
Had my time in the beginning trying to edit h.264 (hehe)
My particular shoots never went over 6GB total, but of course that varies.
I would buy more 16GB cards, I think that is about right for me.
And maybe an 8GB card for example I want to do a time-lapse (1 day for a year) on
a construction project, so instead of downloading the pics everyday, just swap that card in and out and do it all at once.
Got to get me some of those Pelican card cases I saw Chris Fenwick use.Outside of that, smooth as ice cream here in Florida.
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Hey Phil.I have been running 4 x32g Sandisk Extreme 3 cards pretty much every other day in my 5d mk2 and have not had a single problem ,touch wood.32g cards are the perfect size I think, for the very reason you stated in your previous posts.I usually run 2 5d’s at once and i dont think they have ever been short of media on most normal shoots.Hope we can catch up soon?
Cheers
MJ
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