MxR and Scandisk 32 problem

[Michael Palmer]

If you are using an early EX1 you will need a firmware update. If you have the newer firmware then try the other slot as some of my SDHC Transcend cards needed a second attempt.

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Dano Motley]

sorry about that. i should have stated which camera. i have an ex3. my software version is V1.02_0078. I have purchased it in janary of this year.

Dano

[Michael Palmer]

I know Craig Seeman uses the SanDisk 32 gig cards, and I believe his are labelled class 2.
There has been talk of counterfeit SDHC cards for sale out there, hopefully you purchased from a place you can return them.

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Dano Motley]

i thought/hope they are the real thing. i purchased them from buy.com

is it the class 4 vs class 2?

dan

[Michael Palmer]

I think the firmware limits the through put on the EX camera so that class 2 cards are all that is needed.
Craig may have some other ideas to help you and I’m sure he will when he can.

I know you can’t pull out the card while the red record light is still on, that will destroy the card.

I might try formatting as fat 32 on my computer and or copying a BPAV folder to it then try in the camera.

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Craig Seeman]

The Sandisk Ultra 2 32GB show Class 2 on the label even though all marketing material I’ve seen show Class 4.

They work fine though. I’ve found you have to try to format them twice to get them to format. Do the format and when it fails, pull the MxR out, put it back in, format again and it’ll work.

[Bruno Perosa]

I’m buying from the distributor (South Europe) so I know are original, I first tried 8 & 16 Express3 and the first card in the EX3 had to be formatted twice, today I formatted 1×16 + 1×32, no problems. All with the E-films adaptors

[Dano Motley]

the 32 looks exactly like the packaging of the 16. the packaging says class 2. the actual card says class 4. i am on an e-mail help link with the owner of MxM. as i type he is trying to get to the bottom of this.

amazing customer service…i will report back. thanks

dano

[Dano Motley]

as it looks now after running several tests from the MxM company…

the sandisks ultra II 32 gig DO NOT have a write speed near 15 mbs (as advertised). they (class 4’s) write as 11.08, not fast enough to be used in the ex3…unfortunatly.

the same tests on the sandisk 16 gb class 4 revealed a write speed of 15.02 mbs.

the headache continues…

Dano

[Chris Babbitt]

My Sandisk 16 gb cards actually are labeled Class 2. It looks as though the company recently downgraded the rating of their Ultra II cards, perhaps for marketing purposes.