Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, true, but video is hardly the point of the D500. Its an action/spirts/wildlife stills speed freak, a one trick pony, but indispensable if that just happens to be your trick. I advise regular photographers here, all day long, to get a D750 if they do not require raw speed.... Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad > On 15-Jan-2019, at 12:58, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > Video? > > Amities > > Philippe > > > >> Le 15 janv. 2019 ? 05:21, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at >> leica-users.org> a ?crit : >> >> Going away from rated numbers, the XQD is far superior to the SD UHS II >> cards, both in terms of shooting speed and buffering. In my experience, >> the >> D500 can go up to 170 shots in RAW 12 bit uncompressed mode with the Sony >> G >> series XQD cards, and 70 odd shots with the SanDisk SD UHS II cards before >> the buffer fills up. It should really not affect anyone who is not into >> long bursts, and if you are taking single shots or short bursts, why waste >> money on these cards when the SD UHS I cards will be more than sufficient? >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 8:23 AM Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry Mark your read and write speeds for you new XQD cards are 440 >>> MB/s, >>> not 200 as you thought you remembered. >>> Other Mark. >>> >>> Thanks Other Mark! My other slot has a more traditional SD card but a >>> real >>> fast and large one: >>> SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO UHS-II SDXC Memory Card >>> MFR # SDSDXPK-128G-ANCIN >>> Its 300 MB/s whole the XQD card in the other slot is 400 MB/s. Comparable >>> but not comparable technologies. >>> Interestingly the Sandisk SD card cost 50 bucks more than the faster and >>> almost same sized XQD Sony. ?!? >>> The sony is a 120gb. The Sandisk is a 128gb. >>> I think XQD cards being sold are lonely. People are not ready to accept >>> them yet. They think they are upstarts. >>> Or they are too cheap to have to buy a new reader. >>> My XQD card I use now is this: Sony 120GB G Series XQD Memory Card MFR >>> # >>> QD-G120F >>> >>> The files I?m shooting now are forty something megebites?s each and are a >>> smaller than typical 20 megapixels. Typical being I think 24 megapixels. >>> The 20 megapixels spec is always used in the Leica priced D5 announced >>> the >>> same day three years ago, January. >>> >>> Rabs >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> Photographer >>> >>> ?On 1/14/19, 9:05 PM, "LUG on behalf of Mark Rabiner" <lug-bounces+mark= >>> rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of mark at >>> rabinergroup.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I had to get a reader to read the XQD card both the reader and the >>> card are made by Sony. Cost around 75 bucks I think. >>> The second slot in the reader takes SSDs cards but real fast ones like >>> the other card a fast and big Sandisk I got for my new D500 Nikon >>> Camera. >>> My new cards are 200 fast while the ones in my D750 were 95. So it's >>> almost as much of a whole new ballgame in that respect. >>> >>> I'm trying to wrap my head around the developing technologies for >>> storage in cameras the SD and compact flash is a twenty year old >>> technology. It seems people think that flash and SSD solid state drives >>> are >>> the same but it just ain't true. I just read a big thing to try to figure >>> it all out. >>> >>> https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-hardware/flash-vs-ssd-storage-whats-the-difference.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> Photographer >>> >>> ?On 1/14/19, 6:08 PM, "LUG on behalf of Brian Reid" <lug-bounces+mark= >>> rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of reid at >>> mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >>> wrote: >>> >>> That is not an SD card, it is a 2.5-inch SATA SSD disk drive, >>> designed >>> to go into laptop and server computers. >>> >>>> On 2019-01-14 13:26, Philippe via LUG wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> OTT I saw that a new card can hold up to 1 TB - I?d be frozen to >>> death >>>> before I?d used all its acreage (as per Mark R) >>>> >>> https://shop.hardware.fr/fiche/AR201707210038.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIop2w95ru3wIVaCjTCh3iYAFxEAQYAyABEgIajvD_BwE >>>> < >>> https://shop.hardware.fr/fiche/AR201707210038.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIop2w95ru3wIVaCjTCh3iYAFxEAQYAyABEgIajvD_BwE >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>> information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information