[Leica] I'm A Nikon Shooter Again - MARK in HNY

Philippe photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 23:28:28 PST 2019


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Philippe



> Le 15 janv. 2019 à 05:21, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> 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)
>>> 
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