Where to buy EX1 and SXS cards ?

Looks like they're only dropping the price on the 8GB cards. $399.99, vs. $875.99 for the 16GB. Usually, the larger card is not quite double the price, but in this case, it's more than double. Bring on the 32GB cards!

BTW, my rebate 8GB card arrived via UPS today. So now I have two 8GB and one 16GB card.
 
I'm wondering what their new promotion/rebate is going to be. I've been waiting for their rebate period to end (3/31) to see if

a) They revised the camera and fixed some of the issues.
b) They included more storage (2x16GB cards - one included, and one upon reg.)
c) A 32GB became available.
d) They dropped the price of the camera by $500 (as if! it's already terrific value)

I haven't looked on BH or Sony to see if they have a new promotion.
 
Granville said:
Hey Basspig,

How long did you have to wait for the rebate card?
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I think it's been about 3 weeks since I sent in the rebate. Funny thing was, an hour after the card arrived, I get a postcard in the mail saying that my rebate cannot be honored because of duplicate entry (two weeks ago, they e-mailed me to say that some sheet was missing, so I sent the missing sheet and Xeroxed the other stuff as proof of continuity.) Anyway, a lot less than "8-12 weeks". :)
 
Stevet said:
Yes,
Like yourself, I really could use 32GB cards doing event work.
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Yup, five hours of battery and four hours of media should be enough to handle most any wedding event if you shoot conservatively and not just everything.

The thought of offloading smaller cards to a laptop, with the attendant confusion going on at such events just worries me. I've already botched some test clips that I offloaded and used the wrong method of moving some files around, causing the database to be thrown out of synch with what was really stored on the disc. The Clip Browser can no longer see those files and I get a bunch of black thumbnails with X's in the corner instead of video. The .MP4 files are there, but the XMP file got overwritten with new data from another card. Oops... Better to have it all on a pair of huge SxS cards, so things don't get messed up.

Also the Clip Browser is a pretty competent file manager. Use that to move, copy, delete clips. I was able to combine a spanned clip by copying one card's folder to another, after copying both cards to a RAID array. The split spanned clips get recombined nicely. So all file management issues are resolveable.
 
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