Mike Harvey
Veteran
First, there is no real practical issue with my AF100 and the question is asked out of pure curiosity.
So I bought a few new Sandisk Extreme 16GB cards. And like I normally do, I pop them into my AF100 and HMC150, switch to bars and hit record. The idea is to max out the cards a few times before putting them to use... if they're going to crap out, they're going to crap out within the first few uses. I would hate to have one crap out while in the middle of a heart surgery or something (and yes, for me that is a real possibility). Normally I hit record and walk away for the day or night and don't think anything of it. This time, I was curious to see just how much I could record on the card, so I reset the counters. The HMC150 recorded around four hours of bars, which, given the nature of long-GOP seems perfectly reasonable. The AF100, however, recorded nine hours. I did this several times... it didn't matter which card went into which camera, results were the same. Both cameras were set to PH 1080p/30, and the AF100 was set to AC3 for audio (which is what I thought the HMC150 recorded).
Like I said, this isn't a practical issue. Both cameras record 97-105 minutes on these cards in the real world (depending on content). I just thought it was curious that when recording bars, the AF100 would record well over twice as much static content (bars and tone) as the HMC150, when it's the same format and camera settings.
So I bought a few new Sandisk Extreme 16GB cards. And like I normally do, I pop them into my AF100 and HMC150, switch to bars and hit record. The idea is to max out the cards a few times before putting them to use... if they're going to crap out, they're going to crap out within the first few uses. I would hate to have one crap out while in the middle of a heart surgery or something (and yes, for me that is a real possibility). Normally I hit record and walk away for the day or night and don't think anything of it. This time, I was curious to see just how much I could record on the card, so I reset the counters. The HMC150 recorded around four hours of bars, which, given the nature of long-GOP seems perfectly reasonable. The AF100, however, recorded nine hours. I did this several times... it didn't matter which card went into which camera, results were the same. Both cameras were set to PH 1080p/30, and the AF100 was set to AC3 for audio (which is what I thought the HMC150 recorded).
Like I said, this isn't a practical issue. Both cameras record 97-105 minutes on these cards in the real world (depending on content). I just thought it was curious that when recording bars, the AF100 would record well over twice as much static content (bars and tone) as the HMC150, when it's the same format and camera settings.
