C300: Does this CFast 2.0 card work with the C300 Mark II?

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fhammond

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Hi,

I'm looking to buy some more CFast 2.0 cards. Does anyone have experience with the EgoDisk Pro 256GB card? It's about half the price of the equivalent SanDisk card. Here's the Amazon listing:

http://a.co/0ZE8cnT

Thanks.
 
Presuming you do this professionally and your livelihood depends on it...

My .02: If an equipment manufacturer has an approved media list, stick to it. If it isn't on it, I don't buy it. Saving $1500-$2000 on cards vs. the risk of having a failure with an unapproved card doesn't make sense to me.
 
EgoDisk was tested by some 1DXII shooters on YouTube and it actually outperformed SanDisk on write/read speeds ...

but ...

my recommendation is to buy one unit at a time and try the heck out of it before buying another. Once it's battle tested on all variables, including quality control and durability, then you can buy another and then another.
 
DLD said:
EgoDisk was tested by some 1DXII shooters on YouTube and it actually outperformed SanDisk on write/read speeds ...

but ...

my recommendation is to buy one unit at a time and try the heck out of it before buying another. Once it's battle tested on all variables, including quality control and durability, then you can buy another and then another.
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I am going to buy some of the expensive Sandisks but this has been my game plan for the C200 when it arrives. Buy one of these EgoDisk cards, try it for a few weeks on all sorts of shoots. Does anyone know, can the .MP4 only be recorded to the SD cards on the C200? Also, since the C200 is a brand new camera, it is possible that Canon may do a new card qualification testing round and perhaps we'll get something else new besides just Sandisk and Lexar?
 
Based on how everything's been written, it looks like .MP4s will only be recorded on the SD cards and Cinema RAW Light on the CFast (obviously).
 
DLD said:
EgoDisk was tested by some 1DXII shooters on YouTube and it actually outperformed SanDisk on write/read speeds ...

but ...

my recommendation is to buy one unit at a time and try the heck out of it before buying another. Once it's battle tested on all variables, including quality control and durability, then you can buy another and then another.
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A couple of guys on YouTube said they're good to go? Well heck, I'm satisfied then. ; )
 
What's the worst that could happen? You loose all the footage from a shoot, which destroys your professional reputation, leaving you out of work, and broke, so your wife leaves you and takes up with another video guy who bought approved media while you beg for food on the streets. It could be worse.
 
Eric Coughlin said:
What's the worst that could happen? You loose all the footage from a shoot, which destroys your professional reputation, leaving you out of work, and broke, so your wife leaves you and takes up with another video guy who bought approved media while you beg for food on the streets. It could be worse.
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To be fair, "approved" cards fail too.
 
I would always buy expensive media myself, but for what it's worth...just because cards aren't approved isn't the end-all. Canon is very busy and I'd bet testing as many cards as possible isn't at the top of the priority list.

These lists are made very slowly and by people who aren't in any particular rush. Smaller companies with the same technology and the same resources and capabilities might create solid solutions, but reading/hearing names like 'EgoDisk' isn't exactly a confidence builder. As mentioned above, test any and all thoroughly. A good habit to develop is playing back footage in the field as much as you can. (It doesn't always mean your footage is safe, but at least it's playing back in cam.)
 
If you're using the C300/II with two CFast slots, the beauty is you can record dual-slot and use a more expensive, approved card in slot A and a less expensive but well-regarded card in slot B. Then in the (very unlikely) event that one card fails, you still have a backup.

I have 2 of the 256GB "approved" cards, and two of the unapproved Transcend 600X 256GB cards. That cost quite a bit less than having 4 of the approved cards, and I'm still secure in the knowledge I always have a backup (though the Transcends have not failed me yet).

That obviously won't work with the C200 though...
 
Y’all realize that Canon’s approval is for PERFORMANCE and not RELIABILITY, right?

I’d venture that a quality UNAPPROVED card is no more likely to fail than a quality APPROVED card.
 
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