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Hi Lor,

The brands we have tested and were happy with on the MxR are the Sandisk Ultra II 16GB and the Transcend 16GB.

We found some Kingston were fine, but others were too slow, and they were bought from the same batch. So couldn't really say too much more than that.

A-Data was too slow as was Toshiba, and we bought a huge array of "Class 6" cards which is supposed to mean 6MB/s write speed, and none were satisfactory for HQ, but some were ok for SP. But they have so little headroom for SP work, I'd just use them for either shooting speeches, conferences, long interruption free records, but still have a card i can rely in slot B, just in case the camera throws a media error while recording.

For me too much bother. I've put programs onto the slowest SDHC, and use them as virtual drives. They work fine for that.

Best to stick with Sandisk or Transcend.

Ross Herewini
Sydney
 
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Halo Ross,
you tested Transcend 16GB? MxR work with? I filmed with Kensington + transcend everything ok.Am was preferred to pass on MxR, so I can close the door to my EX1.
 
liondor1969 said:
Halo Ross,
you tested Transcend 16GB? MxR work with? I filmed with Kensington + transcend everything ok.Am was preferred to pass on MxR, so I can close the door to my EX1.
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Hi liondor1969,

The transcends worked fine. I found them to be a bit slower than the Sandisk, but not unusable.

If the Sandisk took 5 secs to write the TOC, the Transcend took 6. This compares with SxS 4secs, and Lexar SSD 9secs.

Same ovecranking headroom as the Sandisk, ie 46-48 frames under PAL 720-25p.

We've shot without problem or error with the Transcend.

Ross Herewini
MxR
Sydney
 
Today I received the e-4 films MxR Reader, we tested with SanDisk 16gb, I filmed 30 minutes each card, everything is perfet. Thank's team-films,Marius
 
That appears to be the one. Its offload speed isn't likely to be as fast as the Ultra II but the price is lower. Ironically here in Australia, these cards are more expensive than the Ultra IIs which dropped about 30% in price a few weeks ago...
 
GuyB said:
That appears to be the one. Its offload speed isn't likely to be as fast as the Ultra II but the price is lower. Ironically here in Australia, these cards are more expensive than the Ultra IIs which dropped about 30% in price a few weeks ago...
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Awesome! Thanks :)

Just ordered two.
 
Just received 3 MxS card readers from Australia. They work fine with my Sandisk Ultra II 16GB, and Transcend 16GB. Overcrank only goes up to 72024p '48'. Anything over 48 usualy gives a card failure. I use my 3 SxS cards for all the Slo Mo capture anyway.

One thing I do in the field if all my SxS cards fill up is I transfer the SxS to the MxS (SDHC card) in camera from one slot to the other. Slow transfer time -takes about a 1/2 hour/ 16Gb, but will do in a pinch.

Kevin
 
Only this Class 6 ones, there were a lot of problems with Trnascend to start with and it was because of the mixed variety of Transcend cards people were using.
 
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