New Panasonic Pro SD cards

$890798677856845 says they're Lexars or Kingstons with a new label on the front. Bet Panasonic buys them at Walmart.

I don't even trust Red on this "our cameras need better/faster media and for some reason no one on the planet except us knows how to make it right, so buy direct from us for triple the price" thing, and their cameras demand (at minimum) 10 times the data rate of cameras like the AF100.
 
Hi Mark,

Not sure what Lee is talking about as we make our own cards. The new professional cards will be coming at the end of May, I hope, could be June , waiting confirmation. They should be pretty cool, platinum label, with lots of smart features. Should have the marketing bulletin done in the next week or so. But from what I have been able to glean, these are the P2 cards of the SD world.

Stay tuned for more, maybe by Wednesday next week. If you can hold out, please do, you will be pretty ahppy about it. Faster, more bullet proof, software checker. Cool stuff.

Best,

Jan
 
Thanks Jan. I had caught a couple of references to the cards but could not find any panasonic based info on them. All I could find were the Panasonic Gold Cards ... I can hold out. I'm good with cards for the moment but since I did buy a second AF 100 , I will be buying a few more cards in the near future.
 
Jarek Zabczynski said:
Would be cool if they were made of metal.
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...or carbon weave... just throwing it out there.

jmarkham said:
It would be even cooler it they didn't fall through cracks and had a recovery beacon.

jeff
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LOL ...don't forget built-in WiFi, pico projector, and Scorsese mode :D

See, Canon's been doing stuff like this for years with their cameras

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Of all the SDHC cards I've used in my HMC152s & now AF102, the Panasonic ones seem to be the most durable (I have six of the AG-SDV016). On the other hand, the casing on the genuine Sandiscs I got around the same time, are riddled with cracks and missing bits of plastic at the connection end; I can only use them permanently mounted inside MxR card holders for my EX1.
 
Jan_Crittenden said:
Not sure what Lee is talking about as we make our own cards.
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I said that because many people selling flash storage, even big names like Lexar, tend to OEM controllers, flash, even the complete cards, from the same few manufacturers.

But that's very cool! Glad to hear I'm wrong.
 
I'm not too concerned about what these cards might cost. You notice what 64 GB P2 cards are selling for these days? I'd rather have the most reliable card possible than anything else. I also wouldn't mind it the cards were physically bigger - like the size of P2 cards Hint hint, and worked in an AF XXX that had > 50 Mbs AVCHD 4.2.2 or AVC I , U Hint Hint.

I think Panasonic has created a bit of a situation here. First they roll out P2 and that takes some time to get traction on the client side of the marketplace ( client asks me: you mean all the stuff you shot is on this card and not a tape???)

And Finally people are down with P2, which uses nice big OFFICIAL looking cards, and then Panasonic does the switch up to AVCHD and SD recording in a certain market segment and now the last 2.5 hours of material is now recorded on this little SD card the size of a piece of Cinnamon Toast crunch cereal...

I shot some material for a client last week which was the conclusion of a multi day green screen shoot. Client forgot to bring a drive and I did not have one either, so I offered to let them take the SD card because I knew Post was hungry for the material. THe producer looked at the SD card in the case, paused for a moment and declined fearing he would misplace the card...

Size does matter.
 
We've been over this before.

Panasonic chose sd cards to meet a price point.

When the AF-200 comes out with AVC-I and P2 I will be the first to buy one.
 
How long will data last on these cards if they are only written to once? I would love to have an archival source that can be used once and then put on the shelf for years. So far, I have SD and CF cards that have been used once put on the shelf for about six years. They still read in the computer just fine.......no lost data or corrupted files. I have never been able to get an answer from Lexar or Sandisk about the longevity of data stored on their cards. Does anyone know? MIT...CAL Tech....Sony...Canon...Panasonic....the military??? With the launch of this new card, it would be the perfect time to give a good guestimate for longevity. Yeah, yeah, I know I can transfer data to LTO's, hard drives, DVDs, etc., ...But being able to go back to those cards after six years and reading data really feels good...Sort of like how we felt in film days.
 
Panasonic chose sd cards to meet a price point.

When the AF-200 comes out with AVC-I and P2 I will be the first to buy one.[/QUOTE]

I Know - I'm just clamoring in the marketplace
 
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