Recording PH Mode

Class 6 is needed for overcrank. Just bought Panasonic Gold 16GB Class 10 for ~$55 at jr.com
 
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PH mode, by itself, requires Class 4. When in VFR mode, it requires Class 6.

And yes, the jr.com Class 10 Panasonic Gold sale is awesome, I just got two of them delivered yesterday and will be putting them to work starting tomorrow morning. Seeing as I have a Lexar Platinum that's starting to act flaky, I'm not so sold on Lexar anymore, but the Panasonic Gold and SanDisk Extreme are the best out there.
 
I am not sure why these Panasonic gold cards are so popular. I had one for my HMC-150 fail. I have heard of others failing as well, it was a class 6 gold but still, sandisk extreme III all the way.
 
no brand is 100% reliable, i've had an extreme 3 card fail on me. But hopefully the fail rates are lower with the more expensive cards. At the very least, if you use a panasonic card in your panasonic camera, then if something goes wrong, panasonic can't blame it on the card company :)
 
tacotim said:
no brand is 100% reliable, i've had an extreme 3 card fail on me. But hopefully the fail rates are lower with the more expensive cards. At the very least, if you use a panasonic card in your panasonic camera, then if something goes wrong, panasonic can't blame it on the card company :)
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Hoodman claims zero failures, how accurate of a claim is- we don't know.
 
I can't say Hoodman cards have failed on me from a data standpoint, but the first batch of four SD cards I bought from them definitely "failed" in one sense. The plastic casing cracked and chipped after only minimal use. Hoodman replaced them all, but I've since moved to all Panasonic Gold cards.

Oh, and here's an interesting story…

I must have offloaded a Panasonic card on a recent shoot, then stuck the card in my shirt pocket. The card was washed and dried, still in the pocket, and the data on the card was intact and the card working perfectly. I don't recommend this as a way to "wipe" data off your cards, but it was a good torture test. :D
 
It's too bad Panasonic didn't allow duel recording to the sd card slots on the AF 100. I know Jan said it would have cost more money, but think of it as money spent on seat belts and airbags.

I am using the smallest cards that are reasonable for the job, mostly 8gb and 4gb, and loading the footage on to a drive in the field. Checking playback on your camera is no guarantee you card won't blow up. Ninja, Kia pro mini, etc, is worth if for redundacy.
 
Yeh, that's is my feeling too- especially the Ninja, if it works as advertised. Not only does is capture a less compressed signal, but it provides data redundancy.

I've not had a SanDisk Extreme card fail on me yet- had no end of problems with Lexars though so won't buy them now. The main problem seemed to be incompatibility and failure to mount/dismount properly in anything other than a Lexar reader, which isn't a good sign for being within the spec requirements somehow- the second time one of those card corrupted some data, I threw the rest away.

Of course all cards have a failure rate, but the SanDisks seem to do the job for me thus far. (And at least they don't cost what a P2 card does- never had one of those fail on me, but if it did it is the only one where the media cost might be comparable to the reshoot cost!)

Cheers, Hywel.
 
I've been using 8gb sandisk extreme 3's with my gh1 with no issues. Oddly the only card I've ever had fail on me was an r series 16gb p2 card. What a nightmare, talk about your stomach flipping. Quick question, does anyone know the approximate record time for an 8bg card in 1080p 24? I'm hoping to use the 8 8gb cards that I already have but was curious how often I may have to offload...
 
Bucknfl said:
. I am using the smallest cards that are reasonable for the job, mostly 8gb and 4gb, and loading the footage on to a drive in the field. Checking playback on your camera is no guarantee you card won't blow up. Ninja, Kia pro mini, etc, is worth if for redundacy.
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I think it is the worst possible security workflow you can choose.
 
The more a card is removed the greater the change of wear and possible damage, get the best brand highest speed & largest card that has been on sale for at least 3 mounts (I do not like being on the Bleeding edge of New technology)
 
I don't know if this is correct or not, but when I shoot with my gh1's I fill up an 8gb card remove it, lock it and when I get a break transfer the card contents to 2 separate external hard drives. I have been comfortable doing this for awhile. I always had the fear of having too big of a card. i figured if I lost an 8gb card I would be out 45 minutes of footage rather than a few hours of footage if I lost a 32gb one. Lost footage sucks either way, but I'm not one for putting all of my eggs in one basket. I realize that wear and tear is an issue, but I have read that the gold plating on most sd cards are good for at least 500 insertions.
 
Side note.

>Everything then goes onto my RAID 5 editing system for safe keeping.

Raid is not really a safe storage (for archiving). Because I have seen RAID file systems gone bad. Save (mirror) on multiple disks (maybe even different brands).

RAID is good to stay operational if one disk crashes.
 
Agreed, Uwe. I should re-phrase that…

Everything goes on my HDPro RAID 5 for editing, then gets archived to mirrored storage drives or Data Tape.
 
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