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[planetweckesser]

Yeah...so did I. B&H listed them as discontinued a few weeks back but I just checked their site. Apparently the 8GB cards are now discontinued and 16GB are back in production at $530/pop.

Plus 10 ground postage (total 540). The place in Virginia I ordered from are 489/ea if you buy 2 and free postage (2 day UPS) and, of course, no tax.

 

[sadude]

Hi all,

I recently (a week ago) had a case of the Sandisk Ultra II 15Mbps card go belly up on me during recording. I lost all footage on this card. For the most part, this could have been avoided:

You see, while recording to this card, early on (first 5 min...) I recieved a 'Can No Proceed' prompt on the LCD. Normally I see this if say you press a button for a function that does not work at that time (eg clip review while recording) etc but I was sure I didn't press anything. I assumed I had though.

It would appear that the camera somehow new something was wrong, unfortunately it did appear to keep writing to that card as normal. It was only later that the problem was found (the card is not recognised by any standard software.

In this case I was also recording a DVD backup at the same time from the analogue out so no footage was lost, just the ability to offer it in HD.

I will point out though a piece of software everyone should consider. Its called
RecoveryFix (for windows).

This software has saved me on multiple occasions. Even in this case above, where none of my computers would do anything but lock up accessing the SDHC card, this application was able to copy off ALL the data (all 16GB). Unfortuanatley in this case, it was all corrupted, but in the past, in similar situations, with my DSLR & RAW files on a faulty CF card it rescued 16GB worth of RAW files minus about 4 corrupt ones.

I use SDHC and HDD/SSDs with the full knowledge that something might go wrong, much more so than SxS. SxS has its place, but so does SDHC. Filming these dance competitions on the weekend, I would have needed thousands of dollars of SxS. Instead I used 2 HDDs with SxS safely ready to take over in slot 2 should it be needed. It was needed once, with a HDD giving a restore message when recording started, switch, start recording to SxS and fix the HDD later. In the end all I needed to do was remove and replace the HDD card in the camera, no restore was actually needed... 9 hours of footage later...

I use and recommend using alternative media, but you need to use it with the knowledge there may be issues no and again. Test your media well before use too!

Hi guy, i want to ask you if you are still as excited about SDHC cards as you were when you first started using them, Maybe now you have come across a few problems with these cards that has made you less optimistic about this option for recording hd. I dont know im just asking.

the reason i ask is because i am in the process of returning my sandisks and i will have to pay in an extra $100 to get a better type of card ATX. Should i cut my losses or upgrade?

 

[GuyB]

Hi guy, i want to ask you if you are still as excited about SDHC cards as you were when you first started using them, Maybe now you have come across a few problems with these cards that has made you less optimistic about this option for recording hd. I dont know im just asking.

the reason i ask is because i am in the process of returning my sandisks and i will have to pay in an extra $100 to get a better type of card ATX. Should i cut my losses or upgrade?

Yes and no. In many ways SDHC is a godsend, I've rarely used my SxS since getting it but I also know that I have to be more careful with my cards and data. I think what happned to that card of mine was very rare, normally most data could be recovered and quality SDHC cards work just fine, remembering that there have been reports of genuine SxS failing too. It would be an absolute nightmare shooting this shoot with my limited stock of SxS. I'd be as likely to delete my own data copying and formatting cards as have a SDHC card go crook.

What I would like Sony to do is come out with an SxS Express Card based SDHC adaptor! Get rid of that USB bottleneck of the camera and let these cards (SDHC, HDD & SSDs) offer their full potential in capacity and speed. It would also be good if Sony offered an option of redundant recording, recording to both slots at the same time. Sure you couldn't record contineously but with 308min recording to an 80GB HDD it would be very safe long form recording... There are so many things Sony could do, so little they will. In fact, all they need to do is offer an open developers kit into the PCI Express based driver interface and let 3rd pary developers do the rest. Then there is no responsibility back on them... Got to get rid of this silly 80GB partition limit though...

 

[btdsullivan]

I bought my EX-1 in January, 2010 and here is the way that works for me. I bought 2-32GB SXS-1 cards ($579/each) when I bought the camera. I use these whenever I shoot with the camera. If the project calls for more than that, I will go to the 16GB SXS card that came with the camera. In total that is about 5 hours of HD. I also have bought some generic 32GB Class 6 SDHC cards that I use as back-up cards. I bought them at the local Micro Center for $54.99 each. Whenever I get a chance, I transfer from the SXS-1 card to the SDHC card through an adapter by calling up the clip copy section on the "Others" menu in the EX-1. I currently have numerous projects on SDHC cards as "originals" while I continue to use my my SXS-1 cards. I also transfer to hard drives as well. I have had no problems so far.