Sony A7Sii compatible cards?

Grant Peacock

Grant Peacock

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I have an upcoming shoot with this camera, as a rental. The rig is rented without memory cards, and I have not been able to find information on compatible SD cards. Does anyone have access to this information?

I'm a bit puzzled as to why I cannot find the operations manual for the camera. I presume that would be the most authoritative guide to this information, although the set of compatible cards inevitably has probably grown/changed since the ops manual was published.

Grant.
 
Data rate is low in this camera, pretty much almost everything will work besides very old cards from a decade ago.

Per usual, test any you have if planning on using those.
 
NorBro said:
Data rate is low in this camera, pretty much almost everything will work besides very old cards from a decade ago.

Per usual, test any you have if planning on using those.
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I think that's true, but they could have crippled it.

for example, my a7siii won't record all-intra 240Mbps 4K 24p on anything less than a v90 card. But it will record 250Mbps (s&Q 50Mbps on 120fps into 24p) in long-gop onto a v60 as well as other settings of equivalent or greater nitrate. But no all-i on less than v90
 
Times were simpler when it was introduced (2015) and there weren't even as many branded V60 cards out on the market.
 
Thanks both, much appreciated. As I guessed, there's some irksome details lurking. For now, and with a Tuesday shoot pending, I went for Sandisk UHS-II class cards. Can either of you point me to towards the FS7ii? Unable to find it thru any Sony site I have visited. Have a great rest of weekend.
 
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It's pretty straightforward for the a7SII, especially today because the camera's highest data rate as mentioned is nothing for modern cards.

Here's the manual for the a7sII: http://www.sony.com/electronics/supp.../45815341M.pdf

It doesn't even mention V60 because not many V60 cards likely weren't even for sale at the time of the publication.

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Here's the manual for the FS7: https://pro.sony/ue_US/support-resources/pxw-fs7/manual

And FS7II: https://pro.sony/en_CM/support-resou...w-fs7m2/manual

Personally, I don't have a comment on cards for this camera(s) because the system is more demanding and it's best to find trusted media.
 
My apologies! I see I wrote 'FS7ii' when I meant to say A7Sii ! But you kindly provided both!

The camera I am going to use looks like it is arriving Monday night, and I'm shooting with it Tuesday morning. Trying not to worry.....

I have an audio cable that is dual XLR-F's, to stereo mini-plug. I am hoping, from what I see in the manual, that this is going to support 2 channels going in? I know that the smaller a camera body gets, the more 'discovery' there is with inputs.....
 
... longer term, and once I am thru this shoot, I will be looking to see if there's an accessory that would allow XLR-M cable ends to be brought straight to the camera for audio in. That would be the simplest/best for the vagaries of field production.
 
That would be ideal. We're just doing a few days of interviews, primary camera is my PMW-F5, but it would be great I think if we could split the boom and lav mics and duplicate them to the A7Sii.
 
If it was 2001, they would probably try to sell it for $10,000.

The Japanese made a lot of money from their electronics empire.
 
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