C200: SSD adapter for the C200
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puredrifting
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I am going to order one the day my C200 ships. If it works, I will report back with my testing, or if I break it, I'll just return it, no risk really.
I wouldn't assume the cards that work for the C300 are guaranteed to work for the C200. According to the C200 page on Canon USA's site, the C200 requires cfast cards with VGP-130. So far I only see Sandisk advertising that they support it.
The C300 2 uses the cards for something much lower intensity than RAW. Looking forward to puredrifting's tests.
The C300 2 uses the cards for something much lower intensity than RAW. Looking forward to puredrifting's tests.
puredrifting
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Yep, none of the other cards mention it. Not confidence building. The C300 MKII is only 410 Mbps, the Cinema RAW Light is 1 Gbps. Entirely possible that cards that will work on the C300 MKII will choke on the C200.
puredrifting
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I just contacted Ego Disk and Transcend to ask if any of their current or soon to be introduced CFast 2.0 cards meet the VPG-130 standard. If they don't, it's pointless to try them in the C200 with Cinema RAW Light. Hopefully we won't be stuck with only massively overpriced SanDisks for a while.
Yeah. That's another reason I opted for the C300 Mark II. I have 4 Transcend CFX600 256GB cards that I ordered from Amazon UK. They showed up in two business days and cost me just over $200 each ($202) including speedy shipping. They work fantastic in the C300 Mark II.
That said, I'm not sure they'd work as well in the C200 and I'd hate to be stuck buying ScamDisks while the prices are where they are.
That said, I'm not sure they'd work as well in the C200 and I'd hate to be stuck buying ScamDisks while the prices are where they are.
To get back to the adapter (yes, the topic exists in several threads, mutating from one to another) - for those who held the C200 in your bosom - does the CFast 2.0 slot plastic cover have electronic contacts? I assume not. If not, then it's (99.99%) just a dust cover with a spring and anyone should be able to put together the connection the same way folks did with URSA.
puredrifting
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Eric Coughlin
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Yeah, whenever I use an URSA dust...my sweat, vomit, pee, fingernails, hairs, and bellybutton lint all end up falling into the camera's memory card slots.
I once lived in a house without doors and got robbed and mugged each night. It was great.
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Which doesn't seem to be all that complicated.*
*Disclaimer - I own neither a 3D printer nor an accessory manufacturing company.
3D printer isn't mandatory. Depending on the position of the card reader's cable, a hole can be drilled, or a cut-out can be filed, into the existing card slot cover.
puredrifting
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Even if all of this is do-able, I would not be an early adopter/guinea pig. I'd let all of you crazy people figure out the bugs and gotchas first! ;-)
Some of the reviews on B&H for that URSA adapter weren't very kind but that appeared to be quality control related. Tom Antos put together his own URSA CFast-to-SSD system on the cheap (~$80 for parts plus his own labor) and seems quite pleased. I say, drop the card in, put some chewing gum* over the hole and you're in business.
*I hear peppermint is da best.
Considering how EgoDisk is about to release a 512gb CFast Card that has a write speed of 435MBps for $650, this might not really be worth the additional hassle and experimenting. 435MB/s is way more write speed that you need for the ~125MB/s (1Gbps) video codec in the C200, and 512GBs will give you 1hr of recording.
I'd rather buy 3-4 of those cards then to deal with the hassle of carrying around the additional weight and bulk of an external drive and it's battery... then figure out how I'm going to store all of those extra data I'm shooting.
I'd rather buy 3-4 of those cards then to deal with the hassle of carrying around the additional weight and bulk of an external drive and it's battery... then figure out how I'm going to store all of those extra data I'm shooting.
According to EgoDisk - and don't we love all these multiple threads on the same topic - they'll sustain 230 MB/s (with 435 or whatever being in bursts).
But everything else stands.*
*I say, when shooting outdoors, the door should remain tightly shut. But on the set - unless you're filming in a wood working shop or a sea food kitchen like that C200 promo - and on the sticks, an adapter connected to a 1 or 2 TB SSD would be more convenient for those needing to record a lot of footage.
230 MB/s is still sufficient to capture the raw video from the c200.
I apologize for not reading every thread on the site prior to posting a comment. My mistake.
I fail to see the logic in that statement. If I were shooting a lot of footage (say an interview), I wouldn't want to shoot it in raw and could just-as-easily attach an external recorder.
I have a 3D printer, though, and some experience making 3D designs. Once I get the camera, I'd be interested in making the door with the open slot. I don't think drilling a hole in your $7.5k camera is a good idea.
I apologize for not reading every thread on the site prior to posting a comment. My mistake.
I fail to see the logic in that statement. If I were shooting a lot of footage (say an interview), I wouldn't want to shoot it in raw and could just-as-easily attach an external recorder.
I have a 3D printer, though, and some experience making 3D designs. Once I get the camera, I'd be interested in making the door with the open slot. I don't think drilling a hole in your $7.5k camera is a good idea.