Alternative 16GB CF Cards?

[Dale Launer]

"It would be like going into a fancy restaurant byob."

FYI. It is not uncommon in the U.S. to go into the nicest restaurant with a bottle of your own wine. Most restaurants allow it, but charge you a "corkage" fee. I do it all the time.

 

[Lee Saxon]

There's not a standard for the xXXX claims but most guys tend to use ide bus analyzers to test speeds. Unfortunately, they don't really test for real world use conditions through a filesystem, etc. so they can be way off. Some manufacturers only report read speeds too which don't mean anything for recording.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007

 

[Jarred Land]

Come'on! I want all the formats Red One can handle in a 16gb CF for $199

so do we all.. but I don't want a 16gb CF card for $199 thats gonna crap out on me and introduce all sorts of corruption and disk errors.

Recording media is something we really don't screw around with taking Chances on...

 

[Lee Saxon]

I understand why many non-Red cards don't work on the Red camera, but I don't understand why the Red cards won't work on non-Red cameras.

 

[Carlo Pisani]

Hi Carlo,

As I mentioned in my PM, I used my Lexar on a shoot a few weeks ago (4KHD RC28) with no issues, though most of the recording was done to my Red Drive. After reading your post I decided to test it with a longer take time. So I filled the entire card with 1 take @ 4K 16x9 RC28 and again @ 4K 2:1 RC36 and neither take had any dropped frames. I'm on the release build of 17. I dunno, maybe I'm just lucky. If so, it's a rare thing.

Adrew thanks for testing. Wow, 4K 2:1 RC36 I must say that you got pretty lucky with those lexars!... as I said I've tested mines again and again at 4KHD RC28 both build 18 and 17 and after 20-30 sec they start dropping like crazy. I don't want to know what's the secret behind Red 16Gb cards, but I'd be really curious to know what makes two supposedly identical Lexar cards to behave differently.

Anyway, I hope things get interesting with the Pretec cards.

 

[Tom Lowe]

so do we all.. but I don't want a 16gb CF card for $199 thats gonna crap out on me and introduce all sorts of corruption and disk errors.

Recording media is something we really don't screw around with taking Chances on...

It only takes ONE incident of losing a once-in-a-lifetime shot before people say, "Nevermind the price, give me something reliable!"