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Lexar Pro CF Card Deal at B&H

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  1. Michael McVay

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    Steve: The guy I do some filming with uses Magic Lantern on a 5D II and a 5D III and he uses these cards. I just ordered a couple of them and also got the 2-4 week shipping time frame. Not in a desperate need for them so its worth the wait for me.
     
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    Michael: Does he manage to get 30fps? The best I've seen was 24fps on this class of CF card.

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    I'll check in with him and let you know. He is filming in MI this week, but I'm sure I can find out.

    Is there a faster class of card available? I thought these cards equaled the fastest speeds that the current cameras could write. I know there is a new spec that is going to be much faster, but is it out yet? I plan to keep my 5D IIIs for a while yet so I am limited by what they can do.
     
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    I think the speed limit is caused by the DIGIC chip in the camera -- it simply cannot scrape'n'write the data at 30 fps allowing for the speed of the CF card. A colleague of mine tested the 5D MK III with the Lexar cards and at 30 fps we were lucky to get two or three seconds with ML before the CF/camera dropped data.

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    There seems to be no faster CF cards than the Lexar at "1066x" (x is fast approaching zero ;)), and I've never heard of anybody able to get anything more than 24 or 25 fps at 1080P. You can go faster at lower resolutions. But I think these hacks have tapped out the CPU power in the 5DM3 and its I/O pipeline. I'd love to see somebody take a crack at the 1DX, as I believe it has a lot more CPU horsepower than the 5DM3, but of course very few people own a 1DX (I do not).
     
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    I just heard back from the guy I do some filming with and we get about 30 seconds on a 5D III shooting RAW video on these cards with ML. Yeah, its not much, but there are a number of things we use short clips for that are under 30 seconds.
     
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    Is it 30 seconds before it fails, or that's all the card will hold?
     
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    Before it gets a dropped frame.
     
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    That's not encouraging for those of us who are flying these cameras. I thought there were cards that worked more reliably than that.
     
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    Like you mention above, I don't think its the cards. There are some things inside ML that you can turn off to free up processing power - some of the meters, graphs, etc I think. I do know you can do longer clips if you drop your frame rate. Everything is a compromise with this one...at least for now.
     
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    It's at this point that programmers amongst are thinking: "Halt and wait for next version."
    I suspect it could be that we have to wait for the nextgen of the 5D before we can really get the bandwidth we need.

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