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sanj:
Help requested..
I will buy the 1DX as soon as I can get hold of one. I want to know which would be the best (speed and capacity) memory card for it? I do wildlife photography and want to reduce buffering time after shooting bursts.
I currently use 5d2 and 7d. Will the cards you advice work on these camera's as well?
Thank you for your time.

PeterJ:
The 1DX uses CF cards as well so they should all work together. Some of this will be speculative until it's released but given its relatively similar resolution to the 7D & 5D2 and same 14-bit sampling there's not any reason to think RAW files won't be in the same order of size at say 25MB. So 25MB x 12fps = 300MB/s and because I believe the fastest CF cards are currently 90MB/s it will really just be the fastest you can afford if you shoot RAW.

For JPEGs there's also no real reason to think they will be much different in size to your 5D2 so you could just work out the above based on the average size of some of your past shoots, it's been a while since I've shot in-camera JPEG but suspect 90MB/s will still be the best choice for that high frame rate, the next choice down of 60MB/s would probably limit it a bit.

As for capacity once again file sizes shouldn't be much different to your current gear, other than if you really like to take burst shots you'll probably go through 50% / 100% more so maybe double what you're currently using. That depends on if you like to wipe duds between shots and/or swap cards in case of emergency, per shot how much capacity you use shouldn't change much.

Ellen Schmidtee:

--- Quote from: PeterJ on January 22, 2012, 01:30:36 AM ---The 1DX uses CF cards as well so they should all work together. Some of this will be speculative until it's released but given its relatively similar resolution to the 7D & 5D2 and same 14-bit sampling there's not any reason to think RAW files won't be in the same order of size at say 25MB. So 25MB x 12fps = 300MB/s and because I believe the fastest CF cards are currently 90MB/s it will really just be the fastest you can afford if you shoot RAW.

--- End quote ---

There's a 100MB/s CF card by SanDisk, and Lexar announced a 150MB/s CF card.

bycostello:
dual cf slots so i'd putt two massive ones in there and shoot to one and back up to the other...  no more faffing with cards...

Dr.Jones:
If you ask me this is probably the best card you could have.

http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Pro-SDCFXP-128G-A91-CompactFlash-Card/dp/B004JNZJV4/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1327234822&sr=8-6

Depends on your budget of course ;) It is an quiet expensive memory card.

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