CF Express 4.0 memory cards

[ronbyram]

Hello Gang,
I am a R6 Mark II owner but I am thinking about moving up to either the Mark III and or R5 or a used R1 for my sport photography.
Does anyone recomend a brand and or size.

Does anyone know if the 4.0 format is supported? I know Memory is high $ but wanted to ask.

I currently use Prograde 256 cards on my Mark II

 

[neuroanatomist]

Depends on what you mean by supported. CFe v4 work fine, but Canon bodies only support v2 speeds. I have a set of Prograde v4 cards (3 x 256 GB, 2 x 1 TB) that I use with my R1. The faster speed means copying files to my Mac is fast, but slower cards would not be a bottleneck for the camera.

 

[ronbyram]

Thanks, with prices going up and low supply due to demands, I was just researching and making plans. I had called Canon support and asked they said no, so Didn't know if it was a total won't work and or like the Chevy Trucks that are 8 cyl and they cut 4 cyl off on the highway for fuel efficiency.

 

[koenkooi]

The R5 did ~500mbyte/s write and the R5Ii does ~600mbyte/s, both of which are still far below v2 speeds (1800mbyte/s max). And like @neuroanatomist I use v4 cards (but in an R5II) to get the files to the computer faster.

 

[OldDudePhotog]

Hello Gang,
I am a R6 Mark II owner but I am thinking about moving up to either the Mark III and or R5 or a used R1 for my sport photography.
Does anyone recomend a brand and or size.

Does anyone know if the 4.0 format is supported? I know Memory is high $ but wanted to ask.

I currently use Prograde 256 cards on my Mark II

The camera will use v4 cards just fine, you just don't get the speed from the camera because the camera is not fast enough to make use of it. The benefit is when you dump the card to a PC if you have a V4 card reader, that will go much faster. I use delkin power 1tb cards in my R1 and they work very well.