What would you want CFexpress or SD cards for the next batch of Cameras?

quiquae wrote:

tqlla wrote:

Dan W wrote:

jwilliams wrote:

SD for me. Every camera I own uses them and I have no desire for adding another card type. Nikon probably lost out on a potential customer by ONLY using XQD cards in the Z cameras. I was initially favoring them over an R even though I had EF lenses already. I do no photography that cannot be handled by a SD card so why would I want to needlessly complicate my life? Hope Canon realizes this.

I agree with you because I don't use video, just stills. But for the 8K video it may require much faster cards that can't be achieved with todays SD cards. I'm suspecting we will see Cfexpress needed because of that. They are crazy expensive but so was SD at one time. As they become more popular the price will drop. I have only 2 cards I carry with me for my R, a 128gb in camera and a 64gb as backup. The 128gb holds over a 1000 RAWs, I'll never shoot that without a chance to off load the card to my locals and cloud. So if the R having 2 slots, I would buy 2 large cards and set camera to record to both cards in RAW so I have a built in backup. Thats what I did with my 5D3.

Well dont forget the EOS R5 is supposed to be around 45MP. Which means that the file sizes will be around 50% larger. So you may want those larger cards

EOS R’s RAW averages about 35MB in size without C-RAW enabled. (File sizes range from 30MB to 43MB depending on how well they compress.) Assuming the RAW scales linearly with pixel count, R5’s RAW would have an average size of 52MB. A 128GB card would hold about 2400 such files, so Dan W is still well in the clear.

Thats true. Even at 80MB(Raw+JPG) and 112GB(Formatted), you can take around 1400 images. So 128GB is probably good enough for most people who arent shooting a lot of video.

But still, $400-$520 for a pair of 128GB CFExpress cards is still a lot of money on top of the cost of the camera.