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

David Hull wrote:

jwilliams 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.

I wish Canon or someone would come up with a camera completely devoid of video functions. I don't need that for PHOTOGRAPHS. Also I have to laugh at reviews that say camera x is better than camera y because it does 20 fps vs 10 fps. I doubt even people shooting sports need that, and if they do, I pity them having to sort thru all those photos trying to find the good one to publish. From a speed and throughput perspective cameras have long eclipsed any speed limit I could use. I just want to take photos in as simple and straightforward manner as possible. 90% (at least) of the stuff on modern cameras just gets in the way for me. I'm probably in the minority though.

I would question how much cost would be saved by removing the video features.

Cost savings would be minimal or maybe nothing. Point is you don't have to wade thru a bunch of stuff you don't want to get at the stuff you do want. Simpler meus. No video record button (use it for something useful or get rid of it for a cleaner interface), etc., e tc.

It could potentially make thing simpler for camera designers as heat dissipation is much less.  For example, could make an IBIS system more effective or simpler to design due to not needing to draw as much heat away from the sensor etc.