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Some info on CF express cards for X-2HS

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Jerry-astro
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Re: Some info on CF express cards for X-2HS
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noggin2k1 wrote:

As someone who has "been there, done that" from a CFE perspective, I thought I'd give my input from experience.

To put things into the real world, even the slowest of CFE cards will massively outperform the best of UHS-II SD cards. Unless you're going big on the video, you're likely never going to touch the sides on the speed/buffer front on CFE cards.

I opted for the Angelbird SE series, because their 512GB cards are excellent value for excellent performance. Even smashing high fps RAW's, I've never once touched the limit of the buffer.

Sure, I probably could if I tried in the name of science - but it's certainly not needed in the real world for me at least.

While this might not necessarily be THE definitive source for such information, these guys are more often right than wrong on issues like this.  I will likely avoid Angelbird cards for the time being, at least until I hear differently from more than one credible source that their performance with the X-H2S has been professionally tested and will be acceptable:

https://www.fujirumors.com/do-not-use-these-angelbird-cfexpress-cards-on-fujifilm-x-h2s/

There are plenty of choices out there, so I guess I'm a bit on the risk adverse side when it comes to something as critical as these cards.

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