Grrrr!

Alan Sh said:

It was at Wex in Leeds (UK). They had some nice discounts on lenses - shame I bought mine last week. But never mind - I don't regret buying the one I got.

Alan

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Cheers

With all precautions taken, recommended doesn't mean one has to buy from the list.

I have used Sony Cards as well aas many other 'known' brands (including Kingston) in most all my cameras. My only recommendation is to format the card with the camera before starting using it.

It may simply be a defective card, which is more likely the cause, more than its brand not being recommended..

Just saying...

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Alan Sh said:

I had a lovely long chat with the Fuji rep at the open day. She was of the opinion that as long as I got UHS II cards at V60 or more, then they should be fine. The list from Fuji are just recommendations, not compulsory. If I want to do high speed video, then I should use V90 or CF-Express cards.

So, I have ordered some of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074M64L1L and will test them out when they arrive.

Alan

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That seems to be exactly correct advice based on the testing done for the chart that I had posted higher in the thread. As I have no plans to shoot anything higher than 4K video, the UHS II V60 is what I bought (Lexar 1667x), and a SanDisk Extreme Pro 100mbs for the second slot (used for JPEGs). No problems, and I don't expect any as I don't shoot long bursts nor much video.

Again, if you like the Kingston line, the React Plus will be fine for your main slot.

Felice62 said:

With all precautions taken, recommended doesn't mean one has to buy from the list.

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I have got the impression that with CFExpress, compatibility really is a thing and you are best off getting a card from a "recommended" list. And it also doesn't hurt checking the manfufactuers compatibility claims.

But for SD cards of various speeds and grades, it really shouldn't matter too much -- a much simpler type of interface and not really anything in the way of compatibility issues.

That one card that gave an error might have a single bad flash-memory cell due to age and then it can be hard to trigger the error because the card may not be writing to that cell for a long time.

I wouldn't trust it much though!

Seconded.

Once a SD card fails I quarantine it. It happens every now and then (3-4 times in the past 10 years, maybe) and I have no idea what the MTBF is but it is true that buying from reputed brands, even if not in the compatibility list, never failed on me

Others' mileage varies, I imagine..