Memory card(s) for G9

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

Keit ll wrote:

I find that high capacity, fast cards are not really needed & are better for egos rather than actually neccessary. The exception may be if video is used a lot.

Get a card with sufficient capacity that you never fill up on normal usage & get two. Keep the second card in the second card slot. Even if you never use it it is always there as a backup & if you remove the first card for processing & forget to replace it!

Thanks, that's a relevant point as I have several times turned on my GX7 only to get a no card message on the screen!

I think it depends on what you are going to do with the camera. I shoot mostly wildlife and write RAW to both cards in high speed mode with a fair amount of video as well. I bought the 2-pack of Lexar Professional 128GB cards for $65 on Amazon in February. I bought some a couple months later for my R6 and they were $75. Now they are $92. They have worked great in both cameras. Use something slower if that works for you. When I bought the R6 I used the 2 from the G9 for a few days while the new ones were on the way and I used older UHS1 SanDsik 128 cards in the G9 and it was aggravating to me because I would shoot a couple of bursts and have to wait while the camera wrote to the card. It never locked up but would slow down considerable, For single shot and most video I don’t know if you’d notice the difference. Shoot bursts and 4K 60P and I think you will. The Lexar Professionals are relatively cheap cards that work very nicely IMO. They seem to actually live up to their specs.

Keit ll wrote:

I find that high capacity, fast cards are not really needed & are better for egos rather than actually neccessary. The exception may be if video is used a lot.

Get a card with sufficient capacity that you never fill up on normal usage & get two. Keep the second card in the second card slot. Even if you never use it it is always there as a backup & if you remove the first card for processing & forget to replace it!

Common misconception here- capturing burst photos requires a faster card than shooting video. If the thread starter is shooting burst speeds then he definitely needs a fast card. How fast? I haven't figured it out yet with the G9.

Several users report data corruption with lexar cards and a variety of Panasonic cameras S5, GH5, G9 it is not clear why but some brands have kore problems than others

there are relatively low cost UHS-II cards by kingston, integral and transcend that works great with the G9 in the fastest burst mode

i currently use transcend 64GB on the G9

I had some issues with filling buffers and so I bought one of these and problem solved

SD UHS-II 64GB Card V60 –Up to 130MB: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

You can buy a transcend v90 for the same price

I use two 128gb UHSii lexar 1667x V60 cards in my G9, they were cheap and are working well for almost a year now.

My gx80 has the same but only one 64gb card, also no problems.

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

G9 has an odd SD card setup with really low write speeds on both UHS-I and II.

https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-panasonic-g9-a-speed-comparison/

I use Samsung UHS-I cards and they're perfect. Yes if you need to clear the buffer quickly then UHS-II is better but the G9 buffer is rarely an issue for me and the price of UHS-II cards is still nuts.

Minstadave wrote:

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

G9 has an odd SD card setup with really low write speeds on both UHS-I and II.

https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-panasonic-g9-a-speed-comparison/

I use Samsung UHS-I cards and they're perfect. Yes if you need to clear the buffer quickly then UHS-II is better but the G9 buffer is rarely an issue for me and the price of UHS-II cards is still nuts.

When you use a UHS-I card the speed drops. Even if the slot only write 90 MB/s when you use an UHS-I those become 45 MB/s. In addition when you download images to your PC you are also waiting longer

unless you are a casual photographer it is easy to clock 300 exposures in a short session so you wait second not minutes

Minstadave wrote:

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

G9 has an odd SD card setup with really low write speeds on both UHS-I and II.

https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-panasonic-g9-a-speed-comparison/

I use Samsung UHS-I cards and they're perfect. Yes if you need to clear the buffer quickly then UHS-II is better but the G9 buffer is rarely an issue for me and the price of UHS-II cards is still nuts.

I'm not sure how good or bad that site is, but using what seemed like their method, I measured 16.5 secs to clear the buffer of my lexar cards.

From their buffer size guess, 96.96 MB/s for my lexar.

Interceptor121 wrote:

Minstadave wrote:

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

G9 has an odd SD card setup with really low write speeds on both UHS-I and II.

https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-panasonic-g9-a-speed-comparison/

I use Samsung UHS-I cards and they're perfect. Yes if you need to clear the buffer quickly then UHS-II is better but the G9 buffer is rarely an issue for me and the price of UHS-II cards is still nuts.

When you use a UHS-I card the speed drops. Even if the slot only write 90 MB/s when you use an UHS-I those become 45 MB/s. In addition when you download images to your PC you are also waiting longer

unless you are a casual photographer it is easy to clock 300 exposures in a short session so you wait second not minutes

Write speed only makes a difference to buffer clearance if taking stills. I very rarely fill the buffer using my G9 so the benefit to me is minimal of the UHS-II cards. Sure, if you're blasting away with high speed bursts it'll make a difference.

The faster read speeds make importing quicker but that doesn't seem a huge benefit, I'm not a pro so I'm not in a rush.

kalisti wrote:

Minstadave wrote:

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

G9 has an odd SD card setup with really low write speeds on both UHS-I and II.

https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-panasonic-g9-a-speed-comparison/

I use Samsung UHS-I cards and they're perfect. Yes if you need to clear the buffer quickly then UHS-II is better but the G9 buffer is rarely an issue for me and the price of UHS-II cards is still nuts.

I'm not sure how good or bad that site is, but using what seemed like their method, I measured 16.5 secs to clear the buffer of my lexar cards.

From their buffer size guess, 96.96 MB/s for my lexar.

Sounds about right. The G9 doesn't look to go much over 100MB/s even with the high end cards.

Minstadave wrote:

Interceptor121 wrote:

Minstadave wrote:

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

G9 has an odd SD card setup with really low write speeds on both UHS-I and II.

https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-panasonic-g9-a-speed-comparison/

I use Samsung UHS-I cards and they're perfect. Yes if you need to clear the buffer quickly then UHS-II is better but the G9 buffer is rarely an issue for me and the price of UHS-II cards is still nuts.

When you use a UHS-I card the speed drops. Even if the slot only write 90 MB/s when you use an UHS-I those become 45 MB/s. In addition when you download images to your PC you are also waiting longer

unless you are a casual photographer it is easy to clock 300 exposures in a short session so you wait second not minutes

Write speed only makes a difference to buffer clearance if taking stills. I very rarely fill the buffer using my G9 so the benefit to me is minimal of the UHS-II cards. Sure, if you're blasting away with high speed bursts it'll make a difference.

The faster read speeds make importing quicker but that doesn't seem a huge benefit, I'm not a pro so I'm not in a rush.

The price difference is minimal.

the camera uses the buffer for bursts and bracketing stacking etc

if you use none of those and are happy to wait you can save few bucks

Interceptor121 wrote:

Minstadave wrote:

Interceptor121 wrote:

Minstadave wrote:

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

G9 has an odd SD card setup with really low write speeds on both UHS-I and II.

https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-panasonic-g9-a-speed-comparison/

I use Samsung UHS-I cards and they're perfect. Yes if you need to clear the buffer quickly then UHS-II is better but the G9 buffer is rarely an issue for me and the price of UHS-II cards is still nuts.

When you use a UHS-I card the speed drops. Even if the slot only write 90 MB/s when you use an UHS-I those become 45 MB/s. In addition when you download images to your PC you are also waiting longer

unless you are a casual photographer it is easy to clock 300 exposures in a short session so you wait second not minutes

Write speed only makes a difference to buffer clearance if taking stills. I very rarely fill the buffer using my G9 so the benefit to me is minimal of the UHS-II cards. Sure, if you're blasting away with high speed bursts it'll make a difference.

The faster read speeds make importing quicker but that doesn't seem a huge benefit, I'm not a pro so I'm not in a rush.

The price difference is minimal.

the camera uses the buffer for bursts and bracketing stacking etc

if you use none of those and are happy to wait you can save few bucks

128GB Samsung UHS-I is £15. Even a cheap Prograde UHS-II card is £75 and £125 for the faster one.

64GB is closer, Samsung is £9 and its £30 and £80 for the two Progrades compared.

The Sony Tough and G cards are even more expensive.

I dont think that's minimal. 4 times the price for even a cheap UHS-II card and almost 10 times for the high end ones.

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

I am no expert, but I purchased the 256GB version of this card for my E-M5 III during a short promotion, to replace my dead SanDisk Extreme Pro:

Lexar Professional 1667x 256GB

Here is the benchmark with CrystalDiskMark on a HyperDrive Gen2 6-port:

Benchmark result with CrystalDiskMark

This card is a low-cost (and slower) UHS-II, but still faster than any UHS-I card. Thus IMO this card is better if the price are similar to UHS-I.

This is the first Lexar Professional card that I purchased, and I am yet to experience any issues with this card. YMMV though. In real life, this is about 0.5 sec faster for writing each RAW image I take.

Please note that for SanDisk Extreme, the so-called "150MB/sec" transfer speed is limited to their UHS-I card readers. For other devices, the transfer speeds are about 90MB/sec read and 70-80MB/sec write.

I do suggest buying 2 UHS-I cards if the price each is half of Lexar, since I think redundancy is always more important than being just a bit faster.

Minstadave wrote:

Interceptor121 wrote:

Minstadave wrote:

Interceptor121 wrote:

Minstadave wrote:

rurikw wrote:

I'm sure this has been covered but a quick search didn't yield quite the answers I hoped for so would be grateful for any advice. I'm on the verge of buying a used G9 for 799€ and trying to calculate total cost including necessary accessories such as spare batteries and memory cards. I'd rather not pay more than 50€/card though I guess I don't need to buy two cards just because I have two slots.

I've tried to read up on card specs but am still a bit confused. Anyway I found a card on offer for 40€ that seems to have quite high specs and looks like it should be sufficient, maybe even overkill for my needs. I haven't ever shot long fast bursts and only little video but that doesn't mean I might not want to take advantage of the G9's capacities in the future and the 6K mode looks interesting.

The card is a Lexar Professional SDXC 250MB/s XCII V60 U3 C10 . How would you experts rate it? For comparison I might mention a Sandisk Extreme 150MB/s XCI V30 U3 C10 for 19€ which I guess just might be sufficient(?) but saving (2x?)21€ and then run into speed limits or just not taking advantage of the G9's potential doesn't sound very clever. Both are 64GB. Never came close to filling that on my GX7.

G9 has an odd SD card setup with really low write speeds on both UHS-I and II.

https://alikgriffin.com/best-memory-cards-panasonic-g9-a-speed-comparison/

I use Samsung UHS-I cards and they're perfect. Yes if you need to clear the buffer quickly then UHS-II is better but the G9 buffer is rarely an issue for me and the price of UHS-II cards is still nuts.

When you use a UHS-I card the speed drops. Even if the slot only write 90 MB/s when you use an UHS-I those become 45 MB/s. In addition when you download images to your PC you are also waiting longer

unless you are a casual photographer it is easy to clock 300 exposures in a short session so you wait second not minutes

Write speed only makes a difference to buffer clearance if taking stills. I very rarely fill the buffer using my G9 so the benefit to me is minimal of the UHS-II cards. Sure, if you're blasting away with high speed bursts it'll make a difference.

The faster read speeds make importing quicker but that doesn't seem a huge benefit, I'm not a pro so I'm not in a rush.

The price difference is minimal.

the camera uses the buffer for bursts and bracketing stacking etc

if you use none of those and are happy to wait you can save few bucks

128GB Samsung UHS-I is £15. Even a cheap Prograde UHS-II card is £75 and £125 for the faster one.

64GB is closer, Samsung is £9 and its £30 and £80 for the two Progrades compared.

The Sony Tough and G cards are even more expensive.

I dont think that's minimal. 4 times the price for even a cheap UHS-II card and almost 10 times for the high end ones.

You don’t need 128 GB

64 GB is fine and two dual v90 cards are £70 and you are sorted forever

you buy a good camera you don’t want to limit with an average card that’s my approach

if you shoot random images you probably dont need the G9 either is all in scale