Memory cards for R6 Mark II

In the end, after some debate, I ended up buying a Canon R6 Mark II. Yay! However, I now need to order a couple of memory cards as well and the question is, which ones?

I'd be tempted to buy two 128 GB v90 cards like the Lexar 2000x or the Kingston Canvas React Plus so as to have the fastest buffer clearing as well as great performance when recording video. My logic is that, at least for photography, I'm not going to fill up the memory cards. I'll run out of batteries (even with a spare battery) faster than I'll run out of room.

On the other hand, maybe v60 cards are good enough and I could easily get 2x256GB v60 and save money over 2x128GB v90. And the extra space could be handy for video.

What do you folks think?

I bought a Sandisk 512gb card, only good for "200MB/s", but I haven't had any issues with it, though I can't say I'm utilizing the fps on my R6II very often.  But in general, I don't want to worry about running out of space.  And I like to leave data on the card until I feel like I have sufficient backups.

There are charts at the end of the user manual that show exactly how fast of cards are needed for what settings.   The fastest are only needed for full size 4k60 and full size FHD180.

Raw buffer for stills is like 75 vs 85 for full CR3 files using UHSI vs UHSII.

I took a look at what I’m likely to shoot and purchased accordingly.  V60 is enough.  The files that need the fastest cards also use the most storage.

mapleshots wrote:

In the end, after some debate, I ended up buying a Canon R6 Mark II. Yay! However, I now need to order a couple of memory cards as well and the question is, which ones?

I'd be tempted to buy two 128 GB v90 cards like the Lexar 2000x or the Kingston Canvas React Plus so as to have the fastest buffer clearing as well as great performance when recording video. My logic is that, at least for photography, I'm not going to fill up the memory cards. I'll run out of batteries (even with a spare battery) faster than I'll run out of room.

On the other hand, maybe v60 cards are good enough and I could easily get 2x256GB v60 and save money over 2x128GB v90. And the extra space could be handy for video.

What do you folks think?

I went with one Sandisk 128GB UHS-II V90 card. Love it, it writes so fast! On the other slot I still have the old Sandisk 128GB UHS-1. I'll wait until the summer to get another UHS-II card.

José B wrote:

mapleshots wrote:

In the end, after some debate, I ended up buying a Canon R6 Mark II. Yay! However, I now need to order a couple of memory cards as well and the question is, which ones?

I'd be tempted to buy two 128 GB v90 cards like the Lexar 2000x or the Kingston Canvas React Plus so as to have the fastest buffer clearing as well as great performance when recording video. My logic is that, at least for photography, I'm not going to fill up the memory cards. I'll run out of batteries (even with a spare battery) faster than I'll run out of room.

On the other hand, maybe v60 cards are good enough and I could easily get 2x256GB v60 and save money over 2x128GB v90. And the extra space could be handy for video.

What do you folks think?

I went with one Sandisk 128GB UHS-II V90 card. Love it, it writes so fast! On the other slot I still have the old Sandisk 128GB UHS-1. I'll wait until the summer to get another UHS-II card.

If you’re writing to both cards, the camera will write at the speed of the slower card.  You might test to see what happens if you have the second slot populated, but are not writing to it.

R2

ps. I really like the Sony G Series (with M Series as backup).  Only 1 slot populated tho.

R2D2 wrote:

José B wrote:

mapleshots wrote:

In the end, after some debate, I ended up buying a Canon R6 Mark II. Yay! However, I now need to order a couple of memory cards as well and the question is, which ones?

I'd be tempted to buy two 128 GB v90 cards like the Lexar 2000x or the Kingston Canvas React Plus so as to have the fastest buffer clearing as well as great performance when recording video. My logic is that, at least for photography, I'm not going to fill up the memory cards. I'll run out of batteries (even with a spare battery) faster than I'll run out of room.

On the other hand, maybe v60 cards are good enough and I could easily get 2x256GB v60 and save money over 2x128GB v90. And the extra space could be handy for video.

What do you folks think?

I went with one Sandisk 128GB UHS-II V90 card. Love it, it writes so fast! On the other slot I still have the old Sandisk 128GB UHS-1. I'll wait until the summer to get another UHS-II card.

If you’re writing to both cards, the camera will write at the speed of the slower card. You might test to see what happens if you have the second slot populated, but are not writing to it.

R2

ps. I really like the Sony G Series (with M Series as backup). Only 1 slot populated tho.

Thanks. In my C3 setting which I dedicate to action and movement (shooting in bursts) I only write to the UHS-II card.

While I don't have an R6 Mark II (or I), I personally would use the fastest card possible. Not because the camera needs it, but because I need it...haha. I really like having a very fast read speed when copying my images to my computer. The Kingston Canvas React Plus SD cards are the fastest that I own, when using the Kingston Mobile Lite Plus card reader that came bundled with the cards . I have several different brands of UHS-II cards to use in my EOS R and a Sony RX-100 III and have tested all of them in various card readers for read and write speed using CrystalDiskMark 8. I also have tested them in my EOS R for fomat speed as well as clearing the buffer.

I have been using memory cards since 1998 and sd cards for 10+ years and have only had two failures in memory cards. One was a Hitachi MicroDrive CF card about 20 years ago, and the other was a Lexar Professional UHS-II 32gb sd card two weeks ago. The Lexar failure was due to the plastic housing of the card splitting. I guess the glue failed. The card still worked, but I was afraid to keep putting in in a camera and having it damage the camera card slot. But a failure none the less, but I would not think twice about buying another Lexar card. That card had definitely had a great life in several cameras.

For some specific data with the R6 Mark II https://rfshooters.com/blog/cameras/canon-r6-mark-ii/memory-cards/

I agree with Justus7 (above) - V60 is enough for the fastest H+ frame rate on my R5, so if you don’t do 4K60 video, save some money. V60 cards are very inexpensive, so you can have several. They will be perfect in an R6ii.

Actually I really wish my R5 had two UHS-II SD card slots instead of a CFExpress card.  CFE cards are very expensive, need a new card reader, and I don’t need its abilities.