likealot Posted January 23, 2017 Share #1 Posted January 23, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) I wanted to ask if the Q can take the latest, fastest and high capacity SD cards or whether there are any limits? I know that some cameras are unable to function properly with cards that have a very large capacity or that have very low or very high writting speeds so thought to check if this is the case with the Q before I buy one. Any thoughts or recommendations please? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dadohead Posted January 23, 2017 Share #2 Posted January 23, 2017 I use a 64GB Lexar UHSII card in my Q. The card is rated 1000x or 150MBs. I can only take advantage of the higher data rate when importing to LR, as the Q is UHSI. I haven't had a single problem after thousands of exposures. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathorp Posted January 24, 2017 Share #3 Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) My card is a "Lexar Professional 256 GB Class 10 UHS-II 1000x Speed (150 MB/s) SDXC Flash Memory Card", which must be the same as mentioned by dadohead but with more capacity. I have not had any problems transferring data - performance depends to some extent on the card reader. For that I use a Kingston FCR-HS4 reader which is USB 3.0 and supports UHS-II. (It performed well in the comparison reviews I read, That was about 5 months ago). The only issue I have had is that some of my files (about 5% of them) do not display some of the meta-data in Windows 10 File Explorer e.g. thumbnail, dimensions, shutter speed, aperture. However these details do show up in Lightroom. So I must have an operating system problem (as suggested by another contributor when I inquired about this in another post). Edited January 24, 2017 by mathorp 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faxao Posted January 24, 2017 Share #4 Posted January 24, 2017 I use a 64GB Lexar UHSII card in my Q. The card is rated 1000x or 150MBs. I can only take advantage of the higher data rate when importing to LR, as the Q is UHSI. I haven't had a single problem after thousands of exposures. +1 same here 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likealot Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share #5 Posted February 2, 2017 (edited) I assume that a Sandisk Extreme Pro 300Mb/s should be good to use as well? Or would the Lexar be sufficient without having to spend that much money on the Sandisk? Edited February 2, 2017 by likealot Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beez Posted February 5, 2017 Share #6 Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) I assume that a Sandisk Extreme Pro 300Mb/s should be good to use as well? Or would the Lexar be sufficient without having to spend that much money on the Sandisk? Yes, I use SanDisk 64GB UHSI and the faster USHII cards interchangeably, and they work fine. But the 300 MB/sec cards write to the card from the camera at the slower USHI rate. Edited February 5, 2017 by beez Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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