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I am using Sandisk 64 GB Extreme III cards in my Fuji X-Pro 1. Are they too big to work in the MM which is winging its way here as we speak? The manual I downloaded seems to indicate 32 GB is the max. :confused:

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Probably pure superstition, but I never go over 8. I have found that cards can have problems more often than the camera and I don't want to have a lot of eggs in one basket. I had a lot of problems with Sandisk, none with Panasonic Gold. I have recently taken to not emptying the card after it is downloaded -- another backup system.

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Probably pure superstition, but I never go over 8. I have found that cards can have problems more often than the camera and I don't want to have a lot of eggs in one basket. I had a lot of problems with Sandisk, none with Panasonic Gold. I have recently taken to not emptying the card after it is downloaded -- another backup system.

 

Interesting, thanks. I think the 16 GB I have is Panasonic Gold. The 64 GB Sandisks have never, so far, been a problem in my X-Pro 1. I import using LR 4 as soon as possible after a shoot onto external HDD and back that up to another regularly - which reminds me....:eek:

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Probably pure superstition, but I never go over 8. I have found that cards can have problems more often than the camera and I don't want to have a lot of eggs in one basket. I had a lot of problems with Sandisk, none with Panasonic Gold. I have recently taken to not emptying the card after it is downloaded -- another backup system.

 

You are not alone in this thought process. I often travel for weeks at a time and decided to go with 32GB Sandisk cards mostly purchased from Adorama. They must have sold the true Sandisk cards as I have not had problems with any. I understand many fake Sandisk cards are out there.

 

When traveling I immediately backup to 2x480GB OWC, SSD drives and leave all data on my SD cards until they are all full in effect leaving 3 backups while on the road until such time I am back home to transfer images to 3 external RAID systems. Yes, I know (!), but in Hurricane Andrew in 1992 I lost every image (slides) from 25 years of world-wide once in a lifetime photography (special assignments) since digital backup systems had not become readily available. I hope to NOT let that history repeat itself.

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The M seems to have no trouble with a 64 GB Sandisk. Has there been a change in the capacity of cards supported?

Yes. The M (Typ 240) now supports SD, SDHC, and SDXC cards. The previous M models (including the M Monochrom) support only SD (up to 2 GB) and SDHC (up to 32 GB) but no SDXC (up to 2 TB) cards.

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I ordered a Sandisk 32gb Extreme pro 95mb/s Uhs-1 for the M and found it worked fine in the M9. Expecting faster speed in writing M9 files it was not quick at all.

 

 

The M9 is the limiting factor - not your card.

However, you should benefit from the faster speeds if you download your images from the card in a fast card reader.

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Yes. The M (Typ 240) now supports SD, SDHC, and SDXC cards. The previous M models (including the M Monochrom) support only SD (up to 2 GB) and SDHC (up to 32 GB) but no SDXC (up to 2 TB) cards.

 

I wish I hadn't bought that new card as I'm still keeping my M9. Oh well.

 

 

- Vikas

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The M9 is the limiting factor - not your card.

However, you should benefit from the faster speeds if you download your images from the card in a fast card reader.

 

Yes, exactly what happens, the downloads to computer are very quick, nice to have but not imperative for me. Surprisingly a cheap ($25) Samsung 32gb card is significantly faster in the M9, slightly less than 20% faster. According to the write speeds the Sandisk should be the faster.

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I wish I hadn't bought that new [sandisk SDXC 64 GB] card as I'm still keeping my M9.

So what? It is not a good idea to use the same card in several cameras anyway. So put the new 64 GB card in the M and your SD/SDHC cards in the M9 and avoid swapping cards between cameras.

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So what? It is not a good idea to use the same card in several cameras anyway. So put the new 64 GB card in the M and your SD/SDHC cards in the M9 and avoid swapping cards between cameras.

 

Sure. I'm not too fussed by it. In fact it may be useful that the M9 wont work with it so I'm forced to keep it separated.

 

- Vikas

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So what? It is not a good idea to use the same card in several cameras anyway. So put the new 64 GB card in the M and your SD/SDHC cards in the M9 and avoid swapping cards between cameras.

 

As my other response said, this works for me but as a side issue I discovered another issue. The card can't be read by the iPad using the Apple SD card reader. It reads my older 4GB and 16GB cards but not the fancy new 64GB.

 

The 64 GB card is actually a microSD card in a full size adapter. I'm told that a Samsung device with a microSD reader built it will read it.

 

 

- Vikas

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