A.K. Posted September 17, 2015 Share #1 Posted September 17, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Has anyone tried the new Lexar 2000x 64GB or 1000x 128GB cards yet in the Q? If so any problems? I can not find any definitive answer as to max card capacity, neither by emailing Leica or in literature... Many Thanks in advance A.K. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pico Posted September 17, 2015 Share #2 Posted September 17, 2015 It appears that Leica does not want to be responsible for all the different memory cards available, and I cannot blame them. However, most advise to use 64GB, max because it holds so many pictures that a card failure means a lot of likely lost images.I stick to 16 & 32GB, and keep a couple spares ready but never had to change in the middle of a day or event. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucerne Posted September 17, 2015 Share #3 Posted September 17, 2015 Apparently, the Leica Q does not support the UHS-II interface. That probably means that the transfer rate within the camera is limited to 95mb/second and there may be little benefit in deploying high performance cards. However, once the card has been removed and used on computers with higher speed interfaces, file transfer can be much faster. They may be other forum members with useful knowledge in this case, so let the topic run. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucerne Posted September 17, 2015 Share #4 Posted September 17, 2015 Although the Q doesn't currently allow RAW only capture, it is possible to set the camera to record very small JPEGS, thereby saving storage space on your card. This situation may change if Leica updates its firmware to enable RAW only. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 17, 2015 Share #5 Posted September 17, 2015 What is the sense of storing a zillion photographs on one card? If it fails (and don't think cards cannot fail!) you will have lost the lot... 16 GB does me fine. Just buy a few of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Msohio Posted September 17, 2015 Share #6 Posted September 17, 2015 Gordon.....Great point about reducing JPEG file size. Will make a very big difference, thank you...Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey James Posted September 17, 2015 Share #7 Posted September 17, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) I use the lowest jpeg resolution, but beware. Inadvertently, in the middle of shooting in a torrential rainshower, I managed to turn off the RAW shooting capacity, and for about 100 images had these useless little jpegs that weren't as good as an Iphone. I had assumed that the camera automatically shot RAW. Silly me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
piran Posted September 18, 2015 Share #8 Posted September 18, 2015 Has anyone tried the new Lexar 2000x 64GB or 1000x 128GB cards yet in the Q? I have not and almost certainly won't. [ Leica Q technical data PDF ] Storage media SD/SDHC/SDXC, multimedia cards, speed class: UHS-1. [ Leica Q manual PDF ] • The range of SD/SDHC/SDXC cards available is too large for Leica Camera AG to be able to completely test all available types for compatibility and quality. Although using other card types is not likely to damage the camera or the card, some "no name" cards do not comply with the SD/SDHC/SDXC standards and Leica Camera AG is unable to provide any guarantee that they will function correctly. IOW the availability of greater capacity and/or speed classification media already exceeds the existing requirements of the Leica Q. It is therefore only up to your own requirements. I use SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB up to 95 MB/s (633X) cards in my Leica Q. The card's spec already exceeds the Q's spec but its read capability is helpful unloading the images back at base. Other stuff here also uses the same card which is useful for me. The Q reports approx 2000 exposures available after its format. What might be more pertinent is that it would take ~20 batteries to fully utilise that 128GB capacity just for stills, not sure about video as I don't use it. So, a faster card with more capacity in the camera would be a bit of a waste, the only useful criteria can only be considered for your own out-of-the-camera logistics. There 'may' be an issue of compatibility too... At best the camera might enforce its own design limit on any use of higher media ie UHS-1 or, at worst, fail to recognise even the media's existence. See also: https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/speed/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
matlep Posted September 18, 2015 Share #9 Posted September 18, 2015 Du to certain circumstances, I had a 256gb card in my Q for a while.( A 90mb/s card.) And it worked flawlessly. Never filled it up though After that I used the Lexar 32 gig x2000 card with gives 300mb/s and they also worked flawlessly. Not sure it gave any specific advantages over my regular cards, but it worked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jip Posted September 18, 2015 Share #10 Posted September 18, 2015 I've always used 8GB cards in my M8, then 16 GB cards in my M9 and M240, now 32GB in the S... more than enough for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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