Caffespresso Posted November 11, 2019 Share #1 Posted November 11, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) Which sd card is recommended for leica sl2, considering high bitrate on video? Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chuck Albertson Posted November 11, 2019 Share #2 Posted November 11, 2019 This one is the bees' knees for the SL, and should work fine with the SL2. If you're shooting a lot of video, you might want the 64GB or 128GB capacity. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1275618-REG/sandisk_sdsdxpk_032g_ancin_extreme_pro_uhs_ii_32gb.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
helged Posted November 11, 2019 Share #3 Posted November 11, 2019 Not for SL2 explictly, but an overview/recommendation nevertheless: https://www.l-camera-forum.com/sd-card-leica/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luca Posted November 11, 2019 Share #4 Posted November 11, 2019 Sony tough, expensive but the best ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caffespresso Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share #5 Posted November 11, 2019 9 hours ago, Caffespresso said: Thanks for all your answers. But I was asking about more precise specs as write speed etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted November 11, 2019 Share #6 Posted November 11, 2019 28 minutes ago, Caffespresso said: Surely any top spec card will be fine. Leica's usually seem to work well with Sandisk cards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scroy Posted November 11, 2019 Share #7 Posted November 11, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) Its difficult to tell from the general spec release, but 5K video likely requires either a V60/V90 class card to get full write speed. https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/choices/speed_class/index.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistairm Posted January 19, 2020 Share #8 Posted January 19, 2020 Do we know what the SL2’s write speed is? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caissa Posted January 19, 2020 Share #9 Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) As I am not using video I prefer a big card (512 gb) but only UHS I . For me this is more than fast enough and still affordable. (less than 100 $ ) (In video lingo this means V30, in reality it is faster. I don't measure it, knock on wood.) Video 4K/60P is probably the most demanding (if used in Full Frame mode). 5K is only 30P. Somewhere I read video data rate up to 400 Mbit/s that's about 50 Mbyte/s or more. This sounds like V60 (V90 to be on the very safe side). If you shoot photos at 20 fps, the amount of data is bigger, but you can do that only for a few seconds, then the buffer is full (20x47Mp, 78 raws fill the 2Gb buffer. Somehow it does not work, I thought a raw file on disk is about 80 MB. But the size in the buffer must be smaller. 25 MB vs 80 MB, the truth lies in the middle somewhere.) Anyway with V30 I can make photos easily (I usually do not 20 fps, or just in short bursts). V60 should be enough for video, V90 if you want to be on the safest side, probably overkill, even for video, but if you can afford it ... Edited January 19, 2020 by caissa 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebas_ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #10 Posted January 19, 2020 Strangely I am using the SandDisk Extreme Pro 300 mb/s UHS 2 cards, which give me errors when trying to film at 4K time 24 frames per second. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caissa Posted January 19, 2020 Share #11 Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) 300 is just the peak read speed. Is it V60 ? The guaranteed minimal write speed is important. Vnn. For video not the burst rate, but the continuous rate is crucial. For example “Class 10” only means 10 MB per second. Newer cards are maybe only 170 MB/s peak read, but V30 which is 3x the minimal write speed for video 30 MB/s . I use such cards, not the older class 10 . For video use V60, and don’t get blended by peak numbers. Edited January 19, 2020 by caissa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alf62 Posted February 8, 2020 Share #12 Posted February 8, 2020 (edited) On 11/11/2019 at 5:50 AM, Caffespresso said: Which sd card is recommended for leica sl2, considering high bitrate on video? Thanks! There is an SD Cards tab on the top of the page (right side). I use both, ProGrade V60 and Lexar Professional 2000x. Both work fine for me. Edited February 8, 2020 by Alf62 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photoworks Posted February 10, 2020 Share #13 Posted February 10, 2020 I found that the only 256GB card that works well is ProGrade v90 300MB/s. I was successful in capturing Video at C4K 24p L-Log On the M10-P I had freezing with 256GB Sandisk cards, so I am using the Sony 128GB v90 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caffespresso Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share #14 Posted February 10, 2020 Finally, I've bought 2x Lexar SDHC UHS-II 128gb and video at highest rate works perfectly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrM Posted February 15, 2020 Share #15 Posted February 15, 2020 Hi, Does anyone have experience with the Lexar 128Gb 1666x V60 card? photo and video? thx Marc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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