I have to buy SanDisk Extreme PRO CFexpress Card Type B 64GB for nikon Z8?

[abc123brian]

Hello , sorry to bother you again. Could you help me please , thank you. I would like to know if it's good this SD UHS-II 128GB Card V60 –Up to 130MB/s Write Speed and 250 MB/s Read Speed | before ordering. I want your opinion. Thank you s much.

With SD cards pay attention to the V##. This is the guaranteed sustained write speed. A V60 rated card is guaranteed to write at 60MB/s. A V90 card at 90MB/s. The Up to speeds advertised are a theoretical maximum and usually for a very short burst. If you plan to shoot many fra,es quickly or in bursts, getting the faster card is beneficial. If you’re using just as an overflow or shooting most single shots or very short bursts you can get away using the slower cards. Whether a specific card is good, I recommend reading through the reviews focusing on reliability and whether if actual speed meets advertised speeds, primarily V##. You will find the V90 cards are generally same price or more than cfe B cards.

 

[Mimi76]

With SD cards pay attention to the V##. This is the guaranteed sustained write speed. A V60 rated card is guaranteed to write at 60MB/s. A V90 card at 90MB/s. The Up to speeds advertised are a theoretical maximum and usually for a very short burst. If you plan to shoot many fra,es quickly or in bursts, getting the faster card is beneficial. If you’re using just as an overflow or shooting most single shots or very short bursts you can get away using the slower cards. Whether a specific card is good, I recommend reading through the reviews focusing on reliability and whether if actual speed meets advertised speeds, primarily V##. You will find the V90 cards are generally same price or more than cfe B cards.

Ah ok, I didn't know I never had uhcii . I'm learning . thank you for this information.

Sorry One more question :
I'm going to buy a lens. I take the pictures of the birds and animals. I can't decide whether to go for 100-400 or 180-600mm? At the moment I have 200-500mm. Could you tell me please which is better for wildlife? thank you so much.

 

[abc123brian]

Ah ok, I didn't know I never had uhcii . I'm learning . thank you for this information.

Sorry One more question :
I'm going to buy a lens. I take the pictures of the birds and animals. I can't decide whether to go for 100-400 or 180-600mm? At the moment I have 200-500mm. Could you tell me please which is better for wildlife? thank you so much.

They are both very good lenses but generally you wasn’t more reach so the 180-600 will be more versatile. It would be a good lens to replace your 200-500.

 

[Mimi76]

They are both very good lenses but generally you wasn’t more reach so the 180-600 will be more versatile. It would be a good lens to replace your 200-500.

Ok thank you so much for your opinion. I will sell my 200-500 . I will buy 180-600mm. I don’t know if it’s worth keeping 200-500mm

 

[ccirelli]

SanDisk SD's are ok. DO NOT buy their CFE-B cards (IMO / based on my research & experience). Or Lexar. At this point I only use Delkin Black or ProGrade Cobalt cards, CFE-B and SD (and one micro SD for my Zf).

And yes you can use an SD card without a CFE-B, but you'll really want the CFE-B for a few good reasons.

Probably a redundant reply, coming in late to this discussion

 

[Mimi76]

SanDisk SD's are ok. DO NOT buy their CFE-B cards (IMO / based on my research & experience). Or Lexar. At this point I only use Delkin Black or ProGrade Cobalt cards, CFE-B and SD (and one micro SD for my Zf).

And yes you can use an SD card without a CFE-B, but you'll really want the CFE-B for a few good reasons.

Probably a redundant reply, coming in late to this discussion

thank you for your tip. what do you think about this Lexar Professional 2000x 128GB SDXC UHS-II Card, Up To 300MB/s Read. could you tell me please thank you. I bought cfe b

 

[Mike111]

You can shoot with only a SDXC card, but why spend the money on a z8 and not invest in a CF type B? And I would get something at least 200 GB.

I agree with all the comments. You want to purchase cards that support the camera.
And you don’t want to be out in the field and have your only card fail.
I am on a 20 day cruise and either my 2nd slot or second card failed. If I didn’t have 2 cards I would have a worthless camera.

 

[Mimi76]

You haven't given us any idea of how advanced you are as a photographer, and how and what you shoot besides telling us that you shoot birds and animals. So we have to guess as to what you shoot, and how.

1. If you're coming from a 20 MP D7500, then the 46 MP files generated by the Z8 are 60% larger in terms of how much storage space they take up on a memory card or disk drive.
2. Birds and animals often move, and sometimes they move fast. Think, for instance, shooting a bird while it's in flight, or shooting a sequence of an osprey diving into the water for a fish. The best way to get at least a few decent images under such conditions is to shoot in burst mode. Steve, in the guidance he posts on Backcountry Gallery (BCG), advises to shoot the maximum frame rate when doing bursts. On the Z8 that is 20 FPS (20 frames per second) in RAW. If you do JPEG, the frame rate can be even higher. Depending on the scenario you may not get all the images in a burst perfectly sharp - the camera may miss focus on a few frames, and that is why you want to shoot a burst to improve your chances of getting that real keeper.
3. The write speed to SD cards is slower than the write speed to a fast Cf Express card. This means the bottleneck caused by a slower SD card will fill the camera buffer faster, and that then slows down the camera's frame rate. You can shoot bursts for longer on a fast CF Express card than on an SD card before the buffer fills and slows down your burst rate.
4. A day of hectic shooting in burst mode with a Z8 will at some stage fill a 64GB memory card and force you to swap out the card in camera with a fresh one. And it's during the swap that you may miss the shot of a lifetime.

It's for the above reasons that it just makes sense to use fast CF Express cards with more storage capacity as your primary storage on the Z8. Also, being built more robust and in stronger housings, the CF Express cards will be able to handle more abuse without failing. On the Z8 I wouldn't consider anything smaller than 128 GB. My smallest CF Express is a 150 GB card, and I have another 325GB and one 512GB card.

Hello Rassie,

I'm sorry to disturb you again. I don't want to post new one. I wanted to transfer from a card Extreme Pro UHS-II to my Mac. On my camera z8 setting I set on Overflow but on my mac there is empty . Is it normal or not? cf express is fine but slot 2 sd empty. What can I do? could you help me please. I don't know how it works. thank you very much

 

[EricKlees]

The SD cards are not fast enough for 8k and some 4k options. You will need to try them with whatever you want to do video in.

But the term "crippled " some have used to describe using SD cards is accurate. Any type of burst shootng will give a very shallow buffer 30 frames or less. So the SD card should be used as backup or for things like landscape, portraits or even macro. J other words, single frame shooting generally.

It's the equivalent of buying a Lamborghini or McLaren and putting donut tires on it.

You should buy a CF Express Type B card if you plan to do any higher quality video and any action shooting. I would stay clear is SanDisk and Lexar cards as they run almost double the temps of better cards helping with the heat issues is the Z8

 

[ricardo00]

Hello Rassie,

I'm sorry to disturb you again. I don't want to post new one. I wanted to transfer from a card Extreme Pro UHS-II to my Mac. On my camera z8 setting I set on Overflow but on my mac there is empty . Is it normal or not? cf express is fine but slot 2 sd empty. What can I do? could you help me please. I don't know how it works. thank you very much

Not Rassie, but can you clarify whether you had two cards in your camera when you took pictures? Are both empty? If your second card is set on overflow, the first card would be filled first. So unless you filled the first card, all your pictures should be on it. If you only had the one card in your camera, then the pics should be on the Extreme Pro UHS-II card. Can you see them in your camera? If so, try transferring the pics directly from the camera to your computer.

 

[Mimi76]

Not Rassie, but can you clarify whether you had two cards in your camera when you took pictures? Are both empty? If your second card is set on overflow, the first card would be filled first. So unless you filled the first card, all your pictures should be on it. If you only had the one card in your camera, then the pics should be on the Extreme Pro UHS-II card. Can you see them in your camera? If so, try transferring the pics directly from the camera to your computer.

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hello, thank you for your reply.
cf express is fine I can see the picture in raw in my iMac computer.
but SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO SDXC card up to 300 MB/s UHS-II Class 10 U3 V90 is empty when i transfer to imac. I set on Overflow on my camera.

 

[ricardo00]

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hello, thank you for your reply.
cf express is fine I can see the picture in raw in my iMac computer.
but SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO SDXC card up to 300 MB/s UHS-II Class 10 U3 V90 is empty when i transfer to imac. I set on Overflow on my camera.

Yes, because the camera will only put pics into the Extreme Pros SDXC card after your primary card is full since you set it on overflow. The only way to have pics put on both cards is to set it to back-up. But then the camera will slow down the picture taking to the slower card. So your camera is functioning as it should on the settings you have.

 

[Cameron T]

So if nothing went to the second, that's working as intended. I'd recommend reading the manual to understand some of the options.

 

[Mimi76]

Ah ok I didn’t know. Now I understand how it works . Thank you so much for your help. This is the first time I've had 2 slots. .