I mixed cards in my K-1’s two slots when one of my 64 G cards failed. I temporarily used a 90 Mb/s 64 G in slot one and a 60 Mb/s 32 G card in slot two. I recorded RAW to both cards. No problems. (I always use the second card as a duplicate backup.)
Paul > On May 29, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My questions are partially about relative merit of different cards and partly > about issues, if any, of mixing and matching. > > Context: > K-1 with 2 card slots > Shooting with RAW (DNG) images going to the card in Slot 1, jpeg going to > card in Slot 2. > > Three different generations of SDXC cards: > SanDisk Extreme 90 MB/s > Lexar Professional 633x 95 MB/s > Lexar Professional 1000x 150 MB/s > > In my simple mind, I believe that the three card types, in the order listed, > could be considered Fast, Faster, and Fastest. > > Additional context: > - I don’t shoot video > - I seldom shoot a burst; when I do the setting is Single Shot, but just > triggering the shutter several times in sequence e.g. as a duck flies by. > - When traveling,the jpeg files are downloaded to my iPad. That takes > awhile, but even if card speed has anything to do with it, a five minute vs > ten minute time to download would be of no consequence to me. > - When at home, the RAW/DNG files are downloaded onto an internal drive, > copies to an external drive. I suspect that card speed is not a limiting > factor here, and again a few minutes difference is of no consequence. > > Question: In theory, would I expect to see any difference in the behavior of > K-1-A loaded with the Fast cards vs. K-1-B loaded with the Fastest cards? > E.g., if I do shoot a burst, will the buffer clear faster with a faster card? > > Question: Is there any reason not to mix-and-match? I pretty much always have > cards with the same speed rating in both card slots, but I don’t know if I am > being a bit too compulsive… > And I would guess that if I did mix them, that it would make sense (?) for > the faster card to be placed in the slot where the larger RAW files are being > written. > > Thanks! > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
