Super fast, very affordable and passed all our tests with flying colours. If you have any questions - just let us know....if you are wondering these are perfect for the brand new Sony A1ii
Just got the Lexar 640GB CF-A Gen 4, because it was the same price as the 512GB Angelbird, and 640GB > 512GB... Never used CF-A before. I saw in another video that using a CF-A reader slows down the read & write speed on PC. They say you have to insert the CF-A into a dummy CF-B card and then insert that into a CF-B reader and that will unlock the full speeds.
"Gen 4 " relates to this card it self. only. It, does not mean USB-C4 . If I'm wrong please correct me here. Or confirm. Others might be confused by this too (matters if usb-c 3 where to be considered bottleneck...)
The card is Gen 4 which is slower than the card readers, USB-C Gen2 2x2 interface which is clearly shown in the video. However, I am not privy to further info of what is inside the reader...probably no one is outside of AB. With that said, my bottleneck is my M1 Mac mini as there are known issues with this gen of Mac and USBC / Thunderbolt cache clearing.
I am a content creator and I want to use a Blackmagic 4K camera, but I am afraid of the autofocus issue. I am also very, very new to the world of cameras and I don’t know what factors to focus on so I don’t spend my money. Is it suitable for me at all or not? Is there an alternative for the same price? I hope. Your answer and thank you for the excellent content, my friend
Hey there, on the topic of the pocket 4k, AF and price point, you pose a very important questions. Everything is solvable with money, the question is how much do you want to spend? The pocket 4k is still by far the best camera for new cinematographers, but it's not the best option if your main requirement is AF. For pure content creation, where you will possibly need to film yourself, you would be better off with a camera from Canon, Sony, Panasonic or even Fuji. All these have solid very useable AF. All can run with the pocket in terms of image quality, and the will pose less of a learning curve. The more important thing to look at is the cost of the lenses. Owning a camera body is one thing, putting good glass on it is another. Fuji has the best quality lenses at the lowest average price. Canon, Panasonic and Sony all have budget lens ranges, that work really well with their systems, but all of them can lock you into a system, except the L-mount. My advice would be, do not buy a new camera. Start by going to your local camera store, try some of them out. Most importantly see which ones fit the shape of your hand. Ergonomics are super important. Once you have and idea of which system you like, find it locally in the used camera market? Most people will ask close to retail, but if your savvy you should be able to get something for less than 50% or retail. This strategy will reduce your outlay, minimise your risk and can always be sold if you don't like it without financial loss. Hope this helps, happy to answer any other questions you have.
Hmmm you should see much faster speeds with a PC than I do with my Mac Mini. Macs have a very well known issue with the USBC/thunderbolt ports and USBC devices, where the Mac will sometimes require a reboot to clear the port. If you dont do that any device will deliver extremely poor results. PCs dont have this problem, but you would need to check it against your motherboard....to many variations for me to store all that knowledge in the grey matter. I believe the newer Asus gaming towers (if buying prebuilt) offer some good motherboards....with so many options its really hard to advise because what may be good for one thing, maynot be for other tasks.
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Super fast, very affordable and passed all our tests with flying colours. If you have any questions - just let us know....if you are wondering these are perfect for the brand new Sony A1ii
Just got the Lexar 640GB CF-A Gen 4, because it was the same price as the 512GB Angelbird, and 640GB > 512GB... Never used CF-A before. I saw in another video that using a CF-A reader slows down the read & write speed on PC. They say you have to insert the CF-A into a dummy CF-B card and then insert that into a CF-B reader and that will unlock the full speeds.
"Gen 4 " relates to this card it self. only.
It, does not mean USB-C4 .
If I'm wrong please correct me here. Or confirm. Others might be confused by this too
(matters if usb-c 3 where to be considered bottleneck...)
The card is Gen 4 which is slower than the card readers, USB-C Gen2 2x2 interface which is clearly shown in the video. However, I am not privy to further info of what is inside the reader...probably no one is outside of AB. With that said, my bottleneck is my M1 Mac mini as there are known issues with this gen of Mac and USBC / Thunderbolt cache clearing.
I am a content creator and I want to use a Blackmagic 4K camera, but I am afraid of the autofocus issue. I am also very, very new to the world of cameras and I don’t know what factors to focus on so I don’t spend my money. Is it suitable for me at all or not? Is there an alternative for the same price? I hope. Your answer and thank you for the excellent content, my friend
Hey there, on the topic of the pocket 4k, AF and price point, you pose a very important questions. Everything is solvable with money, the question is how much do you want to spend? The pocket 4k is still by far the best camera for new cinematographers, but it's not the best option if your main requirement is AF. For pure content creation, where you will possibly need to film yourself, you would be better off with a camera from Canon, Sony, Panasonic or even Fuji. All these have solid very useable AF. All can run with the pocket in terms of image quality, and the will pose less of a learning curve.
The more important thing to look at is the cost of the lenses. Owning a camera body is one thing, putting good glass on it is another. Fuji has the best quality lenses at the lowest average price. Canon, Panasonic and Sony all have budget lens ranges, that work really well with their systems, but all of them can lock you into a system, except the L-mount.
My advice would be, do not buy a new camera. Start by going to your local camera store, try some of them out. Most importantly see which ones fit the shape of your hand. Ergonomics are super important. Once you have and idea of which system you like, find it locally in the used camera market? Most people will ask close to retail, but if your savvy you should be able to get something for less than 50% or retail.
This strategy will reduce your outlay, minimise your risk and can always be sold if you don't like it without financial loss. Hope this helps, happy to answer any other questions you have.
Not faster with PC's that do not have usb-gen-4 (but gen3), right?
Are PC's (recent gamingvtowers) likly/unlikly upgradable in this regard ?
Hmmm you should see much faster speeds with a PC than I do with my Mac Mini. Macs have a very well known issue with the USBC/thunderbolt ports and USBC devices, where the Mac will sometimes require a reboot to clear the port. If you dont do that any device will deliver extremely poor results. PCs dont have this problem, but you would need to check it against your motherboard....to many variations for me to store all that knowledge in the grey matter. I believe the newer Asus gaming towers (if buying prebuilt) offer some good motherboards....with so many options its really hard to advise because what may be good for one thing, maynot be for other tasks.
I'm the original poster of the question : I must say I made a mix up. Gen 4 of the card relates to it self. It, does not mean USB-C4 (!?)
Is the CFa card reader faster than Sony's CFa card reader?
Unfortunately I do not have one to compare.