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Used for: 1–3 months
VPG400 means the FX3 never drops a clip mid record
You need a Type A reader and they are expensive on their own
Shooting 4K120 on an FX3 where the camera demands a sustained rate that ordinary Type A cards cannot hold, and this one has never once stopped a take. Longest continuous roll so far was 42 minutes and it did not flinch. The cost you do not see coming is on the desk. Type A readers are their own purchase and a cheap one will bottleneck you at USB speeds nowhere near what the card can do, so budget for a decent one or the offload will be the slow part of your day.
Used for: 6–12 months
Sustained write holds up on long 4K120 takes
Weddings mean recording until the card fills rather than in neat takes, and the buffer indicator on the A1 has never gone red with this in the slot. Offloads at around 1400MB/s on a proper reader, so a full card is a coffee rather than a lunch break.
Used for: Less than a month
Offload speed on a Thunderbolt reader is genuinely fast
Only worth it if your camera takes Type A
A full 640GB card copies across in about eight minutes on the desk, which changes how an evening after a shoot goes
Used for: 3–6 months
Never a dropped frame
Does what a cinema card should do. Faultless
Used for: Less than a month
Swapped from SD to Type A for the first time and the difference on burst shooting is not subtle. The A1 will now hold 30 frames a second until I let go of the button, where the SD card would stall after a couple of seconds and leave the buffer crawling.
Used for: 6–12 months
Survived a shoot in driving rain and a drop onto gravel
So small that it vanishes in a jacket pocket
Documentary work means the kit gets treated badly and this card has been soaked, dropped and left in a hot van without a single read error. The plastic shell looks scuffed and does not care. My only gripe is the size. It is barely bigger than an SD card and a good deal easier to lose, so a proper case matters more than it used to.
Used for: More than a year
Two years of professional use and it still tests at full speed
Bought as the A camera card and it has been in constant rotation for two years since, thousands of clips, dozens of full format cycles. Ran a fresh benchmark on it recently out of curiosity, expecting the usual slow decline, and it came back within a few percent of the numbers it did when new. Sustained write still holds above 1300MB/s on a long file. That is the thing you are actually buying at this price, not the headline figure on the packet.
Used for: 6–12 months
Speeds are genuine when the card is cool
Three stars because sustained write drops noticeably once the card heats up in a small body, from around 1400 to nearer 900 on a hot day, which on a long take is the difference that matters.
Used for: 6–12 months
Gets almost too hot to hold after a long take
Pull it straight after a 30 minute roll and you will want a moment first
Used for: More than a year
Not one corrupt clip
Hundreds of hours of footage through it and nothing lost
Used for: Less than a month
Instantly recognised by the A7S III
Tiny enough to lose
No format needed, camera saw it and started recording