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#1
General Chat / Re: A7RII - Sony owned everyone again?
August 16, 2015, 11:22:55 PM
Canon should be thankful for MagicLantern right now. If not for ML, there's a strong possibility I'd be jumping ship to Sony and encouraging shooters I work with to do the same.
#2
Sorry for adding one more necropost to this topic but after skimming through it I'm wondering: is anyone actively working on this still?

A few random thoughts:
  • Even if writes remain limited to 167MB/s, the read speeds would be handy if downloading to fast volumes.
  • A Komputerbay 256GB 1066X card is the same price as a [3-5x faster] 512GB Samsung 850 Pro.
  • Since CF and SSD both use NAND flash and wear leveling, would endurance be similar?
  • I'd guess CF cards consume under half a watt of power. A Samsung 850 would be around 2.5w.
One application I'd have for this is events I currently record to standard 1080p24 AVC clips, typically totaling 200GB of footage. Now that I'm comfortable and experienced shooting raw, have adequate workstations to handle the post production, and like to make things difficult, I've been incorporating more and more raw video. Shooting it all raw would require 16+ 256GB cards (or 8+ cards and download/reuse throughout the event, but at times shooting might be disrupted by waiting for 150MB/s downloads—and I fear a mistake in the field might lead to lost data).

Using an external battery pack to power each camera (DR-E6) and SSD (USB to SATA power adapter) would provide a fairly simple all-day shooting solution, once you can connect the card slot and SSD. My PayPal account and I are ready for anyone who can make that connection happen.