At the moment I have a Lexar Silver 256 GB CF Express B card in my X2D-100C. I don't like travelling with a single card, as I have had SD cards fail in past years in my various Leica cameras and compliant with Murphy's law, always at the most inconvenient time and location. I am about to go out of the UK for close to 3 months, taking my X2D with me (plus a Leica Q3 and film M7). I was looking at buying either another Lexar Silver 256 GB or maybe the larger 512GB CF card to act as an internal back up to the built in SSD and as an easy way to transfer images to my M2 Mac laptop. I have never liked cable transfers since many years ago when I was using a cable to transfer images to my Mac iBook and a nearby lightning strike, fried the iBook the camera and the SD card. Now looking at the prices of the 256 GB and 512 GB cards, I saw that Lexar offered a more expensive alternative of their Gold series CF Express cards, with faster write speeds. In that I virtually never use continuous mode on the shutter and very rarely exposure bracketing, is there any advantage conferred by using the substantially more expensive Gold cards? On Amazon UK, £127 for 512GB Silver versus £187 for 512GB Gold. I am guessing that the fast write speeds Gold cards are really aimed at video shooters, where for example a 6K camera dumps down huge amounts of data per second (up to 325 MB/second at 3:1 compression Pro resolution).
Very oddly once you get up to the 1TB size card, the Gold (£321) is cheaper than the Silver (£328) - go figure!
Love to hear folks' opinions.
Wilson
Very oddly once you get up to the 1TB size card, the Gold (£321) is cheaper than the Silver (£328) - go figure!
Love to hear folks' opinions.
Wilson