Originally posted by jogiba Right, get a K-7 body for $1,300 and look for the cheapest memory card to put your HD videos on.
yes,cause we're all made of money...
i got the K7 on a tax return. it's either hope my tax return can give me a good enough pentax body (which happened), replace my broken K200D with a secondhand Nikon and 1 lens (a far cheaper option than anything from pentax, even secondhand), or stop shooting altogether.
Fact is, if the K7 didn't do video, the Ultra IIs would be fast enough for me. but it does, and i intend to use it. there should be no reason an Ultra II card can't record for more than 4 minutes on 720P when it does absolutely perfectly fine on 1024P.
i'can't spending quarter of the RRP of the K7 (for the record, i got mine for AU1705, but RRP is AU$2000) on the amount of 16GB Extreme IIIs i need. i don't have that kind of money. i also don't intend to skip lunch, dinner or rent to get it either.
Originally posted by jogiba I use a 16GB Sandisk Extreme III 30mb/sec SDHC card with a 30mb/sec Sandisk reader so I could upload my HD videos fast to my Mac.
Mac, 16GB extreme III, high speed reader, see comment about money....
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Originally posted by and I find it quite strange, altho i havent done extended testing, but I have a 8gb SanDisk Ultra II as well as an 8gb SanDisk extreme III, altho normally I use a 32gb SanDisk Ultra II in the camera.
Trying to do a test with max resolution to see how long they would record, neither of them recorded 4gb of data, both were less than 2gb, altho it seemed that the sensor overheated? before it got that far, it had the red temperature symbol on the screen and both camera and card as it came out was very very hot, so I am wondering if there was a temperature cutoff before the the card could be the limiting factor?
see, that's weird. 1024P is perfectly fine for my ultra IIs. it's just 720P. I get the temp warning after a while, but i've had the camera stop recording 720P without showing the temp warning.
Originally posted by and can't see that being the reason. my 8GB extreme III records fine for all res.
same. but i kinda need a little more space than 1 8GB extreme III
Originally posted by and In normal shooting with the 32gb it hasnt been a problem altho I normally take less than 2 mintues anyway
unfortunately, some pirates v ninja fights and para para dances take longer than 5 minutes... crazy cosplayers...
Again, if the K7 didn't do video, i wouldn't be asking this question, and i'm perfectly fine with the slower speed of the Ultra IIs for normal still shooting. I know someone else on another forum that's having the same problems as i'm having.