Photos on Angelbird AV Pro SX 160GB vs SE 512GB

[Tomek666]

So I ended up getting and X-H2 over the X-T5 because of a good deal that came up. 

Needing to buy a card, I needed to figure out,  what is the real impact of a card's speed for photos?

 

In particular, I'm going to test how shooting at 15 FPS will differ between:

Angelbird - AV PRO CFexpress B SE - 512 GB and Angelbird AV PRO CFexpress SX - 160 GB.

How many shots can I get off before buffer fills, and how long does it take for the buffer to clear? 

 

MOP: X-H2 Factory rest, card formated, no lens (body cap on), performance boost on,

manual exposure, mechanical SS @ 1/8000, IS off, Shoting RAW Compressed Lossless with only one card in. Held shutter release till buffer filled, and used stop watch to see how long for buffer to clear. Subtracted two frames from total taken as that's how long it takes me to release the trigger once the buffer is full. Repeat 2x for sanity check.

 

***TEST RESULTS***

 

~~~64GB Lexar Pro SD 150MB/s~~~

75 shots to fill buffer, 36 Seconds to clear it

 

~~~Angelbird AV Pro SX 160GB~~~

251 shots to fill buffer, 5 Seconds to clear it

 

.~~~Angelbird AV Pro SE 512GB~~~

232 shots to fill buffer, 4 Seconds to clear it

 

 

***Conculsion***

 

If burst shooting an X-H2 at 15 FPS is your thing, buy the Anglebird 512GB SE for the same price as the 160GB SX.

 

Below is a shot on X-T2 w/ the Fuji 70-300. I manged to fluke it off with a dead battery by turning the camera off and on again, and squeezing three more shots out (this was the last shot).

 

Ta for now!

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Edited April 26, 2024 by Tomek666
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[anonsailor]

I've made a point to push Angelbird memory products as they are the best performance cards you can get, The sustained write speed is important.

[Tomek666]

Im not partal to any brad, just opted to try these based on apparent price / performance. 

I'm always looking for best bang per buck, hence Fuji I guess - haha

Reliabilty does not concern me, as I always shoot to two cards for pro work (and burst shooting is not a part of that).

Made sense for me to get the cheapest / fastest CF cards for hobby shooting.    

I just got a Sabrent Rocket V60 512GB cheep (as the back-up card).

 

As long as neither of these freeze the camera I hope its a cheep solution for my needs.

(AB AV Pro SE 512Gb and Sabrent Rocket V60 512GB). 

Half a gig of redunat storge for $200USD is something I can live with.

(Especially considering I can bust the hell out of the Anglebird).

Cheers, Tomek