CFexpress Type B | Z9 8.3K 60FPS RAW Testing | Best Storage In 2022 + Pergear 1TB Card | Matt Irwin

[@petersuvara]

Over a two week shoot, with a Z9. I filled up a 165gb Cobalt Cf express type card 1.5 times, and recharged the battery twice. With my A7siii, the battery ran out after a couple of hours shooting 4K 100fps and 4K 25 fps. This is why I’ll be selling my Sony bodies when the Z6 iii comes out.

[@Joseph-iu6ip]

I’m using Pergear 256GB cards. Thanks to your first review over a year ago. 👍👍

[@Arnie_Liv]

I use prograde has never failed in the Z6 however the plastic housing started to disintegrate so I was worried this may damage my card slot eventually. I contacted prograde & they immediately sent out a new replacement under warranty which also has an improved housing. Fantastic customer service.

[@terryhopkins8059]

Hello Matt... I just recently got a Nikon Z8 .. Yepee! My thinking is to shoot photos to a fast CFExpress card and video to the SD card slot. At the moment I don't plan to shoot 8K video, maybe in the future. But I do plan to shoot 4K-24fps and 4K-120fps. Should I only be shooting photos and video to the CFExpress, or I'm thinking keep photos and video separate and only shoot video to SD card. What are your thoughts on this...? Thanks, Terry

[@roberttrometter5788]

Angelbird 4tb CFEXPRESS type B. Like to know if this chip can work in Nikon Z9?

[@gavriel_adi]

I have been a Nikon user for years, but as soon as you entered the world of Mirrorless, my user experience and that of thousands of other people in my Midna decreased, and I would very much like you to take a look to see how many of our problems are very disturbing, and if you can fix them as soon as possible, thank you. I have some questions for you and I would appreciate a fair answer from you, as your customer it is my right to know why.. 1. Why is it not possible in any Nikon camera to record video on 2 cards at the same time? 2. Why do Nikon cameras lose themselves as soon as I try to shoot in complete darkness - because the focus does not find itself? 3. Why is it only possible to record internal 10-bit quality video on the flagship camera, while the other companies allow it also on much cheaper cameras? 4. Why don't you release a compatible flash for your mirrorless cameras with a built-in green laser - which will probably improve the focus system of your mirrorless cameras? 5. Why doesn't any of your cameras have a smart hot show, while the other companies have all included this option in their cameras (and it improved the sound quality wonderfully), just reminding that I'm asking for it because even the best microphone in the world that I connect to your cameras will sound like it A toy microphone - and all because of a bad amplifier that causes unexplained background noise? 6. As a company that aspires to enter more strongly into the world of video and cinema, why do you still not have professional video functions in your cameras (such as: anamorphic, test field, customizable aspect ratio, false color, histogram, marker color, RGB histogram, markers screen, bottom scan, vectorscope)? 7. Why doesn't any of your mirrorless cameras include an articulated screen, after all you've always said that you build cameras that are also suitable for content creators - and apparently without an articulated screen it's not relevant (I must point out that the Nikon Z9's screen isn't built comfortably enough either)? 8. Why is every camera you take out always limited in the end to the maximum video recording time, which even in your flagship is 125 minutes and in the Nikon Z6II and Z7II the limit is 30 minutes, what is the sense in this, why do you limit it every time, understand videographers do not like limitations Time - give us unlimited and we don't have to in the highest quality even in 1080P we will be very happy? 9. Why is your maximum flash synchronization speed on mirrorless cameras at 1/200 Second while the norm in the DSLR world up to now has been at least 1/250? 10. Why does connecting the camera to the smartphone take a long time each time, while I bought an extreme camera two days ago for $200 that connects faster, and I mean without connection problems, and by the way, you can control there about every possible setting that exists in the camera, and there are a lot.? 11. Why in cameras that are not Nikon Z9 did you not add the option in the settings that as soon as I turn off the camera the mechanical shutter closes which will protect the sensor from dust? And please, in the next camera, do as in the Nikon Z5 and Nikon Z9 that come with the same cards and not 2 different slots, it just creates a mess. I would appreciate a detailed answer to my question and a full reference, since I will publish these things publicly for everyone - so that photographers know whether you as a company want to improve or you are just looking to restore your relationship with the world of photography. I'm Gabriel Adi, the owner of a photography news site from Israel, and I think you have quite a few things to sort out so that your company can really return to being the best of any other company in all respects, I can give you much more information, but that's only if I see what you're referring to I wrote.. I love you as a company and think that your way is very good compared to any other company, don't get me wrong.

[@gavriel_adi]

All these problems make Nikon cameras irrelevant to me and not to any of the photographers who work like me (at events), and this is a problem that if Nikon does not take matters into its own hands urgently there will be no demand for any of its video cameras.

[@ampmmbe1590]

Some excellent points. I think all the brands have a lot of work to do!!

[@alex.Lukehart]

Yeah. It would be nice if a camera company sold a camera perfect for everyone’s needs. Unfortunately, that’s not possible. Look how far we’ve come in the past decade with cameras though! I’m not sure why we’re complaining. We’re able to make such amazing things right now with such assistance from our tech. We need to stop knit picking our gear and start shooting more.

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

The company I used to work for had that Floppy Disk Sony. I used it on a couple of Job Sites. It took 10 yrs for a SanDisk SD Card to fail. It was replaced by a newer faster version of the Card, by Western Digital, which owns SanDisk How Hot is that poor Sensor getting, and how thoroughly is it welding dust permanently to itself? One of my Concerns is how how many hours of constant use, Video or even just because the Sensor is on anytime the Camera is turned on, before the Sensor needs replacement? Nikon is finally trying to reestablish itself where was in the 70s and early 80s, as the Camera of Professional Photographers, which it lost in the early 90s, simply because of it not putting the Focus Motor in the Lens from the Get Go. I got my SanDisk 128GB CFE 2 carb when I got my D850. I still have it, the card, not the 850.

[@snasayed]

Hi Mat. I watch a lot of your videos. amazing work. I see you you use some kind of UV filters on all your lenses that you review. is it just to protect that expensive glass or is there another purpose. generally these filters limit the shear quality of these lenses. ( I am typing this while watching one of your other videos on the TV)

[@ibizecom]

Wish you would leave a link to the product, thanks

[@ytr8989]

I have Scandisk SD cards that are over 10 years old and they still in the cameras.

[@johnhjic2]

Hello Matt, In my Z9 I am using Belkin Black, they work very well for mr. Keep well, keep safe and enjoy life.

[@christhomas5846]

Just had my first day of cricket coverage with my Z9 and just this week I received my 2 x 256GB CFE-B cards from pergear. Glad I got them as even with trying to limit my shooting I still racked up just over 6100 images across the day!! May have to seriously consider getting some 512GB cards as well.......

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Epic shooting sir. 😀

[@Granfoss]

I use two Delkin Black 150Gb cards. Super happy. 😊

[@josephsworkshop75]

Hi Matt, Will you release a separate video of the 25 minute raw recording you shot? 😀 CF express type B is a godsend after SD card failures through the years. Its great that prices are continuing to slowly drop with cf express as well. Thanks for the vid and sneak peek of the grip!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Yes 23 min vid. With director’s commentary and deleted scenes, also all the pre-visualisation work we engaged in prior to commencing the production. Oh and the behind the scenes making of. 😀

[@DrNick8002]

I think Pergear CF cards are still not widely available. My experience using Lexar CFB cards...easily heating

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

You can buy direct. I will pop up a link. 😀

[@64BBernard]

I ordered mine from Pergear, but it was delivered by Amazon in Canada, where I live.

[@jimbolic0809]

This video's topic and recent release is a little eerie, LOL! Earlier today, I was looking into memory card differences because I had to get a CFexpress card reader to update my Nikon z7ii firmware, and suddenly you publish this video. HAHA.

[@thomasberner6164]

For the reason of updating the z7ii you simply can use SnapBridge. No card reader necessary.

[@jimbolic0809]

@@thomasberner6164 That's good to know!!!

[@jimbolic0809]

@@thomasberner6164 I really appreciate the information. Thank you.

[@AMGOSUK]

Matt did you buy Betamax ? {or many of the proprietary Sony memory sticks and similar } -- Sony is selling its premium users down the swanny by keeping with Type A. Many CINE shooters would like to access in camera NVMe 2.0 SSD - 4-8TB cards OR be able to off-load live via USB-C. This is only possible where the disc is self powered or power is built into the body (Arri Alexa, and Sony Cine bodies). Well the Hasselblad X2D-100C now has a 1TB card built in AND it is great. I hope other bodies come along with this technology soon. Outside of a few ultra expensive CINE bodies, none write 8k 30/60 RAW 12-bit (or more) uncropped -- except the Z9 -- which does not overheat. Type A cards and SD-cards all fail and overheat. The X2D gets warm but this does not leak into image files. The Z9 only gets warm with certain card types - including the one you used - but writes and writes and writes. YES -- please Nikon make far better use of HE* -- and give us 30fps uncropped RAW in HE* -- then "even I" will use it. Until then Lossless RAW works just fine and there are no bottlenecks/buffer issues when using Delkin Black or ProGrade Cobalt.

[@christophercirrincione4320]

Matt, thanks for another informative video. Just a note - at this tme I don't find the Pergear card you review at either B&H or Adorama in NYC. Amazon US does list it for sale at about $420 USD.

[@KibbitUpIt]

Hey Matt! Love your hard work! Have you thought of trying a Zitay CFB to nvme recorder? I think it's something you might be interested in.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

No, I should. Thank you. 😀

[@novatech2]

Love my Anglebirds CF Express 512 Pro SE,just can't beat the cost and it quality built units that are made in Austria and great customer service..........

[@Strodav]

Per your question. I use Sony Tough 128KB CFExpress type B cards (1700 MB/s R, 1480 MB/s W) on my Z9, D850 and D500 (#1 slots). I don't like to go much over 128K for stills as you end up with too many images on one card. Just makes me a bit nervous.

[@stefannantz]

Hi @Matt, love you videos, I was wondering how many JPG at 30fps can I get in a single burst? Currently I am shooting soccer and 30fps is perfect but with my XQR card I only get ~75 frames. I was wondering if it is worth it to buy a CFxpress card to get more that 2sec (~75frames) per burst.

[@brianglock3099]

Ahhh the days of dv/dvcam tapes, transfer into computer was real time. Looked great. For their DVCam cameras Sony had an accessory card recorder that used CF cards. Worked great on the Z 5u. Then XDCAM came out first to discs then cards.

[@زهيرسلمان]

Does it fit z9 SanDisk 64GB Extreme PRO CFexpress Card Type B Read: 1500MB/s Write: 800MB/s

[@karyleianawildernesscapes]

Hudson (Henry) also just brought up this card & I trust his recommendations for most things Nikon (Z9). I was gonna just buy the Lexar Diamond CFxB 256GB card, but as I get into video, this Pergear makes more sense & they cost roughly the same & 1TB is hard to turn down haha!

[@MadManTnT]

Hey. Could you do a test in the mid day sun? Thank you!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

What climate? 😄

[@MadManTnT]

@@MattIrwinPhotography your country

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

@@MadManTnT Massive country, yesterday it was 30 degrees and tomorrow it will be 19 ...

[@MadManTnT]

@@MattIrwinPhotography anything above 32 degrees Celsius would be great.

[@zZola_Photography]

I have been a Lexar Pro fan since my D200's CF cards back in 2006 and ran Lexar Pro exclusively up through my z6ii but with the z9 due to the heat issue on the Lexar cards(which was never a big issue before for me due to lower frame rates) I went with a matched pair of Prograde Cobalt 325gb cards. I have been looking for a larger card to run in slot 2 for video but dont like the mixed reviews I hear about Angelbird build quality. These pergear ultras sounds like the correct choice.

[@ImmanuelAfolabi]

@matt Irvin Mant thanks for this content. I'm in the verge of buying the Z9 and of course I've been researching on the best 2 Tb card for the camera, especially for 8k video. Now the Delkin has higher WRITE and SPEED compared to thee product of your video. Now, what would I be doing wrong if I should go for the Delkin? Hope to read from you

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

You should choose what you feel comfortable with. I have not personally used the Delkin, but I hear they are a great brand :) So it should be a good choice. Cheers Matt

[@ImmanuelAfolabi]

@@MattIrwinPhotography Then the Pergear image on Amazon seems to come with what looks like a card reader. Is this real? If YES, it may just make me go for it, as I've read some reports that some memory cards excellent upgrades are dependent on memory card readers. Deep apologies for my troubles

[@ImmanuelAfolabi]

@@MattIrwinPhotography Then the Pergear image on Amazon seems to come with what looks like a card reader. Is this real? If YES, it may just make me go for it, as I've read some reports that some memory cards excellent upgrades are dependent on memory card readers. Deep apologies for my troubles

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

@@ImmanuelAfolabi Yes if you spend the extra, which I think is around $20 USD, there is a card reader option, you just have to make sure you select it :) Cheers matt

[@jpdj2715]

The "grip" is also compatible with Z 6ii and Z 7ii, Nikon report. They say that you can change "focal length" from the grip. Which I doubt. Being able to do so would require an electric motor for "zoom". While each lens has a motor or motors for focusing (because AF) but so far none of them could be zoomed electrically. I cannot imagine that such motors have been hidden in those lenses all this time. If my suspicion is true, then the zooming is done digitally and the zoom range will be limited by the video resolution you had chosen, on the tele end and by the camera's resolution on the wide end. This then also means that no focal length is changed. So this needs "serious" investigation. As an aside, this means that a Z 6ii and Z 7ii should be able to do digital zoom. Finally real work for the second Expeed processor - the zooming must be done in real time, between the sensor and the memory card. Imagine that such processing power is available to low light AF with stills. That said, what illumination level - ISO, exposure time, aperture - would mark "low light"?

[@duncanwallace7760]

I got a couple of fast 128gb lexar cards when I bought my camera, figuring in a few years the speeds and sizes would increase a lot, then I could get larger ones. So far with stills, I've not had any buffering issues, or come close to running out of space on even one of the cards. They might be all I need, unless I start getting into video!

[@cavedroid]

My go-to has been the ProGrade Cobalt cards which are in line with Pergear and Delkin Black as far as speed goes. I recently got a 1TB Angelbird card mainly for the price-to-storage space ratio for when I'm doing video. So far, all is well but I might have to compare the specs of the Pergear 2TB as it might be the next card purchase I make. Thanks for yet another great video.

[@ImmanuelAfolabi]

Hi, Someone on Amazon reported he had a bad experience with Angelbird for his video function on Nikon Z9

[@jpdj2715]

My favorite card for top performance - Delkin Black. This company politely, transparently, answered my in-depth questions about the qualities of their product. For -20C temperature, AFAIK, the only one supporting that, Sony Tough G series. I don't like a company that needs to be taken to court in a class-action case for a product not being good enough (Sony) and generally, for that reason, avoid this brand. However, as Nikon originally tested their Z cameras with this brand's cards, and e.g. camera start-up times were fastest, I could not avoid them at the time. Those protocol issues between host device and card are over and Delkin Black is the way to go. Why buy more expensive? See my response below to this comment.

[@jpdj2715]

That's a very in-depth video, Matt. My shortlist for comparing cards is (1) Sustained write speed, not necessarily from video write (2) TBW - how many rewrites can a memory cell in the card survive? (3) Capacity (4) Temperature operating range - the cold side is more important (5) Data integrity protection When we compare the speed of cards, we have to be aware that (6) Some card series have higher performance at higher capacity, so comparing one 64GB card with a 512GB card from another brand is not "fair" (7) IOPS. More is better. But "video" may require less than continuous stills. So, deeper is possible. And that may be relevant to all of us. Manufacturers are not transparent about what we get for our money in all these respects. That's how - in economic theory - the supply side tries to become a monopolist. Notes (1) Shooting raw stills continuously at the highest resolution will be a bigger challenge to the card's sustained performance than the camera's highest video resolution - generally. To which card can we shoot stills continuously without the card's extremely fast buffer memory getting saturated (after which it will slow down)? Now try to shoot to both cards ... (2) Not published for these cards, but often available after some searching, TBW are total bytes written. (The T is not for "tera" and manufacturer has to specify the "unit" with the TBW. A 1TB card with a TBW of 300 TB can survive 300 complete rewrites. Note that a deep format to the individual cell level - as Nikon offers in a recent firmware version - actually may add a rewrite iteration, thus "burning" through a card faster.) Every time we write to a card, this wears memory cells down. How many times these cells can sustain that is a bigger factor in price per GB than speed. For comparison in the SSD domain: a Samsung EVO would sustain 300 cell rewrites (this is administered at block level) and a same capacity Samsung PRO would sustain 3,000 rewrites - last time I checked. When a block in a card has been used that amount of time, the card's "wear leveling" process marks it "bad" and it is no longer available. In a video house that fills a "300 times" card every day, that card is worn within a year. Make that once a week, and the card will last 5 years, easily. Applications exist that can look into a card's "secret" memory where the administration of its "wear leveling" is kept. This then becomes a "card health" indication. Another thing is to verify that a card's usable storage capacity has (not) beceom less). As soon as the card starts reporting less usable capacity, it will increasingly faster wear out. (3) Cards have "visible" = "usable" capacity, but the card's wear leveling process may have more capacity available as a way to provide more rewrite cycles - for example with cheaper memory cells, or to get more rewrite cycles for enterprise / data-center class storage. This extra capacity is called "overprovisioning" in the storage industry. As most memory cards are used by amateurs and these have few solid-state storage lifetime problems, card manufacturers are bringing part of the over-provisioned capacity to the surface (through a firmware change) and ask more money for the same card "because it has more capacity". This is how we get capacities outside the 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1TB, etc. number series. A card that was sold as 128GB (with cheap memory cells and 64GB over-provisioned - for 192GB total) thus may become 160GB (with the same cheap memory cells and 32GB over-provisioned - for 192GB total), but now at a slightly higher price. (4) All these cards can generally handle pretty high temperatures. Where they may struggle is in the cold. Most cards are guaranteed down to -10C (14F), only a few down to -20C (-4F). I have not seen any influencer test this, nor test a camera's low temperature performance - albeit I have seen a video by Morten Hilmer, shooting musk oxen in winter cold Norway, at -20C (-4F). He keeps his camera in the snow, outside, to prevent condensation from bringing it into a warm tent, plus to prevent "thermals" that cause optical distortion from motion in the air (e.g. when a super telephoto lens's huge lens hood is warmer than the surrounding air, it this causes thermals in the space in the lens hood). His memory cards have performed well, as did his Nikon Z cameras and Z lenses. Whatever was formally guaranteed - it worked. (5) Archaeologists may find clay and stone tablets with cuneiform inscriptions and still can read a boy's school report card informing his parents that his language performance is good but his math leaves something to be desired. Say, 5,000 years old and perfectly readable for those who understand the language. Magnetic storage layers in floppy or hard disks have "spontaneous bit flips". Imagine your bank balance being CURRENCY 1,048,576 - (2^20) - in a 32 bit number representation that would be 00000000,00001000,00000000,00000000. Now imagine the 1 "flips" and the balance becomes 00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000. Zero - 0 - in decimal notation. It seems that consistent storage of data with maintained data integrity has an inverse relation with the age of the invention. Papyrus, paint and ink last less good than stone or clay. Parchment (animal hide) may be better than papyrus paper. Etc. Not so "idiot" to have a laser disc type of storage in a video camera, right? But, bits engraved into plastic with a tiny laser are not as "eternal" as carved into stone. One example to deal with the integrity problem is RAID 5 where data is stored twice (on separate stores/disks) but one time in bare format and the second time in a data quality check format. If one of these has a bit-flip, the consistency between them is gone and in enterprise storage arrays (and my RAID implementation in my workstation at home) the consistency between the two copies is inspected frequently (e.g. daily). This process is called data scrubbing in enterprise / data center storage management. Solid state memory can store data less long with integrity maintained. To mitigate that risk, some cards have data integrity protection implemented. This however uses memory and that is hidden from the capacity on the label like overprovisioning mentioned above. If we ask a team of electrical engineers and quantum physicists how long data on a memory card can be trusted when the card is taken off power - then they probably say "between 7 and 7,000 hours". (6) Cards have a small capacity of a very fast memory type as I/O buffer (cf. static RAM) and this is where data lands from the host device. The card's controller, executing firmware at that and keeping track of what it does in secret memory, then moves the data from there into the storage "media". The storage media have a slower speed, though and this is what we want to know as "sustained speed". Your 6 Gbps (750 MB/s) magnetic platter hard drive may have a "media speed" of only 50 MB/s. A storage protocol was devised to deal with that: RAID 0, where data is "striped" across more than one drive. In theory, this makes it possible to completely hide the slow media speed from the host device and its user, by having enough embers in a stripe set. In the last couple years, from performance tests, we have seen some card series performing faster and faster with higher and higher capacities. For example SanDisk Extreme Pro. This leads to the hypothesis that these cards implement the higher capacity as a RAID 0 set of smaller capacity. (7) Writing a constant bit stream to a card is one thing, but writing a load of small files to a card is a different thing altogether. Because each separate file needs overhead conversation (protocol), a file name into a file allocation table, a start location with that entry and a size documenting the end of the file. That overhead has I/O protocol steps associated and this has its own performance number: IOPS I/Os per second. Relative to the bit stream of actual content data, the IOPS associated with these meta-data can get sky high and when this exceeds the IOPS of your storage then this results in slow down of I/O. IOPS are related to the quality of the card's controller, firmware (version) therein, etc. The moral of this is - aside - that testing a camera's raw frame buffer may be throttled by a memory card rather than the camera's buffer and we have to be careful in drawing conclusions from what we test.

[@mitchellmysliwiecphotography]

mini-dv! recorded all my children's activities through their 2nd grade...

[@waveland]

Hey Matt. Hope all is well in your world. I picked up my Z9 a few weeks before this ultra line from Pergear came out, so I have been shooting with the AngelBird SE 512 Gb cards, which so far have worked without a hitch. Going forward however, I will give Pergear a serious look, especially if I start shooting much video on the 9. And speaking of moving images, I have come to think of video in the Z9 as a sort of bolted on engineering proof of concept. Until they isolate the menus and the settings banks into separate stills and videos silos, and get around to adding some video basics such as a complete slate of fps settings (23.98 and 29.97 are a must), shutter angle settings, and external BRAW like we have on the 7ii, it’s hard to take the video too seriously when compared to other cameras. Let’s put it this way, I don’t see the Z9 displacing any of my Blackmagic cameras any time soon. At the moment it’s a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster, powerful in some respects, and incredibly naive and incomplete in others. And let’s get serious about N-RAW for a moment. Until the lawsuits are settled with Red, Z9 internal compressed RAW recording is a tease. It could be taken away by injunction at any time, with the stroke of a judge’s pen. Until we know the outcome, N-RAW is something to toy with now and then, but there’s no sense building a daily professional workflow around a file format that could be so easily invalidated.

[@acronymphotography]

Like some of the others, the Angelbird 512gb is fast enough for me and at £172 is acceptable. I’ve got the faster 160gb but happily confetti throwing at weddings (the only time I hold the shutter button down on the Z9) don’t need it. Sounds like a pile of 1tb cards are essential for anyone shooting 8K in camera, says Simon, who’s never pressed the video button on his z9. 🤦🏼

[@EugeneMaynard]

👍🏾🙏🏾

[@shadyninja1]

1TB CF express card is like putting all your eggs in one basket.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

If you feel that way go two cards if you can. 😀 or you can get the smaller fast versions.

[@renestaempfli1071]

I have been using my A1 for 1.5 Years shooting to 2x CFExpress 160GB cards. For my use it's sufficient, as I don't shoot videos. Yes, the cost of type a cards is to high. As for speed, type a is enough for this camera. If you need 8k footage for any length of time, type b would be a better option. The cinematographers I know, all shoot 4k only on ARRI, Venice FX ... etc. I have not seen a fully rigged Z9 used yet.

[@petersuvara]

Nikon are doing a big push into video! It’s great to see. I’m moving all my video gear to Nikon once the Z6 iii comes out. Mainly shoot in 4K 25p, so the better AF is the big thing for me.

[@renestaempfli1071]

@@petersuvara I wish them good luck. So far Nikon is a knowbody in video production systems. They may produce some additional cameras in the semi professional space. But they have no vertical integration suitable for video and movie production like SONY.

[@petersuvara]

@@renestaempfli1071 what do you mean by vertical integration? I find using Nikon + Resolve far easier than Sony + Adobe Premiere to be honest. Do you mean like Timecode/Casting synchronisation like you would for broadcast?

[@renestaempfli1071]

@@petersuvara Vertical integration means a complete range of professional audio and imaging products for production, such as professional cameras, broadcast and production equipment, professional displays, projectors, archiving and content management systems, movie studios. Just looking at the cameras alone, SONY provides already a huge amount of professional cameras, far more than any camera company. This is a tough environment for Nikon. They can be a niche player, but I doubt, they will ever be a major player in this market space.

[@petar3683]

Expeed 7 is surely the most powerful processor, but they need some serious work on their AI since the focusing is still not as good as Canon and Sony, even with that hell of a processor...

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

How do you know Peter?

[@petar3683]

@@MattIrwinPhotography because I switch systems a lot, it's Petar btw

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Using the Z9 now Petar?

[@petar3683]

@@MattIrwinPhotography yes, since the day 1, but in the meantime I also used r3 and a1

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

@@petar3683 and can you explain what FW 3.0 lacks vs R3 and A1 in AF? What are you shooting and with which lenses?

[@kevinastley2562]

I have both the Sony A1 and the Z9. I find the A1 slightly better and quite away better with subject tracking. I've also been lucky enough to test the alpha rV and this beats them both for tracking and image quality but left on the shelf with shutter speeds

[@Anders_vB]

Hi Matt, I think you have to learn something here. Unfortunately I must say there are much more superior CF Express type B cards. Pergear doesn’t perform 8K video because it doesn’t read all the time at the fastest speed. When you judge memory cards you have to look for what the highest MINIMUM speed is because that’s the bottle neck weakest link! Here you may read some real facts about read and write speed of CF Express Cards type2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnPSdq2id7aLhKc I myself use Angelbird SX 160 Gb, superior to the cards you recommend.

[@gavriel_adi]

Everything you're talking about is bullshit about Nikon being the leader in video because: In any Nikon camera, including the Z9, it is not possible to shoot video on 2 memory cards at the same time, which means if I shoot an event with it like a wedding and at the end of the event the memory card doesn't work, I lost an entire event.!!! As far as I'm concerned, if Nikon doesn't fix it, they're not relevant at all in the game of the video world.

[@musicfind4020]

The art of deflection is strong in you 🤡 your comment is not the topic of this vid, what is the topic?…these cards are reliable and fast 😮

[@cinemaoffline]

Test without Angelbird 🫣 sorry NO

[@Anders_vB]

Angelbird make super fast memory cards!