Human Error???

"These forums never cease to amaze me. People are doing their life's work, yet they pinch pennies here and there. What is the cheapest mic? What is the cheapest card? What is the cheapest camera? For the life of me, I cannot understand all of this penny pinching when it comes to one's vocation & career. "

This forum has a wealth of knowledgeable and talented people helping others every day.

When the MxR/SDHC alternative solution became available my first thought was why wouldn't it work, and it didn't cost much to try a few so I did, and with hours of testing I found that human error was a lot easier to make. I bet it would be a good practice to wait 20 seconds after the recording for the green light to come on then power down the camera before removing the adapter/SDHC card similar to the RED for reloads.

The SxS card uses the Express bus technology and Sony opened the door to USB recording technology when they released an external hard drive accessory and that was when curious people began this process. The EX camera records to the SxS cards much faster than the SDHC cards and what many people still don't realize is that the camera is still recording to these SDHC cards for up to 10 seconds after they have pushed the stop button and if they pull the card out to soon it will destroy all the data on the card. No thinking required with SxS cards, much higher percentage of human error possible with SDHC cards, the tally light goes off and the slot record light is still Red for up to 10 seconds.

I'm sure this isn't everyones issue but people don't search back to find answers and information like they should, most people jump right on and ask the same questions over and over again.

I rely on my own testing and from the other leaders here to find solutions from first hand experiences. I think many people try things because of products like the EX1 CAMERA that delivers an unbelievable HD broadcast quality image for such an affordable price. I think many believe the market is being fouled and misguided.
My point is yes "what is the cheapest product" that equals the so called standard. The standard changed because it is easier to sell $8000 cameras with $800 SxS cards than $40,000 cameras (without a lens,). But this makes people curious again because this same Sony mpeg-2 encoder is now licensed to JVC and used inside their new cameras and they don't require these expensive SxS cards to record the same mpeg-2 35Mbps file type, they are designed with SDHC cards and record the same file that has a slightly different file wrapper because Sony would never pay to license the use of Quicktime from Apple.

I agree about penny pinching on what SDHC card to purchase now that I know from my own experience to only trust the major brands. In fact if I needed anymore cards I would only buy Transcend at this point.

The message from this board has always been it is possible to use the MxR/SDHC alternative but read up and know what you are getting into and TEST TEST TEST to feel comfortable.



Good Luck
Michael Palmer