Re: EX1 v using tapes on Z7U - which is more practical...

[Shane O'Brien] "The tapes would obviously give me the longest recording time."
No. 32GB card is nearly two hours. You can have two in the camera giving you nearly four straight hours.
With four 32GB cards that 8 hours can cover you for the shoot.

BTW if you're renting I've found renting SxS is very inexpensive (IMHO). You could buy 32GB Transcend and Mx/Hoodman adaptor but I'd want to test the cards before going on a shoot. Since you're renting anyway, renting 32GB SxS is probably a good way to go.

I think the above makes much more sense than tape. You're not going to get a surprise head clog or dropout. If you run out of tape uh oh. Run out of SxS you can dump the card in laptop. I recommend making a back up to optical disk as well. A good laptop can handle DVD-DL but with only 8 GB per disk it'll mean some swapping. Now if only more laptop had Blu-ray disks built in.