Pay 50% Less For Your Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Storage!

One of the crticisms of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera has been the high cost of the fast UHS-I SDXC cards required to record the camera's 233mbps ProRes codec.
Blackmagic's recommended cards, from Sandisk and Delkin, are both expensive.  As of this post, the Sandisk 64GB Extreme Pro is $132.37 and the Delkin 64GB Elite is $131.51.

64GB would be a lot of memory for any other camera.  But it only gives you 37 minutes of recording time with the BMPC.

Fortunately, there is another option, which will give you over an hour of recording time.  Adata UHS-I cards record at the same advertised 45MBps write speed as the Delkin, and you can get a 128GB Adata Premier Pro SDXC card for $125.

I went out and shot with the 64GB version of this card today, and had no issues.  The camera recognized the card and there were no dropped frames.

Twice the storage for less money, not a bad deal.

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Just Bought a Fast SDXC Card for my Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Since the cameras seem to be really shipping (!), it is time to buy a memory card.  After all these months of waiting, it would be pretty frustrating to have the camera waiting on my doorstep when I get back from Spaceport America next week - with no memory card to put in it.

Looking at this list of fast cards on blackmagicuser.net, I couldn't bring myself to spring for a 95MB/s $133 Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB - so I bought an ADATA 64GB (95MB/s read, 45MB/s write) for $56 (on sale at Amazon) instead.  ADATA, an established DRAM and NAND flash memory manufacturer from Taiwan, just entered the high speed SD card market a few months ago, so their prices are a little lower than Sandisk's.  On sale, this card is a very good deal.

At 45MB/s write, the ADATA will be good enough for ProRes, but won't cut it for CinemaDNG RAW. When Blackmagic issues the RAW firmware update, I'll buy a faster card, but until then, this will do.