Sony A7R II - writing to card issue ( it is so slow )

[Jann Lipka]

Using my new A7R II för a HDR panorama shoot that had to be done quickly .
I thought my My Extreme Pro Card 95 MB/s U3
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/824140-REG/SanDisk_SDSDXPA_032G_A75_Extreme_Pro_32_GB.html

is slow but it seems that the faster ( my camera shop stated that I should buy this card despite .....
UHS  II   cards are NOT Supported  in Sony  -
 I have not experienced any  filled buffer issues  like today  in many years ....:
A serious problem for me (  I have A7R and it worked faster )

http://alikgriffin.com/best-sd-memory-card-sony-a7rii
writing speed problem looks to be  within the camera ...
any suggestions / remedies  ?

[biker]

Hi Jann,

you are shooting spherical photos of interiors for Google maps, aren't you? If you are using that automated shooting tripod (don't know how it's called correctly), what's the interval between shots? And as you are mentioning HDR, you're probably shooting RAW (or even RAW+JPEG) in 42.4 MPix!

If the shooting interval is very short (say 1 second), there's enormous data to be saved. Maybe both your camera and your SD are fine but you just need to slow down shooting a bit...?
Those +8 MPix compared to your previous model aren't seemingly a big difference but might be the last bit to fill your camera buffer up.

That's my $0.02.

Greetings to Sweden,
Adam

[BernardLanguillier]

Thanks for the heads up. If confirmed it would unfortunately make the camera unsuitable for pano shooting.

I am a bit surprised nobody else has reported on this this though, your unit may be defective?

Cheers,
Bernard

[Jann Lipka]

This is regular shoot ( Sony A7R 2 is not certified for google work and would be waste of pixels :-)

Yes indeed It works Ok as I go slowly .
My workflow is
" continuos bracket - 3 shots 3 EV apart "

There is some discussions about cameras slow card writing on forums.
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3884320

ad of course the link I posted states quite slow writing speeds around 35 MD/ S.:

in normal ( slow  ) " landscape work " - I didin't think about it  at all.
But for panorama work with  moving clouds - it will give you problems.
You need to plan  - After like 20 images shot in quick sequence - take a coffee.

My camera shop was quick to suggest buying another faster card - the problem is its better speed requires USH II
that is not supported with this Sony - so my card is OK )

Sony has  many UI glitches that are not OK for Pro work ...
You don't  discover those reading reviews made by professional reviewers
but not pro photographers.

[Jann Lipka]

Actually this new review
https://fstoppers.com/editorial/fstoppers-reviews-sony-alpha-a7rii-422mp-full-frame-camera-80386
mentions this issue.

[adrian tyler]

This is regular shoot ( Sony A7R 2 is not certified for google work and would be waste of pixels :-)
Sony has  many UI glitches that are not OK for Pro work ...
You don't  discover those reading reviews made by professional reviewers
but not pro photographers.

hey, i'm a "pro" user, both a7ii a7rii and rx1 and i'd love to know about these glitches that make this camera not ok for me, or hey, maybe i'm not "pro" enough and that makes it just fine ;-)