![]() ![]() I have other adapters that use a very brittle plastic and these can break quite easily, but this one appears to be well made. It is mostly metal with plastic end pieces that are made from a nice high quality plastic. It feels as well built as any other adapter on the market. I’d rather switch to SDHC cards than try to do a panic off-load to a backup device mid-shoot, that’s a recipe for disaster!Īnyway… on to the Sonnet SDHC to SxS adapter. You can buy an SDHC card just about anywhere. SDHC cards are cheap and readily available. You never know when you might run out of media or find yourself in a situation where you have to hand over you media to a third party at the end of a shoot. BUT I do carry a couple of adapters and some SD cards in my camera kit for emergencies. So I choose to shoot on SxS whenever possible and I’ve never had a single failure or unexplained footage loss. They are not made to the same standards as SxS cards. They are produced in vast quantities and the quality can be quite variable. ![]() The key point to consider when using an SxS adapter and SD cards is that the media, the SD cards, are consumer media. Then about two years ago Sony openly admitted it was possible to use an adapter in the cameras and released their own adapters (MEAD-SD01 and MEAD-MS01) as well as making some firmware changes that made using adapters more reliable. Following that initial discovery various companies have brought out flush fitting adapters that allow the use of SDHC cards. However the SDHC cards stick out of the end of the generic adapters so you can’t close the doors that cover the card slots in the cameras. I found that it was possible to use an off-the-shelf SD card to express card adapter (the original Kensington Adapter) to record standard frame rates on class 6 SD cards in the EX cameras. So ever since the launch of the XDCAM EX cameras, users including me have been trying to find alternative recording solutions. However as we all know SxS cards are expensive, although a lot cheaper now than they used to be, I remember paying £600 for an 8Gb card only 4 years ago! Now I’m going to lay my cards on the table here and say that I strongly believe that if your going to shoot with an XDCAM EX camera you should be using SxS cards in order to get the best possible reliability. Along with the QIO I was sent a Sonnet SDHC to SxS card adapter to take a look at. I recently reviewed the rather excellent Sonnet QIO I/O device that allows you to very quickly ingest material from SxS cards, P2 cards as well as SD cards to your computer. ![]()
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