Canon 5D mark iv CF card and battery?
Apr 1, 2018 14:38:27 #
I bought two SD>CF adaptors, one for type I and and one for type II. These were for "just in case". In the family we have 8 cameras that will take SD and only two that will take CF so we have a LOT of SD cards. Unless the price is really good or they have a significant speed difference in future I will probably buy only SD cards. I am buying one 64 GB CF for my main #1 card in my 5DIV.
Apr 1, 2018 14:58:01 #
amfoto1
Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
nimster64 wrote:
I just bought a 5d mrk iv to upgrade from my 5d mrk ii. The batts from the 5d mrkii do not work on the mrk iv so my question is what after market battery can I buy that is compatible with the mrk iv. Also what cf card aand sd card is everyone useing. Going to be useing it mainly for photography but want to start useing the video clips along with photos to compliment the photos.
The LP-E6 batteries from your 5DII will work fine in 5DIV. The latter comes with an LP-E6N that's got slightly higher capacity, but otherwise is the same. LP-E6 andLP-E6N are completely interchangeable (I use both in my 5DII, 7D and 7DII... I'm only careful to make sure I use them in pairs, since I use dual battery grips on all my cameras.... LP-E6 with LP-E6, or LP-E6N with LP-E6N. Not sure this is necessary, though.)
I really don't know about 3rd party "clones" of the LP (lithium) series Canon batteries. I have only used OEM batteries in my cameras that have used them.
I DID use a bunch of cheaper 3rd party batteries in older models that used the BP511/512 (NiCad)... but those were just plain batteries, didn't have the "chip" that the newer LP-series use to communicate more fully with the camera. Those worked fine... were at least equal and in some cases seemed better than OEM.
But after Canon switched to the LP-series lithium, I recall that the early 3rd party LP-E6 clones sucked.... And that's why I bought OEM at the time (though they were much more expensive and hard to find initially). Back then... when the 5DII was relatively new (it was the first model to use LP-series batteries, I think)... the 3rd party manufacturers were simply adapting NiCads to fit, you couldn't use the Canon charger with them, plus the 3rd party NiCads didn't have the circuitry to communicate properly with the camera. But that was years ago and I imagine since then the manufacturers switched over to Lithium completely and have worked out most of or all the kinks. Today I don't think it would be a problem to use the cheaper 3rd party LP-E6N equivalents... but I don't know this from experience.
Apr 1, 2018 15:52:35 #
nimster64 wrote:
I just bought a 5d mrk iv to upgrade from my 5d mrk ii. The batts from the 5d mrkii do not work on the mrk iv so my question is what after market battery can I buy that is compatible with the mrk iv. Also what cf card aand sd card is everyone useing. Going to be useing it mainly for photography but want to start useing the video clips along with photos to compliment the photos.
If you plan to shoot 4k video on the 5D4, you MUST have a CF card that is rated 100MB per second or faster. The 5D4 uses about 1MB for each second of 4k video, so I would recommend a 256GB card, or the largest one you can afford.
Apr 1, 2018 16:04:09 #
ThreeCee
Loc: Washington, DC
I also had the 5D mkII and IV. I use LEXAR 128 CF and SD. The SD cards hit the buffer much quicker on the IV so I shoot to CF and backup on SD. I have found Watson batteries are good when new but don’t stay new long. The Canon last a long time and keep working like new longer. In the end the 5D IV is a power hog. If it for pro use I would get the BG-E20 grip and 4 canon 6N batteries for best value.
Apr 1, 2018 17:50:51 #
davidrb wrote:
Batteries from the Mk II will most definitely work... (show quote)
Do you leave your Mk IV GPS on all the time?
Apr 2, 2018 00:59:42 #
Jesu S wrote:
If you plan to shoot 4k video on the 5D4, you MUST have a CF card that is rated 100MB per second or faster. The 5D4 uses about 1MB for each second of 4k video, so I would recommend a 256GB card, or the largest one you can afford.
Very true. The 4K video on the mark IV uses a LOT of space on the memory card. But since you don't need to buy a new battery you can get a fast 256GB card.
Apr 2, 2018 18:10:10 #
thank you all for the replies. I will get canon batts. yes it was a error message so I did not want to proceed. but now that I have read your replies I will go ahead and try it out. and I will get the 32 gb sd and cf cards 160 mbs or the lexar 1000x
Apr 2, 2018 18:13:50 #
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