randy.sauder
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Flight distance : 872572 ft
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randy.sauder Posted at 2017-3-17 20:22
All kidding aside. Here's the difference: the 'pro' version is spec'd at roughly 2x that of the Extreme version (both in Read and Write speeds). Back in the day when Sandisk's Extreme and Pro first came out the ONLY difference was that the Pro version had a 10 yr warranty and the Extreme was 5 yrs; also the Pro came with data recovery software; for all these 'extras' they charged about double for it. Now they are differentiated only by these specs (and maybe the Pro has Lifetime warranty vs 10yrs; not sure). Given the Mavics' lower data rates when in 4K, Extreme is perfectly good so save some some cash. To be honest, I've been at this a long time with digital vid/photography and can say that Write speeds really don't matter much for capturing video as the mavic has the full record time to write the video. Where Write speeds become crucial is when taking pictures- only only specifically when you are doing sports photography at say greater than 5 frames per second. For example when shooting in RAW format, file sizes can be upto 20MB or larger...so if you need to shoot 5 Fps, that's 100MB/s write speed before the camera craps out and this EXCEEDS the Sandisk Extreme Pro's spec Write @ 60 MB/S; so you can only get 3 pictures per second in this scenario, But the Pro will give you 100MB/s and will capture the full burst.
In short, Extreme is perfectly suited to the Mavic. The Extreme is about 10x faster than the Mavic requires (max datarate of 60 Mbps = 4.5 MB/s, vs 60MB/s in the card). However the Mavic states that it can shoot upto 7 Fps; possible at full resolution with the Extreme Pro but NOT the Extreme (5 only here); not a big deal at all as you can just drop the image size down a bit and get your 7 Fps if you want...
correction in the above. In " before the camera craps out and this EXCEEDS the Sandisk Extreme Pro's spec Write @ 60 MB/S;" I obviously meant 'Extreme' not "Extreme Pro' here...
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