Canon 5D Mark III: CF and SDXC cards

nghix123 · May 1, 2012, 12:55 AM

Hey everyone,

As some of you may know the 5DM3 now has dual memory card slots (CF and SDXC). I was wondering if anyone knew how to set one card to captures RAW files while the other captures JPEG? Seems like you can only set it to capture one type of format at one time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

VirtualRain · May 1, 2012, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by nghix123

Hey everyone,

As some of you may know the 5DM3 now has dual memory card slots (CF and SDXC). I was wondering if anyone knew how to set one card to captures RAW files while the other captures JPEG? Seems like you can only set it to capture one type of format at one time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

You can't have looked that hard?

There's two relevant menu options... the first item on the first menu screen "Image quality", and the first item on the first wrench screen "Record func+card". Set the latter to "Rec. Separately" and then use the first to decide which card gets which quality/type

jbg232 · May 1, 2012, 07:04 AM

I agree that this was actually a little difficult to figure out and not intuitive. I have no clue why canon put the options to control recording of the cards not only on two different screens but in two totally different parts of the menu system. However, as Virtual Rain noted, you need to choose "record separately" for the cards and then go into the image size menu option separately to specify which cards to record which sizes (ie CF card records RAW images while SD card records JPEGs)

fcortese · May 1, 2012, 09:31 AM

You can also quickly change them on the fly by using the "Q" button which brings up the QuickMenu where you can adjust many of your camera settings related directly to picture taking. You can change your setting from there as well. Just use the joystick (multi-controller) to move to wherever you want, hit the set button and make your changes then hit the set button again.

nghix123 · May 1, 2012, 10:43 AM

Thanks you guys. I appreciate the help. Knew I can always count on members on this forum!

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nghix123 macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: California	Canon 5D Mark III: CF and SDXC cards Hey everyone, As some of you may know the 5DM3 now has dual memory card slots (CF and SDXC). I was wondering if anyone knew how to set one card to captures RAW files while the other captures JPEG? Seems like you can only set it to capture one type of format at one time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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jbg232 macrumors 65816 Join Date: Oct 2007	I agree that this was actually a little difficult to figure out and not intuitive. I have no clue why canon put the options to control recording of the cards not only on two different screens but in two totally different parts of the menu system. However, as Virtual Rain noted, you need to choose "record separately" for the cards and then go into the image size menu option separately to specify which cards to record which sizes (ie CF card records RAW images while SD card records JPEGs) __________________ Macbook \| iPad \| iPhone \| Apple TV 5D Mark III \| 24-105L \| 100-400L \| 50 f/1.4 \| 50 f/2.8 Macro \| 580 EX II
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fcortese macrumors 65816 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Big Sky country	You can also quickly change them on the fly by using the "Q" button which brings up the QuickMenu where you can adjust many of your camera settings related directly to picture taking. You can change your setting from there as well. Just use the joystick (multi-controller) to move to wherever you want, hit the set button and make your changes then hit the set button again. __________________ 15"MBP 2.66 i7 8GB; iPod Classic; iPhone5; Canon 5DIII w/24-105 f4L & 4 lenses "You can observe a lot by just watching"-Yogi Berra florcortese.smugmug.com
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nghix123 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: California	Thanks you guys. I appreciate the help. Knew I can always count on members on this forum!
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