Zpotter

I bought the XC10, I love the color. But one of the things I don't like about XC10 is the unnecessary and exclusive use of CFast for video recording. The highest data rate is 305mbs, which is less than 40MB/s. A Transcend SDXC UHS-I U3 can handle write speed of 60MB/s. A Sandisk in the same class can handle 90MB/s. UDMA7 CF cards can handle more than 100MB/s. I am sure Canon has no intention of releasing a future firmware update to enable a data rate of more than 500mbs. Then why did they made the choice of having CFast instead of CF? If they want to so blatantly champion the CFast standard, couldn't they at least match it with USB3.0 so that we can take advantage of the download speed? Instead, they burden us with a CFast reader, while take away the one thing we need, the battery charger. In a lot of ways, the design of XC10 makes sense. But in this respect, not at all. Is there any chance Canon can release a firmware update to allow us recording video on the SD?