SD Cards
Feb 14, 2017 01:29:33 #
Have had good luck with Lexar, I use to use San Disk I had a problem, they put me through to many hoops to get it replaced. They did, it was just a hassle. I Take a lot of sunset pictures every night and use the 128's in My D750
Feb 14, 2017 02:09:44 #
johneccles wrote:
Personally I wouldn't use such high capacity sd cards, the largest size I use is 16gb. You will have a lot of photos on a 64gb but it's a lot to lose if the card becomes faulty, there's an old saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket". By all means buy a 64gb card for storage but not in your camera.
John,
I would suggest that the card size is only relevant if it's so small that you are continually swapping them out or you fail to off load your images on a frequent basis.
I have a mix of makes in both SD and CF cards - about a dozen 32Gb and another half dozen 64Gb. At the end of each shoot the images are off loaded and a new directory made on the card. When the card becomes 80 - 90% full I put in a new formatted card. (If time permits I reformat in camera before continuing to shoot.)
The full card is put away in a small card case and only formatted and used again after I've filled all the other cards I have. This allows the cards to be used as medium term back-ups to the hard drive. With this idea in mind I try to have enough cards for complete vacations and they travel home in my small card folder on my person.
After returning home and processing the images the edited copies are uploaded to SmugMug as a further backup.
Regarding the reliability of cards I have only ever had one card fail - a Lexar. Makes I currently use include Transcend, Delkin, Samsung, SanDisk, Adata, Kingston, and PNY. I have never found any significant difference between their performance . All are at least class 10 and some much higher speed than that. My 7Dll has dual processors so this may contribute something to this experience and most of the time I shoot with the shutter set at High Speed Silent mode although the standard High Speed, (10 fps), is used occasionally. This is mostly for handheld moon shots. The one attached was shot this way and is of 11 frames stacked. Manual setting f8, 1/800 EF-100-400 ll + EF 1.4X ll. Edited in CC
Feb 14, 2017 03:04:44 #
Woodworm65 wrote:
I have been looking at purchasing a couple of extra 64 gig cards and would like to know what is the SD card of choice most UHH members prefer, have looked at many reviews and became even more confused on what to by so hopefully I can get an answer from UHH members thanks.
I stay with Sandisk and Lexar, the two top brands. 90+mbs read speed. Not saying that Toshiba, Sony, Transcend, etc are bad, but for the price Sandisk invented the thing and Lexar was the first to license it.
Feb 14, 2017 14:54:24 #
One postscript to my previous post.
If shooting anything you don't want to lose make sure that your cards are big enough so that you can change them when you wish and not because they are full. This way when things are happening and you don't want to stop shooting you won't have to. In addition you can choose when you have enough images that loss from the card going bad is beginning to worry you - nobody makes you use all the space unless you want to.
Also most storage media are more likely to corrupt data when close to capacity. I don't know of any risks associated with having some spare room.
It's worth saying that although I have a mix of makes, sizes and speeds I certainly wouldn't if I was back doing this stuff professionally. I would choose from one of the two or three top makes, (assuming their quality control would be excellent), and I would be using these in a mirrored configuration in my dual card camera.
It all comes down to the importance of your images and your level of paranoia ;-)
If shooting anything you don't want to lose make sure that your cards are big enough so that you can change them when you wish and not because they are full. This way when things are happening and you don't want to stop shooting you won't have to. In addition you can choose when you have enough images that loss from the card going bad is beginning to worry you - nobody makes you use all the space unless you want to.
Also most storage media are more likely to corrupt data when close to capacity. I don't know of any risks associated with having some spare room.
It's worth saying that although I have a mix of makes, sizes and speeds I certainly wouldn't if I was back doing this stuff professionally. I would choose from one of the two or three top makes, (assuming their quality control would be excellent), and I would be using these in a mirrored configuration in my dual card camera.
It all comes down to the importance of your images and your level of paranoia ;-)
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