Canon EOS Mark III - which memory card?? Plan on getting a Canon EOS Mark III, but not sure what memory card to get with it. Most pictures will be flowers and landscapes. Have been...

Richard2673 Loc: Eastern Oregon

Plan on getting a Canon EOS Mark III, but not sure what memory card to get with it.
Most pictures will be flowers and landscapes. Have been looking at the SanDisk CompactFlash extreme 32 gb.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Richard2673 wrote:

Plan on getting a Canon EOS Mark III, but not sure what memory card to get with it.
Most pictures will be flowers and landscapes. Have been looking at the SanDisk CompactFlash extreme 32 gb.

If you are referring to the 5D Mark III, then yes, that's a fine card to use. I use Lexar 1000x SD cards and 1066x CF cards in my 5D Mark III. I also chose to use 32GB cards. The faster the card the better in my opinion.

Richard2673 Loc: Eastern Oregon

Thank you...
Yes, I meant the Canon EOS 5D Mark III.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Richard2673 wrote:

Plan on getting a Canon EOS Mark III, but not sure what memory card to get with it.
Most pictures will be flowers and landscapes. Have been looking at the SanDisk CompactFlash extreme 32 gb.

Any of the extremes should be fine. The 60mb cards are more than enough.
Or, check the manual. It should be in the first couple pages.
If you use two cards, match the speed of both. Good luck! ;-)
SS

EdM Loc: FN30JS

the memory card has absolutely NOTHING TO do with the photos you are taking. like the manuf of a frig has to do with what you put in it.... Jeez........ the frig is either big enuff,, or it ain't.. 32 is more than enuff for taking both raw and jpgs, good fer hundreds...and the speed of the card is ONLY a factor when taking mult shots, and then not even much..

Capn_Dave

EdM wrote:

the memory card has absolutely NOTHING TO do with the photos you are taking. like the manuf of a frig has to do with what you put in it.... Jeez........ the frig is either big enuff,, or it ain't.. 32 is more than enuff for taking both raw and jpgs, good fer hundreds...and the speed of the card is ONLY a factor when taking mult shots, and then not even much..

Well in a way it does. Richard does not need a high speed memory card, like the extreme, if he is shooting, just flowers and landscapes. He could save a couple of bucks. When taking multi shots a faster card will make a big difference. I have tried it with a Canon 7D MKII. Either type of photography doesn't require high speed shooting like action photos and movies. I would even suggest he does not even need 32 gig. A couple of 16's would be preferable
Perhaps you should lighten up just a bit.

johnst1001a Loc: West Chester, Ohio

PNY elites work just fine, 95 mb/s. They are really very inexpensive. I actually get the 128 gb ones, as they are about the same price as the 64 gb ones on a $/gb cost. The 256 gb PNY elites are $80 on Amazon. I have never had an issue with them.
One may question why use a 256 gb card for photos? Heck, you would have to shoot like 30,000 pictures to fill it up. But I do use my 5dmk3 for video, and that takes a lot of memory. And I also follow the more is better "rule". Can't wait for the 512 gb ones to come down in price. They were $500, now about $151. My next card will be a 512, By the way, I do not delete my card pictures, I simply get another card, and used the SD's as a form of backup, as I also download the pics to my external hd.

BigBear Loc: Northern CT

I have the 5D mk III and I find that the 16gb cards are more than enough even shooting RAW.It has SD and CF drives which can be programmed different ways, so I suggest saving money by getting 2 16GB SD cards and 1 16GB CF set for overflow. Make sure it has speed class of 10 to handle video if you choose to do so.

Capn_Dave

BigBear wrote:

I have the 5D mk III and I find that the 16gb cards are more than enough even shooting RAW.It has SD and CF drives which can be programmed different ways, so I suggest saving money by getting 2 16GB SD cards and 1 16GB CF set for overflow. Make sure it has speed class of 10 to handle video if you choose to do so.

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thelazya Loc: Wendell, MN

For your type shooting, you can get away with 32GB cards. I use 128GB CF for my raw, and 64GB SD for jpeg.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Richard2673 wrote:

Plan on getting a Canon EOS 5D Mark III, but not sure what memory card to get with it.
Most pictures will be flowers and landscapes. Have been looking at the SanDisk CompactFlash extreme 32 gb.

For video or faster shooting situations, a higher performance card might be helpful. But for those stationary types of subjects you're pretty unlikely to be shooting long bursts, you don't need a fast card and practically any speed SD or CF card will work fine! Unless you shoot a whole lot of images... thousands... and are looking for faster image downloading.

Mainly think about the size card you need. I'd rather use a smaller card and swap them occasionally, than "put all my eggs in one basket" that might fail or get lost or accidentally go through the laundry.

I would never use a 128GB or 64GB memory card! In fact I currently use fifteen 16GB CompactFlash cards in three cameras (I do shoot sports/action mostly, so need faster memory, too). Those accommodate approx. 450 RAW files per card, which is plenty for even the busiest shooting day (plus I have around twenty 8GB cards available, if needed).

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

Richard2673 wrote:

Plan on getting a Canon EOS Mark III, but not sure what memory card to get with it.
Most pictures will be flowers and landscapes. Have been looking at the SanDisk CompactFlash extreme 32 gb.

The only thing I don't like about such large cards is if it fails you've lost a good bit of $$ and perhaps lots of photos/video.
I usually use 8 or 16gb cards for this reason because I have had these cards fail in the past... that applies to all SDHC cards not just the larger ones.

Good luck

Stevenwillemse Loc: Canberra Australia

There are excellent ideas from all others, from my side please do NOT get a cheap card. I had one of these cheap no name brands and it failed on me. Lost all the images, so from then only use a good brand of sd card, it could save you a lot of grief in the future.