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Aug 23, 2012 20:05:35   #
Chris
 
zhallart wrote:
MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY - copied above

I think you would be making a mistake buying that expensive of a card no matter what size. I have a bunch of 16 & 8 meg class 10 SD cards. My reasoning is simple: They're cheap and if one of my cards craps out, I haven't lost that many pictures. I paid about $9.00 for a 16meg 1 month ago at Microcenter. They have a lifetime, no questions asked replacement warranty. They are the house brand. I think the are made by Kingston and Kingston makes about 90% of the SD cards that are out there. I have had only 2 go south in 2 years. Those ones I kept using over and over again, just like the one I am using now. If I am going to shoot something special, I always use my 8 meg cards just in case something happens, I have not lost a lot of good photos.
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I just went on microcenter and the cheapest 16 gig was 49

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Aug 23, 2012 20:08:27   #
mrjcall Loc: Woodfin, NC
 
zhallart wrote:
I think you guys must be way out of my league. I rarely shoot on anything above Medium /Regular setting on my D90 or Do 80 Nikon. Sometimes I get a Large/Fine request if they photos are going to be heavily cropped. I can get thousands of photos on an 8 gig card. I have never made a building size poster so I get by with small file sizes that regularly go to magazine print. What am I missing here?


You're not missing a thing if your pix work for you! :thumbup:

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Aug 23, 2012 20:19:32   #
zhallart Loc: Southern California
 
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Wow - what is microcenter -seems like a lot of money for a16 gig card. $49

AMAZON
SanDisk Extreme 8GB HD Video SDHC Flash Memory Card (SDSDX-008G) by SanDisk
$12.60

SanDisk Extreme 16 GB SDHC Class 10 UHS-1 Flash Memory Card 45MB/s SDSDX-016G-AFFP by SanDisk $16.99
In Stock


More Buying Choices
$9.63 new (15 offers) $8.99 used (5 offers)

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Aug 23, 2012 21:18:00   #
Marc3202 Loc: Birmingham, AL
 
Ditto on the smaller cards. Even shooting RAW, you can get a bunch of shots on an 8G card...

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Aug 24, 2012 15:30:23   #
marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL
 
Hanoverfarms wrote:
I'm ordering a lumix FZ200. Haven't decided what SD card to order.thinking of ordering top end lexar professional, xc10 64GB. Price is $133.95. Would I be wasting my money? Any help and advice would be appreciated . Thanks everyone. Only been a member for a few days, but have already learned a lot. Great group, glad I found you all.


It has been said many times on here that you're better off having several smaller cards rather than one large one because if something goes wrong with one card, or you lose the one card, everything is lost. With several smaller ones, you may lose a segment of photos but not all.

Plus, $133 for 64GB is higher than (s) 32GB cards and is thus wasting money. You should look at how many shots you'll get onto 8GB or 16GB and I think you'll be surprised at how many it is, unless you shoot RAW.

I personally wouldn't buy larger than 16GB for general personal use, but I WOULD buy Class 10 cards so they can be used for full-HD video whenever you want to.

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Aug 29, 2012 19:04:28   #
Festus Loc: North Dakota
 
I need to correct myself. Lexar cards are no longer made in the U.S. Now a product of china.

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