jtg Loc: Southern Louisiana

I just purchased 2 new cards last night at Best Buy and would like to get input on whether they are good cards. I cannot seem to find that particular card on Amazon to compare price.
SanDisk Ultra Plus SDHC UHS-1 16 GB Class 10 Speed up to 40MB 266X. I paid $14.99 for each. Thanks.

Wahawk Loc: NE IA

Very good cards and bery good price. I use SanDisk and PNY most of the time and have never had problems.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Excellent choice, especially if your camera can write as fast as these cards can record.
I have used SanDisk almost exclusively for the past 12 or so years and never had a problem.

amehta Loc: Boston

I might opt for the next better SanDisk cards: SanDisk 16GB SDHC Extreme Plus ($25 @ B&H), with 80MB/s read and 60MB/s write speeds.

The problem with the cards you got is that the read speed is 40MB/s, but the write speed is not specified. From the SanDisk Ultra Plus page:

"Performance/speed: Up to 40MB/s** read speed; write speed lower"

With the SD Ultra, the speeds are 30/10 MB/s, so it is reasonable to expect write speeds of 10-20MB/s for the cards you got. That sounds really fast, until you realize that your D7100 nef files are 20-30MB. The Extreme Plus is 3-4x faster when writing the images.

EDIT: I think I will amend my suggestion to RETURN IT.

Marilyng Loc: Lorain,Oh.

So are you saying she should return these cards? I have a D7100 as well & would love to purchase them at that price!

Mmatu

I have used SanDisk SD and CF cards for over TEN years, never had any
Problems. That is a great price. When I down load my images., after completed I always formate my cards.

I always have been using Canon cameras.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Marilyn, yes I would agree that you should probably use the fastest read/write cards that your camera can deal with.
Your camera supports UHS-I cards, which I believe is the fastest type on the market today.

Now, do you need to spend the extra money on the fastest cards possible? That depends on the type of photography you do. For myself: I have a dedicated camcorder, so I "don't do" movies with my camera. It is rare that I use sequential or burst shooting, and even then, only 3-5 images.
I have 2 or 3 cards rated at "15mb/sec" and use them regularly.

Personally, I would not return the cards if I got them at a good price. Maybe it is an idea to buy one super-super fast card and have it in your camera bag. If I go to some event, I usually know beforehand whether I'll be taking bursts of photos.

On that note: Last week we had Momma Starling and three babies on our birdfeeder. I wanted photos of the babies with their mouths wide open, and used this opportunity to practice pressing the shutter button at just the right moment. The first couple of dozen were throwaways, but I ended up with a number of good photos. I think that my next practice will be of the show-jumping at Thunderbird Park.

In any case: Make sure you have a card in your camera when you press that shutterbutton, and enjoy taking the photos at the moment and the memories afterwards.

jtg Loc: Southern Louisiana

Thanks for your help. I did notice that the write speed was not the 40MB when trying to compare products but did not know what that would mean. If I do not take more than 2 or 3 burst shots at a time, do you think the price of these warrant keeping. I usually only take one shot at a time for landscape. My problem is that my current cards are occupied with pictures from a trip I just took and I have not transferred them to my computer (lack of time) and I am leaving in the morning for 2 days of shooting. Best Buy was my only option this week. But if the cards are not good enough to bother with, I will stay up until midnight and clean off my good cards :) Thanks again.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

I have a D7100 and when I shoot with the slower card, the camera balks waiting on the write to the card.. this is where you notice the buffer filling on the camera. When I use the faster card... I can shoot almost continuously without the buffer noticeably filling.

Note: Nikon only supports Sandisk, Lexar, Toshiba and Panasonic cards..... *this just means that if you have problems with other brands, Nikon support will have you see if the problem repeats itself with a supported brand before doing a repair*

moffie100

Watch the ads in the Sunday paper for Best Buy.
I just got several 32 GB class 10 cards with 40 MB speed for $24.99 that are normally $69.99. They had the wrong picture in their ad, but honored it. I did have the ad with me. Also got a 32 GB, class 10 80 MB for $34.99. All SanDisk. Hope they keep printing the wrong SD card picture in their ads.

sloscheider Loc: Minnesota

I get the fastest cards I can but NOT because the camera can make use of it. Folks who've test the D7000 write speed have found it tops out around 37 MB per second.

I value the time I save while importing photos to the computer. A card that's twice as fast takes half the time (theoretically)

So the cards you got will allow your cameras to work at peak performance but could slow you down at your desktop. For many folks that's not a big deal.

Pepsiman Loc: New York City

amehta Loc: Boston

I would use your good cards.

The slower speed won't matter. Until it does. At least that's what Murphy told me when I tripped getting out of bed this morning. ;-)

amehta Loc: Boston

Given the choice between
* Ultra Plus, $15, 1/2 NEF file per second
* Extreme Plus, $25, 2 NEF files per second
do you save $10 when using your $1000 camera?

amehta Loc: Boston

I do not think they are generally published, and your question is completely valid. Obviously the optimum situation is a card at the same speed as the camera, but if I'm going to guess wrong, I want the faster card, not the slower card.