I have a Nikon D7100. I have set it up to right raw to card 1 and jpeg to card 2. I photograph birds quite often and we all know how fast they can be. I have been using SanDisk Ultra's which are class 10, 30MB/s cards. I shoot birds in the Continuous High shooting speeds and it takes approx. 20 seconds to free up the buffer for more shots. If I go with a faster write speed card for card slot 1 do I also need the same speed card in slot 2 or does it matter? I am assuming it won't matter since the jpegs being written to card 2 are so much smaller than the raw being written to card 1.

Thanks for your opinions.

I'm about to bruise some egos here:

Pine1, this is a personal decision. You appear to be a grown man enjoying some of the fruits of your labor and some of the nicer things in life, judging from your profile image. Do you ordinarily sit around and wait on others to tell you what you should do in a situation where an obvious philosophical decision needs to be made knowing that you are only going to start a controversial discussion that is going to result in nothing decisive being achieved. I like "rent a 610 for a week (or maybe an 800) and see for yourself."

For the rest of my fellow members, if we could possibly stick to reality and dispense with terms of extremes such as "indispensable for shooting wildlife," when it isn't, or "rediculously shallow depth of field" when "ridiculously shallow depth of field" is a woefully inaccurate comment given that there is no such animal, it would help us advise others more accurately. By all means, state your opinion but please stay away from exaggeration. You have no horse in this race so quit insisting by using prevarication that another person "do it your way." It will be beneficial for newbies observing if you make your comments so they more neutrally present the facts rather than putting on a slanted high pressure sales pitch like you have a stake in the outcome.

While I'm at it, for those of you who are fairly new to uhh, having posted some images to indicate that you can use your camera as well as you can talk about it goes a long way with some of us old geezers when it comes to taking what you have to say very seriously. And please don't use the excuse that you're not going to post anything for fear of someone stealing it. If you can sound like a consummate expert, you have been at this for a long time, and if that's the case there's not a single one of you who does not have at least one outstanding image you can sacrificially post to demonstrate that you can "walk the walk." I personally would like to see at least a few, maybe a dozen, of your shots from a variety of subject matter to demonstrate that you are more than a "one trick pony." If you only shoot one thing, as some do, then for sure posting multiple images would be a good thing, and remember, I said "if you don't want some of us to ignore what you have to say." If you can't "walk the walk" then perhaps you should not "talk the talk," but rather should just be quiet and get a free education like many of us do most of the time. There are several world class photographers in uhh and most of them are being noticeably quiet rather than argue with some of you who often don't know what you're talking about.

If you don't care whether people take you seriously or not then maybe you're wasting your time and ours in observing your comments. I should think that some of you would see that as a challenge to present your credentials, whatever they are. I'm not big on credentials but now and then when dealing with a complicated subject rife with subjectivity, it's nice and of some appreciable benefit to show some moral authority rather than everyone having to endure an attempt to bully the masses by swamping them with mere words. This is a photography forum about photographic images and "a picture is worth a thousand words." Show some!

Also while I'm unintentionally bruising egos and making future enemies here, let me just suggest that when you choose to reply to a comment someone has made, please use the "Quote reply" button so we will know which previous comment it is to which you refer or at least be courteous enough to use the persons name to which you are replying and summarize or repeat the comment you are addressing. When you choose to post a comment and it hangs out in midair apparently attached to nothing, it tends to make little sense and is therefore a useless waste of everyone's time and only makes you appear to be a person who goes around making nonsensical remarks, sometimes referred to as "stupid."

Those of you to whom my words do not apply, please do not take up some moralistic cause here and tell me what an ass I am. For the rest of you, if the shoe fits, wear it! And oh yow, I might be able to describe what the wrong side of the bed looks like this morning. :shock: :roll: :mrgreen: :thumbup: