The Optimal SD Card for the Nikon D7000

Question

In my quest for new equipment I have now reached SD cards.

Now I know the Nikon D7000 supports UHS-1 (1) , but how is the performance gain? H ow many MB/sec does it support? I don't want to buy a 95MB/sec card if it only supports 50MB/sec.

Thanks for reading.

(1) Source: http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d7000/features03.htm

Asked by Allan Kimmer Jensen

Answer

Rob Galbraith has a full spread of tests with just about every popular card for this camera. To sum up the results, the fastest card is the SanDisk Extreme Pro 8GB SDHC card. It performed at 27.7MB/s JPEG and 26.4MB/s RAW for a burst of 39 shots in 30 seconds. The speed test was performed by shooting 17 JPEG Fine and then 10 NEF files.

More info can be found here: Rob Galbraith D7000 write speed test

The "optimal" card might include price, which varies and goes out of date, so I won't comment on that here.

Answered by dpollitt

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Will using a micro SD & adapter instead of a normal SD card affect the quality of pictures and video?

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I've just bought a 32GB Class 4 SD card from a seller on eBay and he has sent me a micro SD card of the same size and speed instead. Obviously I'm not too happy about this but we are going to Disney Land Paris in two days and I don't think I'll have time to exchange it.

I was wondering if using a micro SD card will affect the quality of pictures and video with my Fujitus Finepix S1850 at all?

Answer

Short answer: no.

Long answer: no. Your Fujitsu point and shoot camera has a much lower throughput than your card's max, so the bottleneck with shooting lots of pictures very, very quickly will be the camera itself, not the memory card. Additionally, there will be absolutely no difference in image of video quality... this is digital after all.

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Will a micro SD & adapter work just as well as a normal SD card in a digitial camera?

Question

I've just bought a 32GB Class 4 SD card from a seller on eBay and he has sent me a micro SD card of the same size and speed instead. Obviously I'm not too happy about this but we are going to Disney Land Paris in two days and I don't think I'll have time to exchange it.

I was wondering if using a micro SD card will affect the quality of pictures and video with my Fujitus Finepix S1850 at all?

Answer

Short answer: no.

Long answer: no. Your Fujitsu point and shoot camera has a much lower throughput than your card's max, so the bottleneck with shooting lots of pictures very, very quickly will be the camera itself, not the memory card. Additionally, there will be absolutely no difference in image of video quality... this is digital after all.

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Lost photos on my SD card while shooting with Nikon D80

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I spend a day in and around Verona, Italy past weekend and was shooting around with a lent Nikon D80. I used a 2G SD card for storage. I was shooting FINE/L JPEG photos. When it got to 161 photos before it was full I started getting a CHR/CHA (since it's digital display I can't really say whether it's an A or an R) reding on the mono display. Anyway. It was blinking and after every shot the number increased back from 160 to 161 so I realised that something has been going on.

I tried replying my photos but camera wouldn't show me anything. Anyway. For the last 30 minutes of shooting I changed SD card to at lest be able to continue shooting but the shocker came afterwards.

When I inserted the SD card in my computer it started behaving badly because I wasn't able to get any photos off of it. When I tried to do a disk error checking, it dis something quickly and now when I try to put the card it it says it needs to be formatted before it can be used.

I'm afraid all my photos are now lost.

I wonder whether you're ever experienced anything similar? Which camera did you use and were you ever able to recover those photos you've taken?

It wasn't something so very important but I wonder what I would do if I took some photos of something I know I'd do only once in my life like a super special vacation somewhere and then loose all photographic memories?! I hope this kind of thing never happened to any of those wedding photographers. What an embarrassing moment that would be! Saying: "Would you please do the whole day again please, because I lost your photos?" is probably out of the question.

Answer

Making this an answer by request. This post is basically a duplicate, although that's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Earlier questions are:

• Recover deleted photos from an SD Card
• Recover photo files in corrupt-filesystem CF card

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Are Toshiba SDHC cards good for Canon DSLR cameras?

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I was going through the SDHC cards available in the market and found a really cheap card from a website offering discounted camera and photo gear. I did go through the mostly recommended San Disk SDHC cards, but would you guys suggest me to go for this Toshiba SDHC card? I haven't really come across any reviews about Toshiba memory cards. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

My intentions are to use it for HD videos mostly.

Answer

Toshiba is a reputable company that does put out quality products. At one time they have even had claims to fame for the fastest SD cards(source). If you are looking for the cheapest of the cheap, I do not know why you are necessarily asking this question. They are not a popular brand of memory cards, so you will not find many reviews(if any). If you are concerned with speed and reliability, and not price, I would recommend Sandisk, Transcend, Kingston, or Lexar.

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Best 32GB SD card for GoPro's HD HERO2?

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I want to purchase the best SD card I can get for the new GoPro HD HERO2.

On GoPro's website they sell a class 10 32GB Sandisk card, but is there a faster one I can get?

I was looking at these two, but I'm not sure if either one is compatible.

1. Extreme® Pro™ SDHC™ UHS-I
2. Extreme® Pro™ SDHC™/SDXC™ UHS-I

Answer

The GoPro HD Hero 2 states on the specs page that it requires a class 4 or higher SDHC card at up to 32GB. Class 4 isn't that fast by today's standards, and actually equates to 4MB/s read/write speeds. The two cards you pointed out are compatible with SDHC, but are much much faster, and even way out of the current class leagues. They rate them as 300x or 45MB/s read/write.

In other words, you wouldn't have any problem using those memory cards, but from what I can tell they would be overkill. One thing that may be worth mentioning is the two SandDisk Extreme Pro cards that you pointed out do state that they have "extreme durability" with temperature proofing, water proofing, and shock proofing - all things which you may benefit from in extreme conditions.

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