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I find 32GB cards optimal for me, shooting in RAW + finest JPEG. I've never filled a 32GB card in one session and I got a good 6-7 of them. I'm not filming is worth mentioning. As others have mentioned "don't put all eggs in one basket".
With that said, I vote for the "Transcend 64GB Ultimate SDXC UHS Ultra High Speed Class 3". It's a so small price gap from 32GB that I'm willing to pay a little extra, and if I need to film something I know I got some extra space at least.
With that said, I vote for the "Transcend 64GB Ultimate SDXC UHS Ultra High Speed Class 3". It's a so small price gap from 32GB that I'm willing to pay a little extra, and if I need to film something I know I got some extra space at least.
I vote for lexar 2000x 128gb and lexar 1000x 64gb. I tend to use 64gb cards unless i shoot video, and i need high write for when i'm shooting at 6-12fps 24MP and my buffer fills up, granted i think my camera limits that writing speed a bit. I also have better luck with lexar than sandisk. Never had the contacts just fall out of lexar, had it happen on couple sandisks.
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for video and situations where you'd be doing lots of burst shooting (especially burst RAW), you'd want capacity, but ideally you'd have multiple cards.
I bring my MacBook Pro with me to big events like this and have an automator script that dumps the SD card into a new folder on my desktop (not a best practice, but it works), verifies data, and wipes the card. This way, I can use my 2 16GB cards as needed. I have another script that doesn't wipe the card if I need to be really sure about it.
Edit: I guess I didn't see Freeframed's comment, but it needs to be reiterated!
I'd be very weary of trusting ALL my photos to a single 128 gb card. Sandisk makes some good stuff, but do you really want to put all your eggs in a single basket and hope nothing happens, or get 2 64gb cards (or better yet, 4 32gb) for the same price and have more redundancy?
I'd be very weary of trusting ALL my photos to a single 128 gb card. Sandisk makes some good stuff, but do you really want to put all your eggs in a single basket and hope nothing happens, or get 2 64gb cards (or better yet, 4 32gb) for the same price and have more redundancy?
ClusterFlux
But what about recording long videos?... but i guess you're right... hmm
PazkualG
I guess I'm only thinking of the photo side of things, and a bigger card would be nice for video.
vote Transcend 64 GB High Speed 10 UHS-3 Flash Memory Card 95/60 MB/s (TS64GSDU3)
it is very cheap and supper reliable
While everyone has different needs, its worth mentioning that these high capacity cards render you putting all you eggs in one basket so to speak. Some individuals, including my self, would rather have four 16 gb cards then one 64 gb card as whether Im shooting a job or taking photos while on vacation having everything on one card means if it goes bad, or the camera / card is stolen everything is lost rather than just some of your images. Just my 2 cents.
freeframed
You make a very valid point. I'm the type of person that always dumps my photos from my card to my laptop asap and then I format the card in camera, just to avoid total loss from card failure. But I would rather have 4x 64gb cards than smaller 16gb cards because I like having the option of shooting 3000 raw photos at a time if I'm doing a large shoot (3k is still overkill, I usually don't take more than 300-500 photos before being able to dump to laptop). IMO 2x 64gb is better than 1x 128gb because of the price gap, but 1x 64gb is much more useful to me than 4x 16gb. Just my 2c.
freeframed
i use 64gb cards. Takes me a year or two to fill them up, and i back up them up to cloud the whole time. Never put your eggs in one basket... meaning you have to backup your photos from the SD cards as well..
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