Hello, Just upgraded to a D750 and got a 32 MB card with the camera. need another card to use for some videos as well as for long day shoots so basically a 64-128 GB card.
have following choices:
Sony SDHC UHS II at 300MB/s speed nearly double the price
Sony SDXC UHS I at 95 MB/s
I will cehckout other brands as well bt thought I d ask about max speed camera can use. I don't mind paying more for a faster card but if camera can't use all that speed I see it as an unnecessary purchase.
Any idea what speeds the camera writes at so I decide accordingly. read time to PC is not a major concern to me.
Thanks for any suggestions.
maroun.c wrote:
Thanks for the info.prefer to buy a larger capacity card for the price difference
The article says the max bus speed is about 104Mbs and max write speeds are 69Mbs for the fasted card.
Larger cards aren't much different.
As Lora said, everything above 95Mbs is a waste of money.
The SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO UHS-I SDXC is 95Mbs and costs about $50 at B&H, the 64Gb only $23
Chris Dees wrote:
The article says the max bus speed is about 104Mbs and max write speeds are 69Mbs for the fasted card.
Larger cards aren't much different.
As Lora said, everything above 95Mbs is a waste of money.
The SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO UHS-I SDXC is 95Mbs and costs about $50 at B&H, the 64Gb only $23
While there as mentioned above indeed is only an relative advantage to be gained from buying a faster card for use in a camera, there however also is another aspect to be considered
Especially when using a large card (and IMO eg 128GB qualifies as such) having a fast card will/can save a lot of time if you have to download a lot of images or even have filled up the card completely
I e.g. have noticed a major difference in transfer time of a completely filled 64GB Sony G 400x XQD card (via a Sony XQD card reader with Nikon Transfer) vs the 95MB/s Sandisk SD card (used as a 2nd card slot back up plugged directly into the SD card slot of my I7 12GB 756SSD Macbook Pro)
The XQD card was downloaded much faster on the Macbook, a major convenience for me when I want to access/process images I shot, eg of an event, asap
I eg regularly shoot hundreds and more images during catwalk shows
Plenty of competition, and consequently time pressure there, especially when there is no/no fast enough Wifi at the venue to allow sending at least JPG's during the show
Paul_K wrote:
While there as mentioned above indeed is only an relative advantage to be gained from buying a faster card for use in a camera, there however also is another aspect to be considered
Agreed .... write speed in the camera is only half of the equation to be considered ... increased read speed for ingesting images after a shoot, especially for volume shooters working on deadline, is another important aspect for consideration.
That doesn't mean you have to buy the fastest, most expensive cards available, but even marginally faster cards can save you significant quality time monitoring a task bar later on.
Thanks for all the replies. Will checkout prices here and go for as fast card as budget allows as indeed cards ain’t crazy expensive. One last question as I’m coming from a D300 before this upgrade. Would u go with multiple 32 or maybe 64 Gb cards VS 1-2 128 GB card to minimize list files if a card goes bad or are corrupted cards a thing from the past ? 🙂
Also do U prefer using the dual slots as back up of each other or overflow ? Any one saving Raed on one card and JPEGs on the other ?
I use dual Sandisk Extreme Pro SD cards in backup mode on my D750, ever since the day I got it. I dont worry about corruption because I have the second card if anything happends with the first card.
Maybe its because I'm a programmer, but data security is a nobrainer to me. I just do it. I dont want to lose any files just because I have no backup.
I fail to get the point of discussing XQD cards in this thread. XQD cards cannot be used with the D750. It exclusively runs on SD cards.
Sauseschritt wrote:
I fail to get the point of discussing XQD cards in this thread. XQD cards cannot be used with the D750. It exclusively runs on SD cards.
I mentioned the XQD cards for the superior write/read speed in comparison to a 95MB/second SD card,
both of which I have and use myself
That much faster write/read speed is IMO relevant in this discussion since there also are UHS II SD cards
like eg the Sandisk Extreme Pro SDHC cards available with a compared to a Sony G QXD card similarly
fast, although not as fast, write and read speed
And those SD cards obviously also can be used in a D750
However don't have or use one of those
And although this is the internet with too many self declared experts make statements based
on hear say or rehashing read something on an obscure site, I for one don't
want to make any claims or statements on gear I haven't any personal experience with
So I prefer to in this case give IMO relevant info on the XQD and SD cards I work with on my D850
maroun.c wrote:
Thanks for all the replies. Will checkout prices here and go for as fast card as budget allows as indeed cards ain’t crazy expensive. One last question as I’m coming from a D300 before this upgrade. Would u go with multiple 32 or maybe 64 Gb cards VS 1-2 128 GB card to minimize list files if a card goes bad or are corrupted cards a thing from the past ? 🙂
Also do U prefer using the dual slots as back up of each other or overflow ? Any one saving Raed on one card and JPEGs on the other ?...Show more →
Since as you mention memory cards are becoming less and less expensive (with exception perhaps of
the really fast one like eg the Sandisk Extreme Pro SDHC card I mentioned earlier) I would go for
multiple large cards
How big however is a matter of taste and need
If you are a relative low volume shooter I see no need or use for getting a 128GB card
I personally at times need to shoot hundreds of pictures during a catwalk show which
also due to the undesired loss of time if needing to swap cards makes a large card a logical
choice
But if you're a low volume shooter and don't download the pictures taken from the card regularly
that's a different story
Apart from the higher price, in the although, based on only having had two cards fail on me since
starting to shoot digital in 2003 (one a very early 2003 1GB Transcend card, the quality of which has
reportedly has improved since, and a CF card some years ago which literally fell apart when I took it
out of the camera ) admittedly unlikely case of card failure, using a big card can mean loss of a lot of
pictures
Based on my experience of being able to store over 2000 lossless compressed NEF's on
a 64 GB (OK, QXD, but I'm talking card capacity here) with a Z6 (which has a similar to the D750 24
Megapixel sensor resulting in approx 35 MB lossless compressed NEF's) 128GB means a lot of
images which potentially can be lost
A 'smaller' 32 or 64 GB card kind of reduces that risk, although of course the risk of card failure
at least theoretically increases since you need to use more cards to equal 128GB
With regards to shooting RAW on one card and JPG on the other instead of 'back up' ,
I, again given the relatively low cost of memory cards, see little use for that nowadays
Having two card slots and 'cheap' cards makes shooting in full 'back up' mode
easy and affordable, with a lot of peace of mind as an bonus
(And yes, I would have loved an extra card slot on the Z6, even if I have a lot of confidence
in the reliability of XQD cards compared to the much more fragile SD cards)
I only do so sometimes with my D800 and D850 when I need to send JPG's as quick
as possible but don't have a 'wider' Wifi network available
In that case I shoot RAW on the CF or XQD slot card, and due to the size of that card,
small size Basic JPG's on one of the EyeFi Wifi cards I still have
(So far haven't been able to get Toshiba WiFi cards nor Nikon Snapbridge working as
smoothly, so sticking with the Eyefi's for now)
From the EyeFi card the JPG's then are immediately sent to my phone from which I can transfer
them further
Thanks for the detailed answers. Just picked up 2 64 and 2 128 extreem pro 95 MB/s cards which along with the 32 GB card that came with the camera should be way more than what i need. Guess with time I'll have a better idea about the amount of storage i need for typical shoots which will allow me to better decide on which cards go in the camera and which sit in the bag on different types of shoots. Thanks again for the great info.
