My wife just purchased a 90D. All I've ever used are CF cards so SD is new to me. What is the fastest/best SD card I can buy for the 90D without going overboard? Thanks
A plain vanilla UHS-1 card (which tops out at 90MB/s) will allow you to do anything you need to do with a 90D. A (far more expensive) UHS-II card might give you a few more images in a long burst, and will be faster in offloading to a computer, but will cost several times as much as a similar capacity UHS-I card.
I personally like Sandisk Extreme for UHS-1 and Sony "M" cards for UHS-II.
rprouty wrote:
My wife just purchased a 90D. All I've ever used are CF cards so SD is new to me. What is the fastest/best SD card I can buy for the 90D without going overboard? Thanks
I use the Sony UHS II (300/299 MB/sec.) or Sandisk Extreme UHS II cards for anything involving action.
The Sandisk Extreme UHS I cards are cheap and sufficient for slower use.
deepbluejh wrote:
A plain vanilla UHS-1 card (which tops out at 90MB/s) will allow you to do anything you need to do with a 90D.
I personally like Sandisk Extreme for UHS-1 and Sony "M" cards for UHS-II.
CanNik wrote:
I think the cheaper ones (not Extreme Pro) will work fine for still photos too.
The (non-Pro) Extreme UHS-I cards are absolutely not fast enough for the 90D. Their write speed is something like 40 to 50 MB/s, as opposed to the speed that they advertise which is the read speed. Extreme Pro cards should be fine, with actual max write speeds of ~90 MB/s, although that's still handicapping the camera's true capability.
My Lexar professional 2000x can get me ~70 CRAWs in burst, which a lot more than the 27 I get with the uhs-I Sandisk extreme pro with the very situational 170MB read.
Lexar 2000x V90.
The fastest Sandisk gets 10 less full RAW buffer. This is on 2 different 90d bodies and 4 different Sandisk cards.
Using AI Servo in most cases the Lexar gives over 40 RAW buffer. I will be retesting the Sony card but they cost much more than the Lexar 2000x.
If V90 is not marked on the card you don't want it for action shots.
I haven't been really hard on my SD cards lately, but I often get the inexpensive grey SanDisk, and the micro sd+ adapter, as well. I'm not shooting a 90D, but I often shoot raw+jpeg and the rebels have a small buffer. Also if you shot C-raw, the files might be smaller than an 18 or 24mp.
The gold SanDisk are a bit faster and not much more expensive. Idk if these are fast enough for your needs, but the grey SanDisk 64gb is like $12. Might work.
I shoot the 90D, and bought a Sandisk Extreme Pro UHS-II for it. But, in practice there is little difference between it and the dirt cheap in comparison Sandisk Extreme Pro UHS-I, which I now use in the 90D.
I use a San Disk ExtremePro SDHC UHS-1 and trust SanDisk..I don't do "cheap" when it comes to image storage. Not that they are worse or have any inherit problems, just I don't want to loose any images. This is my 1st SD card usage on my 90D or any of my Canon bodies. I too am a CF guy!
Dan
