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Jumping from a 6mp camera (D40) to a 16mp camera (D7000) means that my collections of cards do not cut it any more (8GB class Sandisk extreme and a couple of 4 and a 2GB one).

What does everybody use? Should I stick with Sandisk although a bit pricey or are there cheaper brands that are ok to use?
 
What is wrong with those?

Maybe just buy a 8gb high speed card and use the others when you don't need such speed. I use 3x 4gb and 1x high speed 2gb, does me fine pretty much, even for the entire Le Mans weekend recently.
 
I shoot raw exclusively so I'd like bigger ones and an 8GB one stores about 200 or so images if I am right. So was going t opick a couple 16GB ones and was checking to see what people use mostly.
 
I shoot RAW exclusively too....

I just find I take less shots but get alot more keepers now, so use less memory. It is very rare I'd need more than 4gb to be honest, unless going away.
 
Right could it be that the guestimate is waaaaay off, cause from empty it says 223 on RAW only for an 8GB card?

And am away on hols in a few weeks so I know for a fact that I will need more than 500.
 
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the 7dayshop ones are good. You can get a class 10 16gb for around £25 i think. they are also pretty reliable.
 
I have a Sandisk Extreme Pro 32Gb and a 8Gb in my D7000. And yes I was amazed, although I have never done the maths, how few photos fit on a 8Gb card....
 
I tend to stick with Sandisk 16GB Extreme. I keep toying with the idea of Transcend, but not too sure on them although reviews seem good.

It might be worth noting that unless you are needing to shoot at lot of images at a time 8GB are fine, if the unthinkable happens, then at least you have lost a lesser amount of images.
 
ding76uk said:
I tend to stick with Sandisk 16GB Extreme. I keep toying with the idea of Transcend, but not too sure on them although reviews seem good.

It might be worth noting that unless you are needing to shoot at lot of images at a time 8GB are fine, if the unthinkable happens, then at least you have lost a lesser amount of images.
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Or make use of the double card backup facility ;-)
 
I just returned two Transcend 8gb cards as I was getting a few unreadable files on both of them.

Gone back to using the same Sandisk card I've had for a year and no problems.

A bad batch? Unlucky? User error? Don't know.

Just my personal experience.
 
Ended up with two class 6 lexars 16gb for 30£ in total see how they do. I knew sandisks are popular but their 16gb ones are a tad expensive. I will be backing up the images to the sec card so hopefully it will all be good
 
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