Nikon d7100 - 45mb/s 0r 95mb/s memory card ?

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Im going to buy a couple of new 16gb memory cards for my new d7100 but I'm not sure if I need to go for the sandisk extreme pro or extreme . It's early days with the camera (2 weeks) so not had any buffer problems that you read sometimes .I shoot optimal fine jpeg at the moment but I will try raw one day .
How much difference will I see in the writing speeds in my camera . Is the extra expense of the 95mb/s worth it ?
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If it's anything like the D610 (which I guess it is) then the write speed tops out at around 50mb/s so there is limited benefit in getting 95mb/s.
 
Its possible something like 60mbs a second will cope with the cameras write speed,but with raw files it could also be you would see benefits from the 95mbs when downloading to the pc.
 
Actually, for my D610 I split the difference and went for some Lexar Pro 60mb/s cards (equally as good as Sandisk)
 
I agree with Mike, it's not necessarily the write speed, it's more the read speed. When reviewing images or downloading to the computer then slow cards can be really slow, especially if you let the card get full.

If you can afford the 95's then I think I would be tempted to do that.

Just my opinion though. :)
 
45MB. There's no point getting 90MB cards... the camera just can't write to the cards that fast anyway. Pointless. The only advantage would be the downloading of the final images to the computer with a fast card reader and USB3. While in camera and being used, the camera is just not capable of writing to the card at 90MB/sec.
 
I'm in the same position as Wooders, only I was going for two 8GB for my forthcoming D7100. I get confused however when reading the specs. (looking at Premier Ink) they have 8gb Extreme, class 10, 45mb/s @£7.99, Extreme class 10, 80mb/s @£13.99, and Extreme Pro, class 10, 95mb's @£17.99. reading the above comments enables a clear choice, but the next card on their list causes me some confusion, a Lexar professional class 10, 60mb/s, but then adds 400x, @ £9.99. so I really don't know which is the better option. Is the 400x the speed it writes to the camera? I'm not too bothered about the speed of writing to the computer.
 
Ian-Highlander said:
According to several websites out there, Nikon have said the D7100 can write to SD cards at 99MB/s although I haven't been able to find an actual Nikon source for this info to confirm it though. I use 45MB/s ones in mine.

http://d7100.org/2013/03/sd-card-speed-comparison-for-nikon-d7100/
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I find it hard to believe Nikon has a)made an enthusaist camera with a buffer issue quicker than their current flagship and b) made these statements at all and think the sites are factually incorrect given Nikon's D4 can only write to XQD at 92MB/s and the D800 at 69MB/s
 
madmardle said:
I'm in the same position as Wooders, only I was going for two 8GB for my forthcoming D7100. I get confused however when reading the specs. (looking at Premier Ink) they have 8gb Extreme, class 10, 45mb/s @£7.99, Extreme class 10, 80mb/s @£13.99, and Extreme Pro, class 10, 95mb's @£17.99. reading the above comments enables a clear choice, but the next card on their list causes me some confusion, a Lexar professional class 10, 60mb/s, but then adds 400x, @ £9.99. so I really don't know which is the better option. Is the 400x the speed it writes to the camera? I'm not too bothered about the speed of writing to the computer.
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400X means 400X faster than the first CD players which were 150kb/s and is the read speed. Pretty meaningless today given how many of these CD players are probably still going and who can remember anything about them. Used to just be for CF but marketing people think it looks great so you find it on SD cards now too. 400X 150kb/s= 60MB/s which is what it you said the card is. These are all still the read speeds though so don't think it's writing at 60MB/s because it wont.
 
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