SD Card for video on D7000

[htid]

Hi,

I'm after a few new SD cards as I'm off to South Africa in a few weeks and need a lot of space. I plan to take some videos too, but using my current class 6 SD card, I feel the videos at 1080p 24fps are slightly jerky, possibly because of the memory card write speed. I can get a class 10 card (10mb/s write speed) for £10, or a UHS-I card (up to 45mb/s write speed) for £16.

Has anybody used a class 10 with this camera (or I suppose any camera) and recorded video perfectly well? Is it fast enough? Is it pointless getting a UHS-I card due to the camera not making use of the much faster write speed?

What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[automag]

Hiya

I purchased 3 16gb 45mbs for £15 of these from amazon for my d7000, a few months back and didnt have any problems with them. I have just ordered another 3 and they are now £10.57.

I havent tried them for video yet but for the price you cant go wrong.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00422J0CG/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&redirect=true

At that price you get the best of both worlds use for video or photo

Regards

Ant

 

[hollis_f]

Hi,

I'm after a few new SD cards as I'm off to South Africa in a few weeks and need a lot of space. I plan to take some videos too, but using my current class 6 SD card, I feel the videos at 1080p 24fps are slightly jerky, possibly because of the memory card write speed.

I strongly doubt it. I presume Canon cameras produce video similar to that produced by Nikon. And Canon say that a Class 6 card is sufficient. Video images are very small - just 1280 x 1080 pixels for full HD. You only need around 5 MB/s tranfer speeds. It's probably not possible to buy a card that slow nowadays.

Are you sure it's the video recording that's being jerky and not the playback? Some video software has problems with HD and some of the intense codecs used by the cameras to get file sizes down.