SDHC Class 10 cards?

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Hey, I'm looking at getting a class 10 SD card as I think I'm aware this is the fastest card?

Will this make my camera faster when doing long shutter speeds for example? Cause if I do a 30 second shutter speed with my current card it takes like 20 seconds to process the picture. :)

Does this look ok? - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transcend-16GB-SDHC-Class-Memory/dp/B002WE4HE2

Or should I spend £34 on a sandisk one?

Thanks!
 
I think your problem might be in camera processing rather than camera to card data transfer.

But I'm not too up on Nikon stuff.
 
lolage said:
Hey, I'm looking at getting a class 10 SD card as I think I'm aware this is the fastest card?

Will this make my camera faster when doing long shutter speeds for example? Cause if I do a 30 second shutter speed with my current card it takes like 20 seconds to process the picture. :)

Does this look ok? - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transcend-16GB-SDHC-Class-Memory/dp/B002WE4HE2

Or should I spend £34 on a sandisk one?

Thanks!
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I use one of those in my D300s. Works perfectly, and seems to keep up fine when shooting with it as my backup. Downloads nice and quick, too!:thumbs:
 
It states in the user manual that if you have NR on this can normally take the same amount of time as the exposure. So I don't think the card is the problem.

For what it's worth I'm using a transcend 8GB class 6 at the moment in my new 60D but have one of those class 10 16gb cards on it's way. I don't have any problems with the class 6 though.
 
Yeah, the problem isn't the memory card - the image from a 30 second exposure is the same size as a 1/2000 second shot.

The reason it takes so long is that you have long exposure noise reduction on so the camera takes a 'blank' image of the same length so it can use it to remove hot spots from the image.

edit: The card probably won't make too much difference in your everyday shooting as the camera can't necessarily write as fast as the card can, it should be quicker to download to the computer though. Also, 16gb is very large which may result in you using it as your general storage media which is dangerous in case you lose it or it breaks, IMHO it is better to get more smaller cards. That said, I have the 8gb version of that card and it works fine.
 
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Although this is not related to the OP's question.

I have one of those cards and it works great! Will be ordering another one soon so that I have a spare (backup if one goes wrong).

Taking pic's if full RAW I only get 500 photos. This for me on a day trip is not enough...
 
sandisk extreme III's is what i used to have and there fantastic!

got the CF version now on my 50D
 
Generally speaking the higher the class of SD card the faster it can transfer data. Whether you'd see much difference in normal usage though is another matter and the higher class cards tend to be very expensive.

Long exposures take a fair bit of processing time anyway, especially if you have noise reduction enabled. A Sandisk should be plenty good enough unless you really want to shell out that sort of money.
 
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