Normal, high speed or very high speed SD card?

s-j-cooper_2

I have just bought a digital camera and am looking at the following 1gb sd cards. Is it worth me paying the extra for the really high speed card or should I get the high speed one? Or would the normal card be fine?

Viking - normal

My Memory - high speed

Peak - very high speed

Thanks in advance to those with the knowledge!

s-j-cooper_2

I have just found the peak one slightly cheaper at £20.19 delivered, so it is only £2.70 more expensive than the viking one.

It is available here: Peak

Has anyone used techfever.co.uk before?

jem16

s-j-cooper wrote:

I have just bought a digital camera and am looking at the following 1gb sd cards. Is it worth me paying the extra for the really high speed card or should I get the high speed one? Or would the normal card be fine?

Viking - normal

My Memory - high speed

Peak - very high speed

Thanks in advance to those with the knowledge!

The speed of the card may be important depending on which digital camera you have. For example my Canon camera will allow video recording of length up to the capacity of the card but only if I use a high speed card. If I use a normal card the length of the video recording is limited to either 1 minute or 3 minutes, depending on resolution.

John_Gray

If you wish to take shots very rapidly, you may find that the speed of writing to the card could be an important factor -- but there are others, and you wouldn't really know whether it made any real difference without testing them in your camera... (Unless there's a specific review, that is!).

John

s-j-cooper_2

I think I'll pay the £2.70 extra and get the 150x speed one. I researched the company selling it and they seem to have good customer reviews too.

s-j-cooper_2

I would just like to say that I ordered the sd card from techfever on Sunday evening at it arrived this morning, so I can recommend them!

Cardew

Having done a search I came upon this thread.

I have a Canon camcorder with a camera facility which can take multiple still photos when the shutter is pressed – several a second.

I have bought a cheap 256 Mb SD card and whilst it copes with single photos, multiple photos cause an error display which can only be cleared by formatting the SD card. I suspected that it was because the card could not cope with the speed and this thread seems to confirm this.

However how can I tell what specification of SD Card I require to overcome this problem?