Digital Camera Memory Cards
 

I've just bought a Panasonic FZ50 Digital camera and am looking to get a 4Gb SDHC card on which to store my images and any video I take.

There are apparently different classes of SDHC card but sometimes Class 2 on one brand is faster than Class 4 on another. My camera will only work with cards bearing the SDHC logo and adhering to the SDHC standard.

Can anybody recommend from experience a good card please that can read and write the SDHC quickly?

Re: Digital Camera Memory Cards
 

How about a Sandisk Extreme 3 2Gb SD? should be able to get ~ 400 photos unless you are saving as raw.

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Alternatively, if you can wait until 18 Feb, you can get a 4Gb SDHC class 6 Extreme III.

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I bought a Transcend 4Gb 150X from Amazon for about £27 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transend-4Gb...219928&sr=1-20 for my Casio and it works fine. Not sure what the difference is with SDHC but they have a 4Gb SDHC class 6 for £7.34 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transcend-Fl...2219832&sr=1-2. Not sure what kind of reputation the make has but as I said, I've had no problems.
Hope that's some help

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I'd also personally reccommend the "SANDISK SD Card Extreme III", I use one with my Panasonic FZ18, and it reads/writes very quickly :)

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The actual read/write speed that you get will depend on the card AND the camera. Some people have spent a lot of time benchmarking various combinations. Here's two lots of results:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...e.asp?cid=6007
http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/

If you can't find the FZ50 in the database then try to pick a similar camera from the same manufacturer.

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Can't help you on the card details, but the FZ50 is a fantastic camera. I have had a play with it and will be making a purchase next month.

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http://www.mymemory.co.uk/memory/San...croMate/Reader


Not a bad price :)

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Thanks for the posts, guys.

Found this 4Gb SDHC Sandisk Extreme III on Amazon for £23.70-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SANDISK-EXTR...2503160&sr=8-2

Hopefully this will do the job.

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Taken from HERE

The SD Association has created and defined 3 speed
classes to help you identify speed and performance
capabilities/minimum requirements of SD/SDHC cards
and the host products. The SD Speed Class Ratings
specify a minimum sustained write speed for SDHC
cards (Class 2: 2 MB/s; Class 4: 4 MB/s; Class 6: 6
MB/s*).

if you shoot in burst mode, you want a faster card really, so the buffer won't run out as quick.

Re: Digital Camera Memory Cards
 

What card do you suggest?

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class 6 is the fastest for sustained speeds with 6Mb/s being obtained, but you'll likely pay more for it!

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Yet the Play.com advertises the same card as Amazon and Play.com says that the card does 20Mb/s.That's more than enough as the camera only needs 10Mb/s.

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My next card will by a eye-fi 2gb (or 4gb if they do it) I'm sick of carting round my cable everywhere.

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I would imagine that is read speed? the class goes by the sustained write speed, which is the important bit if you are shooting in burst mode.

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Well according to this review its the read/write speed.
http://www.onlinememory.co.uk/sandis...der-p-738.html

So it looks like it can cope with burst speed too!!