I need a nice fast card

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I have a couple of Sandisk Extreme cards (Extreme III I think).

I was taking some burst shots at the weekend and found that the buffer was full after 6 shots, absolutely no good to me whatsoever as it then took a few seconds to sort itself out, meaning I missed some shots.

I'm looking for a nice quick card that I can rattle off a dozen frames at a time with no buffering problems, can anyone recommend anything? A couple of 4GB cards or an 8GB card will do me.
 
any chance you can put up with shooting jpg rather than RAW, or even shooting just RAW not RAW +jpg will save a bit, if it means you get the shot, it may be whats needed for that situation.

I dont think there is any card classified above a class 6 minimum write speed, so above what you have its all marketing lead max speeds rather than independent tests to unified standards.
 
Page 262 of the manual shows how many shots the buffer can handle before filling up. Most of the time, it's the camera that creates the bottleneck, especially when shooting raw or raw + JPEG. A faster card might help but probably not as much as you'd like it to. Fine, large JPEG will increase the number of shots before the buffer's full from 7 to 25.
 
Nod said:
Page 262 of the manual shows how many shots the buffer can handle before filling up. Most of the time, it's the camera that creates the bottleneck, especially when shooting raw or raw + JPEG. A faster card might help but probably not as much as you'd like it to. Fine, large JPEG will increase the number of shots before the buffer's full from 7 to 25.
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Thanks, never realised that.

The manual says it should be 9, but I notice it goes down if High ISO NR is on when above 800, which it was. I must admit I've become so used to shooting RAW I don't like the thought of going JPEG unless the shoot isn't that important, but as this was a Christening I wanted to have more options when PPing.
 
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