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Hiya all
What is the best and the biggest memory for a canon 80D
What is the best and the biggest memory for a canon 80D
Beginner Max memory card
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It's risky to use one large single memory card. If it gets corrupt, you'll lose a lose a lot of images.
Lots of little ones are better.
Lots of little ones are better.
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Risk is managed in many ways.
If you use lots of smaller cards, there’s more mechanical movement which is a possible point of failure, there’s also more cards to lose, ergo increasing the risk of loss.
It’s extremely rare to ‘lose’ an entire disk of images due to malfunction, I’ve only ever had 2 card failures, between those occasions I have lost a total of 5 images. Of the hundreds of thousands of images I’ve shot, it’s hardly a major concern.
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This will likely help:
https://www.cameramemoryspeed.com/canon-80d/sd-card-comparison/
Not sure what the maximum side is, that’s a manual job to find that out.
Looks like the SanDisk Extreme Pro 95mb/s come out top of the tests for speed. As long as you buy the cards from an approved sellers you shouldn’t get a fake (don’t trust ebay or amazon marketplace sellers). I think size will come down to cost .and what you are willing to pay (prices vary from £17 32GB to £119 256GB).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-l...olp_refurbished?ie=UTF8&condition=refurbished
Size to me depends on how many images you are going to take in one go. No point paying for a huge card tha5 holds thousands when you only take a few hundred images.
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Hopefully you have an answer now, but I would say the personality trait to want ‘the biggest and best’ is incompatible with a happy life and your new hobby.
Photography is a money pit, the ‘biggest and best’ sometimes costs £5000 more than something that’s 95% as good.
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