Which SD Cards To Buy | DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY

CFexpress? V30? V60? V90? Which SD Cards should you buy???

Here are the cards I actually own in mostly 128GB options:
// V30 //

// V60 //

// V90 //

// CFexpress Type A //

[KevinUnger-ob]

I feel like 95% of photographers need to watch this video. So helpful!

[danielgontar]

I want to shake your hand for the video. Thank you for the education I appreciate it.

[VST]

Of course, a very helpful video to help select the best card suitable for the camera.

[casualplayer.]

Amazing video for camera noobies. So helpful and informative!

[MRPR]

Thank you for making this I was just looking to get some new cards, great timing and information!

[MauriceSnaps]

Great and informative video! Glad I purchased the right specs for my needs without knowing, haha :D

[magnolivision]

Good information about the buffer and how many seconds it takes to clear. I'm shooting concerts and I'm always missing shots because of the buffer. V90 is the way to go for me.

[matthieuzglurg]

super good bang for buck that I found was the V60 cards. They're generally barely any more expensive than the V30 cards, but can generally be a lot faster than basic V30 cards without costing as much as V90 cards.

I use a couple of V60 cards to record 4K at 200Mbps on my X-H1 (about 25MBps) and it was rock solid while the camera froze up a few times using V30 cards because of the card being too slow (probably because of thermal throttling of the memory modules that lost perforamnce as the card heated up)

It cost me just a few bucks more to upgrade to a V60 and never run into those issues again, even with long record times and heavy heat output from the camera. Maybe that was just a problem on this card specifically, or my camera specifically though

[jonathanscherer]

You can get two Lexar 256MB V60 cards that are their gold variety for $150 right now. Even procapture on my OM-1 won't need more than that. It took a lot of research to figure this out. I'd always had V30 cards before. I wish I'd had your video to explain this all to me before! Thanks for the info, sir. I'm sure many people will really appreciate it.

[gordonbunker]

Thanks Benj, really helpful info here!

[benjohnsoncreative]

Great video, super helpful, learned a lot!

[theotherdai]

This is not a sexy topic, but you crafted this wonderful video for us because you care.
Thank you!

[naseeb]

I was searching about different types of cards just a couple of days ago. I'm so glad you made this video.

Benj, I hope you make a video about the Sony a6700.
I'm hoping to buy it when it's available. I would also like to know which card would be suitable for it if I wanted to get the most out of that camera. Would a v60 card be enough? Or would I have to spring for the v90 card?
And would 128gb be enough for video? I'm not planning to shoot very long videos, but I do want to create some short films and such. I am a photographer trying to get into video as well. Even though I have a lot of experience in photography, I have never shot any video with a mirrorless camera. Also I have never owned mirrorless camera, I have used them on shoots, but it was only for photography, so I don't know anything about which card to use for video and stuff.

[marcp.]

I buy SD Cards since 8 MB size, and i've had never a melon with Sandisk, Transcend, or Lexar SD Cards. But issues with Samsung EVO (into contrast with their SSDs, orange and white colored "EVO" series have been junk out of the box, DOA, in no camera working, it have been 32 & 64 GB SD cards.

[jpdj]

Correction. The speed indicated on the card in MB/s not only is "read" but also "burst" speed. Like old hard drives, cards have an I/O controller (computer executing firmware) in them with very fast "cache" memory. Burst speed references that I/O controller and the cache. With old hard drives, when you read something that is not in the cache any more, when you write more than the cache can hold, then you got down to "media speed" . This is what "sustained" references in the case of these cards.
A card that displays "30 MB/s" has that for read burst speed. It's C10 says that it can sustain a speed of 10 MB/s.
My CFexpress Type B cards can sustain write speeds of about 1, 500 MB/s and my camera is fast enough to be able to work with, benefit from, that. I generally don't need that but after a lot of images in a shoot need transfer to the computer environment, the sustained similar read speed in a Thunderbolt card reader means that I can quickly import the images into the beast workstation for processing.
In short: it's always "burst" if nothing was added and only "sustained" if explicitly stated

[hellobrandonscott]

We gave Madison Megan's old Rebel and couldn't figure out why none of my SD cards worked in it. Yep... TIL that it won't work with an sdXC card and needs a good old regular SD card.

[AadidevSooknananNXS]

Do you have any recommendations on the most reliable SD Card brands? Thank you for doing this video!

[MarcSR]

great i was just looking at buying new cards

[JoeCopenhaver]

Excellent info! Where are those card labels from?! 👀

[marshallr.]

me watching this video preparing for my soon to be delivered PentaxQ7 from 2013 😅