Don’t buy the wrong SD card (Memory Card Tutorial)

Lexar really sh!t in my mouth on a shoot once. It was a V60 card and should have been overkill for my R10, but it quit working with a message saying that I've exceeded the bit rate for that card! Hanging my head in shame I got my ProGrade V60 equivalent and had no problems thereafter.

thank you so much, it helped me a lot

I no longer remove cards from the camera, I use a cable to the camera: I noticed that Sandisk SD cards were scraping the edges of the slot and shaving particles of plastic off. I changed brands after I noticed

The only card failures I've had have been physical failures: The ribs between the contacts have broken or the write lock has broken. So I have been buying slow Sony Tough cards, which remove both points of failure I've actually suffered.

Ill use samsung evo white cards as backups and dark blue as main

No way would any sensible person keep several days of shooting on the one card, what if the card fails or if it gets lost.

It's not a question of IF your memory card or drive will fail. It's a matter of WHEN they will fail.

I've had issues when writing raw + jpeg and then only removing the raw files. After this, my card seems busy and acts weird. Has anyone else had this issue? Thanks.

Funny thing… I’m shooting with cheap €22,- 128gb Micro sd cards with a adapter… have done about 1.000.000 Photho’s in my life as an professional photographer. Never had a failure… nowadays I have a canon R6 and I can shoot raw burst of 140-180 photo’s… (in my professional life I’ve never had made more than 15 photo bursts/ had more than 50 in buffer) and it was professional working time on some cheap sd-cards… it al depends on the writing speed🤷🏼‍♂️ if I do jpeg (just did is once for a test, I shoot raw🙃) I can just hold the button until the card is full. Witch is pretty useless in reallife.

Side note: I have done some research about the writing and reading speeds, 90/170 and the cards are from a well known company like SanDisk, Samsung etc

im looking memory card for my 1st camera. But this is my problem for canon m100. I want to buy sandisk extrme but im also afraid that extreme card will useless bcz m100 cant perform 4k.

Great info and presnted like it should be

Wonderful, you answer my question! (I needed for a7iii)

Do some cards generate more heat than others?

i was in Istanbul 2019 2 sony a6500,, both expensive cards cards failed ...no names ..so i had to hunt down new cards i ended up in a phone shop ..they only had micro cards the name i've never heard of before .but on the bottom in small writing ...microsoft...10 uk pounds each..now almost 2023 still going strong..

yeah, i did this too, Sony G memory card very expensive, recommand using Sony M with 277Mb speed 256GB storage.

Let me get this straight...you do not format your card because you want to carry it as a working backup?

You are in the wrong business my friend. And I strongly disagree with your memory card opinions. Good lord... please dont give bad info based on the way you use cheap memory cards as having any weight next to what us real professionals use.

The number one place sd cards get abused as by accident washing machines runs. Your comments about formatting and the photos still being there are laughable. You have been watching too much tlc or discovery fbi tv.

For your own good, pretend you never watched this video and get your information from somewhere else. Anywhere else for that matter... wow.

p.s. using one memory card for a major shoot at 256gig is about THE dumbest thing I have ever heard. Lose that card and you are screwed . You even tell us this after you say use one card! wtf are you talking about ,hahaha and who in the hell ever uses the locking mechanism? 🙈

can always use H2testw to test the read and write speeds of SD cards and harddrives

i found even fake SD cards can be pretty fast

Excellent, informative video.

My old camera uses CF cards. I'm thinking of getting an adaptor for micro SD cards.
I auto backup to Dropbox and Onedrive when I put card in pc.

Personall, I don't think huge capacity cards are a good idea. Why? If one big card fails, you're in a bad spot. OR... if you lose a nearly full large capacity card... well, it could be a whole days' work.

Better you use smaller cards and more of them. Perhaps, do one subject on one card. If you have one subject on one card and the card fails or gets lost, you have lost one project only.

In the film days, I did not keep all of the film I shot in one place for the same reason and I don't do that with cards either.

Losing a whole days work, no matter the reason would be a nightmare.

Bought a Gigastone SD card that shorted out my camera causing it to heat up inside..

Do you have a reccomendation for cards in the Canon R7?

What are people's opinions of using the smaller SD cards with an adapter?

Tony i have a qyestion how easy or difficult is it to strip down a lens. I have a tamaron 200 to 400 ld de74. That has domp on rhe inside. Spares are no longer available its not been made for 20 years.
I have asked several people in my locality, but just turn their nose up at it. Getting cold feet. So i am just left wirh the choice of doing notthing or do it myself.
Would i need any special tools, and could i get the plans an specifications for this lens, in order clean it off.
Its like some one has put finger marks on the inside of the lens.
What are your thoughts on rhis, i cant use it as it is, but it is a very good lens.

Thank you

Thank you Tony and Chelsea. I'm learning so much from you both.

Don't know who this is talking to us, but this is information makes me what to buy the fellow a cup of good coffee. tHanks for the video

1Tb Is here

Your Video's Are So Much Help !! Think For Taking The Time To Make Them..GregM From EXPLORING DARKNESS.

Can you use 2 cards with 2 different speeds at the same time? One for slot 1 and the second as the backup (slot 2?) Or do the card have to match write speeds?

Thanks for this

Sony overpriced trash sandisk is 4x better ans cheaper 😎

How long generally would you keep the files on the card as a backup? Is it fine to delete them after they've been saved a couple places and or uploaded? 🤔

My Nikon D3100 formats the SD card and makes it unrecognizable by windows, tried everything there is.

thank you for your knowledge about cameras.

Where did you get the camera case?

What's the point of using an expensive 35mm camera any more? Now EVERYONE has a camera at their fingertips......their so-called "Smart Phone". It can do nearly 90% of what a 35mm camera can do.

Thanks for cards and brown case for camera, love it ;-)

I need some help. I have a Cannon Rebel t3, it is saying "no SD card" (as if it isn't reading) but I can insert it into my laptop & it will read. could my card be damaged? I've saw somewhere that that could be my issue.

hey man is a V30 san disk extreme (the black card) good enough for 4k 120?

Can you please help? I need a memory card for a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX200V but I don’t know what will work. I want to record video in its highest quality

Hello Tony. Can you help me with something? Newbie here. You used for some time an Canon EOS 7D, as I do. I just upgraded the lens to a 400 mm f/5.6 prime and my CF card doesn't take more than a 5 frame burst! I love bird photography. What is the best card for me? The one I use is ask 32GB Kingston CF Ultimate 600x. Please help. Thanks Diogo

im not even a pro, and have only done it for about 4 years and I had two memory cards fail

seems like you'd be able to put an entire videogame on an sd card🤔

Thank you

SD cards suck clearly