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Sandisk, Transcend and Lexar. No problems with any!
Recommended memory cards?
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General consensus is if you buy from Amazon, make sure the order is fulfilled by Amazon and not a random seller from the marketplace. If you're buying from Ebay then good luck
I bought a Canon LP6 battery from Amazon themselves a couple of years back; when I got my 5D mkiii and inserted that battery, it showed up as non-genuine. Upon closer inspection, the blue label on the back had a very subtly different shade to all my others.
I contacted Amazon and they refunded me immediately and didn't even want it returned because its a battery product and should be disposed of.
Sandisk and Kingston.
Always used to use only Sandisk, then I thought I'd try Kingston as they offered similar/same performance for quite a bit cheaper. So far so good! I always carry a bucket load of spares to a job anyway and shoot to 2 cards simultaneously to give me contingency.
Always used to use only Sandisk, then I thought I'd try Kingston as they offered similar/same performance for quite a bit cheaper. So far so good! I always carry a bucket load of spares to a job anyway and shoot to 2 cards simultaneously to give me contingency.
Thanks guys, I've bought a 64GB Sandisk Ultra 30MB/s, sold by Amazon. Can't believe how much the prices have come down over the years. Although now my 16GB card seems to be working again so I think I'll use the second card slot to store JPEGs so they can be easily viewed on someone elses computer if needed.
It'll do the job just fine for a filesystem check on older Windows PC's (if you still have one about that old!).
However, if you want memory cards, as the OP asked, Sandisk products are much better suited to the task.
Sandisk just announced a new 512GB extreme pro
Imagine losing that lot in one go?
I think I'd be physically sick
Imagine losing that lot in one go?
I think I'd be physically sick
Not only that but buying a replacement isn't cheap either! $729 for one
I used to work for a company that wrote an SD software stack and it was generally considered one of the best around. The developers were always keen to point out that SanDisk were the only company that properly implemented the SD specifications. Everyone else did a poor job - either to save money or due to incompetence. Transcend were particularly bad.
I've stuck with SanDisk cards ever since.
I've stuck with SanDisk cards ever since.
Wow,...how much is that bad boy ! ?
Price mentioned was $729 but judging by the usual conversion rate of US to UK prices, that'll be around £729 >.>
Realistically I guess maybe around £500-550? I doubt many DSLR shooters will get one though for fear of losing that many shots. I think these huge cards are for 4k video shooters
thats exactly it
if i got anything like that id just get lazy and let it fill up!
looks like 1£ per GB ish. tbh, thats not too bad!
I just had to send two 32GB SanDisk Extreme cards back to Amazon as they were obviously fake. Was receiving 1.5MB/s write speeds. That's slower than my 64GB SanDisk Ultra which is the slower version which was getting 25MB/s write speeds. I double checked that the order was direct from Amazon and not fulfilled by them/from a 3rd party. When I spoke to them they said that I wasn't the only one to have complained. Weird that Amazon are getting their memory cards from non-legit sources....
Makes me think how Amazon get hold of this kind of stock. I know they have very competitive price and are generally much cheaper in this kind of product but no way should they be getting fake goods in the first place!
I use Amazon heavily - makes me feel angry when this happens because I put so much business their way and they do things like this.