SD Card advice please.

[PlacidCasual]

Hi Peeps

I would like some advice on what SD cards I should buy.

I have a Nikon D40 with standard lens and a Class 6 4Gb Sandisk Extreme SD Card. I use it mostly on holiday , I bought it a few years ago cheaply hoping to find the time to develop some photography skill.

I have just bought a Nikon Coolpix AW110 water proof shock proof compact camera/video recorder to capture pics of our new born on something better than a smart phone but more portable than the D40.

I've done a little research on SD cards but have limited experience. I don't know if my current card is slowing down my shooting with the D40. I also don't know what I need to capture the Full Hd on the Coolpix.

I was thinking of getting a twin pack of 32Gb cards or maybe a 64Gb and 16Gb giving me a good video capacity on the Coolpix and huge capacity on the D40.

I assumed I should aim for class10 but don't really know. I'm not ultra price conscious but don't want to ridiculously over specify.

The pictures and video will potentially be viewed on a 55" full HD plasma from my NAS so I will probably record at max resolution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[kefan77]

2x this: Sandisk 32GB 45MB/S SD Extreme

 

[PhotoPixels]

My memory have them @ £23 ** no competitor links ** but also worth doing a search, as even the likes of Dixons have offers now & again.

Edit; I'd stay clear of fleabay etc, there are reports of quite a few dodgy cards being sold.

 

[JRJ]

As photopixels states Ebay is full of useless copies, stick with Mymemory or Amazon but ensure their fulfilled by Amazon and not a marketplace seller.

Pesonally I use these ** no competitor links ** Holds over 500 RAW files from my Canon 550d or 2000 18mp jpegs, never had a problem with with speed when using video either.

Split your cards and have several smaller cards just in case you lose one, less data lost.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Thanks for the advice guys. I've ordered a 16Gb and a 32Gb class 10 30MBs San disk ultra. The savings for slower cards were barely worth it, but the next steps up got really expensive really quick.