D500 memory u1 vs u3

arvindsingh

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Hi
I was gonna buy a nikon d500 but im a little confused regarding the memory, I'm not too much in to 4 k video but do Ch (ie y going for d500) but the the que now to me is should i go for the sandisk extreme pro 64gb u1 or the sandisk extreme pro 64gb u3 micro sd(as u1 is cheaper), will it make ne difference in Ch mode & will it help in 10 fps pls suggest

Thx..


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Moab Man

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Last weekend I photographed a high flying BMX competition. I had both an XQD card and a 95 meg per second SD card. I found that the SD card had no problem keeping up and clearing the buffer. I have no hesitation in saying you can use a high speed SD card and be happy. The SD card I use is a Hoodman 256 meg per second card, but the 95 meg per second never slowed me.
 

arvindsingh

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Last weekend I photographed a high flying BMX competition. I had both an XQD card and a 95 meg per second SD card. I found that the SD card had no problem keeping up and clearing the buffer. I have no hesitation in saying you can use a high speed SD card and be happy. The SD card I use is a Hoodman 256 meg per second card, but the 95 meg per second never slowed me.

Thx for the tip , but is ur 95 mb card U1 or U3?


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lokatz

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Hi Arvind, I just shot two test series with my D500 at Ch / 10 shots per second. With a Lexar U1 card (16GB, 95 MBit/s), I got 27 continuous shots before the camera slowed down. When I turned it off afterwards, it took about 10 seconds before it was done writing the pictures to the card and ready to turn off.

With a Lexar U3 card (32GB, 300 MBit/s), I got 49 continuous shots before the camera slowed down. When I turned it off afterwards, there was no delay. In other words, you get a much higher number of burst shots and writing them to the card is much faster, so the camera is ready again much sooner with the U3 card.

Hope this helps.
 

lokatz

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I should add that I was shooting RAW. You would get many more continuous shots with JPEG - I assume 200 with both, U1 and U3.
 

arvindsingh

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I should add that I was shooting RAW. You would get many more continuous shots with JPEG - I assume 200 with both, U1 and U3.

Even I'm shooting in raw. But some people have got upto 40 shots with u1 in scandisk ext pro lexar memory's have been giving issues to some in d500. Btw thx for the reply it helped a lot


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arvindsingh

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Hi Arvind, I just shot two test series with my D500 at Ch / 10 shots per second. With a Lexar U1 card (16GB, 95 MBit/s), I got 27 continuous shots before the camera slowed down. When I turned it off afterwards, it took about 10 seconds before it was done writing the pictures to the card and ready to turn off.

With a Lexar U3 card (32GB, 300 MBit/s), I got 49 continuous shots before the camera slowed down. When I turned it off afterwards, there was no delay. In other words, you get a much higher number of burst shots and writing them to the card is much faster, so the camera is ready again much sooner with the U3 card.

Hope this helps.

I will be going for 1 XQD card on nxt sale then will keep the scandisk only for the backup


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