Memory card
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Horoscope Fish
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Based on your description I'm assuming you have one of the SoCal Trade cards? In theory, the card will work but I know very little about the brand except that their prices are usually "cock an eyebrow" worthy. Personally I'd suggest you simply suck it up and pay for SanDisk memory but you're not asking for my opinion, you're asking if the card you have will work in your camera, and the short answer is yes.
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sonicbuffalo_RIP
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It should work, but for how long, who knows?
As such 64GB is an over kill. I bought a 32GB card for my D3300 and it can hold over 1600 RAW images. I can never imagine when I will shoot so many images even over a three day period. At 16MP you would have space for over 4200 images. What that means is, that if you ever fill up the card, it will take ages to read and transfer the data. In your case a couple of 16GB 45mbps cards would be just right.
I normally desist from buying and/or recommending non mainline cards. Though they offer a tremendous financial advantage, if they get corrupted you loose all your images, which are worth more than what you save. Any way if you have bought the card, it will run, but as some one commented "how long". Get at least one Sandisk 16gb 45mbps card, and backup your 64GB card as often as you can.
I normally desist from buying and/or recommending non mainline cards. Though they offer a tremendous financial advantage, if they get corrupted you loose all your images, which are worth more than what you save. Any way if you have bought the card, it will run, but as some one commented "how long". Get at least one Sandisk 16gb 45mbps card, and backup your 64GB card as often as you can.
A large capacity cheap memory card is a disaster waiting to happen. You are better off spending a few dollars more for a reputable/reliable brand. I only use SanDisk and with my newer cameras I only use the Extreme Pro UHS-I cards. A 32GB card is under $50. I have never (knock on wood) had a card fail or get corrupted.
If you do have any issues with the card, I'd recommend getting a much smaller gigabyte SanDisk brand card. But I wish you luck on the card you bought!
PS. Welcome to nikonites!
This.... From now on I will only be using 16gb cards... No fun when your $30 32gb card takes a crap on you...
It should work from what I understand, but it's way larger than practical in my opinion.
Cards can only be too small. Too big? You will only have space for more. Yes the time to read and transfer also increases, but that is all. The only concern with huge capacity is that if you are a bit lazy in transferring your images to the computer and your card goes bad, you have lost a lot of images.
Computers (and this includes cameras) have a top limit on how much memory they can access. Exceed that, and you're wasting money.