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<blockquote data-quote="Mycenius" data-source="post: 171029" data-attributes="member: 14714"><p>Any card that came with your camera will just be whatever the store has chosen to supply (they won't be part of any official Nikon 'kit') - they almost always are low spec (i.e. slow) cards, in your case a Class 4 (which is about 4MB/s or less), and these aren't really very useful for DSLR photography if you want to do continuous shooting or bursts (they are just designed to be cheap static storage in devices like phones, MP3 players, etc)... The camera stores include them solely for marketing (so there is a memory card with the camera) and probably only cost the store $5 or something! Its the same all round the world (whether US, UK, NZ/AU, Asia, etc)...</p><p></p><p>The Class 10 one should be okay in theory but the speed listed for that <span style="color: #333333">Sony SF8NX/TQM 8GB SDHC Class 10 when I looked it up is is only about 22MB/s which is still pretty slow (and the <em>actual</em> write speed when in the camera will be even slower than that)... So its not really much good either...</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">So you can see the Class 10 rating is pretty meaningless - you basically need something that's Class 10 and has a rated write speed of at least 45MB/s-90MB/s (or more)... Put the Class 10 Sony aside in your bag as your emergency spare/last resort back-up and get a good 16MB or 32MB SanDisk (Extreme Pro 'Gold Label' rated 95MB/s, or 'Extreme' or 'Extreme Pro' rated 45MB/s) or a Lexar "Professional" 400x (60MB/s) or 600x (90MB/s) SDHC card... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> You should notice a big difference...</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">Use that Class 4 one for something else - like your Mobile Phone, Or MP3 Player or for your Car's Stereo or whatever... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">P.S. Class roughly equates to MB/s speed - Class 2 usually means 2MB/s, Class 4 means ~4MB/s, Class 6 6MB/s, Class 10 originally meant 10MB/s-15MB/s...</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mycenius, post: 171029, member: 14714"] Any card that came with your camera will just be whatever the store has chosen to supply (they won't be part of any official Nikon 'kit') - they almost always are low spec (i.e. slow) cards, in your case a Class 4 (which is about 4MB/s or less), and these aren't really very useful for DSLR photography if you want to do continuous shooting or bursts (they are just designed to be cheap static storage in devices like phones, MP3 players, etc)... The camera stores include them solely for marketing (so there is a memory card with the camera) and probably only cost the store $5 or something! Its the same all round the world (whether US, UK, NZ/AU, Asia, etc)... The Class 10 one should be okay in theory but the speed listed for that [COLOR=#333333]Sony SF8NX/TQM 8GB SDHC Class 10 when I looked it up is is only about 22MB/s which is still pretty slow (and the [I]actual[/I] write speed when in the camera will be even slower than that)... So its not really much good either...[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]So you can see the Class 10 rating is pretty meaningless - you basically need something that's Class 10 and has a rated write speed of at least 45MB/s-90MB/s (or more)... Put the Class 10 Sony aside in your bag as your emergency spare/last resort back-up and get a good 16MB or 32MB SanDisk (Extreme Pro 'Gold Label' rated 95MB/s, or 'Extreme' or 'Extreme Pro' rated 45MB/s) or a Lexar "Professional" 400x (60MB/s) or 600x (90MB/s) SDHC card... :) You should notice a big difference...[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]Use that Class 4 one for something else - like your Mobile Phone, Or MP3 Player or for your Car's Stereo or whatever... :) P.S. Class roughly equates to MB/s speed - Class 2 usually means 2MB/s, Class 4 means ~4MB/s, Class 6 6MB/s, Class 10 originally meant 10MB/s-15MB/s...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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