What's the SD card brand of choice when it comes to maximizing the 3 fps "until the card is full" feature of the XS camera? Have just purchased the camera yesterday. I also would like to know if any internal camera setting need be applied to further reach this rate of capture? Thanks
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Brand of SD card for XS? Advice.
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tkbslc
Forum Pro
Just about anything you'd find at a real store.
Sandisk
PNY
Lexar
Kingston
I've also used PQI and Apacer with good luck. Don't worry too much about speed, it doesn't matter that much since pictures are taken to the buffer first, not the card.
Sandisk
PNY
Lexar
Kingston
I've also used PQI and Apacer with good luck. Don't worry too much about speed, it doesn't matter that much since pictures are taken to the buffer first, not the card.
Glenn_Sydney
Senior Member
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I think the speed of the card only matters if you are using burst mode. And even then, only if you exhaust the buffer first. For RAW on the XS, from memory, the buffer fills up with 5 shots on burst mode. For me, thats plenty. Depends on what you shoot and if you use burst mode often. I dont use burst mode much so high speed cards are a waste of dosh.
Speed of the card also makes a difference when downloading photos. Faster card = faster download.
I think the speed of the card only matters if you are using burst mode. And even then, only if you exhaust the buffer first. For RAW on the XS, from memory, the buffer fills up with 5 shots on burst mode. For me, thats plenty. Depends on what you shoot and if you use burst mode often. I dont use burst mode much so high speed cards are a waste of dosh.
Speed of the card also makes a difference when downloading photos. Faster card = faster download.
Sarrk
Member
If you shoot RAW, then you will fill up quickly; if you shoot in medium-ish sized JPG then you shouldn't max out your buffer
The camera is going to write fast. Really fast.
If you want to shoot 3FPS in RAW for as long as you can, look into the 30MB/s brand of Sandisk cards, thats the fastest (consumer-wise) speed for SD currently available and it shouldn't hit you too hard (relatively...)
The camera is going to write fast. Really fast.
If you want to shoot 3FPS in RAW for as long as you can, look into the 30MB/s brand of Sandisk cards, thats the fastest (consumer-wise) speed for SD currently available and it shouldn't hit you too hard (relatively...)
BuffaloWolff
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tkbslc
Forum Pro
Even then, a $50 card over a $10 one gets you 1 or 2 extra frames before buffer fills. Not worth it IMO.If you shoot RAW, then you will fill up quickly; if you shoot in
medium-ish sized JPG then you shouldn't max out your buffer
The camera is going to write fast. Really fast.
If you want to shoot 3FPS in RAW for as long as you can, look into
the 30MB/s brand of Sandisk cards, thats the fastest (consumer-wise)
speed for SD currently available and it shouldn't hit you too hard
(relatively...)
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