D-LUX5 /LX5 memory card - which one to buy?

[srivastava]

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My camera (LX5) is arriving any day ( depending on the weather in UK). I have gone for a white one as it is a gift for the wife and she definitely wanted a white colour. Of course, I am glad to be able to buy the camera, irrespective of the colour, as my DMC L1 is not very portable.

 

I hope to record videos at times though would predominantly would be shooting RAW.

 

I was thinking of buying a Sandisk 16GB Extreme Class 10 (30mb/s) card. However, it is not cheap at over £60.

 

Would a lesser speed card fulfill my requirements. What card do others use here?

 

many thanks in advance for your help!

 

Rajat

[Walt Calahan]

Get what you can afford. I use an older 16mb card that operates at a slower speed on my LX5. Works fine.

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[Digitom]

When I bought my D-Lux 5 I used an older 2 GB SD Card which is my "standard film" because I also own an older Digilux 2 and a Panasonic FZ-10 Bridge Camera and I want to use this cards in any of the cams. But last week I bought for test a Sandisk 4 GB SDHC card. But I can see no difference between the cards when taking photos, also HD video is no problem. So at the moment here in Germany the 2 and 4 GB SD cards are sold very cheap, so I use them, no more SDHC cards which are more expensive.

 

Another advantage of smaller storage capacity: IF the card fails, there are less photos lost.