SDHC card for M8?

[Firefly]

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Hi folks, guess this might be a question asked before but as the title says "SDHC card for M8?" I am not looking for the biggest or fastest, just a reliable trouble free and easily obtainable card here in the UK. I understand some cards have been known to give trouble in the past although maybe this has been overstated?

Thanks in advance, Rob

[lct]

The M8 has pretty well the same performance with fast and slow cards. A good Sandisk 45 MB/s or same will be enough.

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[rjans]

I have used Sandisk, Lexar and Transcend without any problems with my M8.

 

Regards

[Firefly]

May I ask what sizes, there seems to be advice not to go over 32GB, some say smaller, what would happen if you tried a 64GB card? Cheers Rob

[rjans]

I always used 8 gb cards.

 

Best

[lct]

8GB indeed. With 16GB cards, let alone 32 or 64, the total frame number will always exceed the maximum of the top LCD frame counter (999).

[Firefly]

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Thanks everyone, any particular speed to go for or avoid? Any dodgy makes? Cheers Rob

[mjh]

May I ask what sizes, there seems to be advice not to go over 32GB, some say smaller, what would happen if you tried a 64GB card?

SDHC is limited to 32 GB max. 64 GB would require SDXC cards which are not supported. At about 10 MB per raw file 8 or 16 GB should be plenty.

[Jeff S]

Consider also potential for card damage or loss; I'd rather have more cards with fewer pics. Of course there are various security and back-up measures one can take, but every bit helps.

 

Jeff

[Philinflash]

8GB indeed. With 16GB cards, let alone 32 or 64, the total frame number will always exceed the maximum of the top LCD frame counter (999).

I don't mind the fact that the 16GB card greatly exceeds the frame counter digital display. I do not start to worry about card capacity until I am in two-digit territory. On the other side, it is nice to shoot and shoot and shoot on the 32 Gb card for so many frames as it will accomodate. I am unable to detect any performance (read/write) downside so my attitude is "why not?". The fewer cycles of swapping cards and downloading images the better. It used to be with the smaller cards that I was always full-up when it was least convenient. Now, I swap cards when it is convenient to me.

[lct]

Consider also potential for card damage or loss; I'd rather have more cards with fewer pics

+1

[pippy]

Thanks everyone, any particular speed to go for or avoid? Any dodgy makes? Cheers Rob

I'm very new to the M-digi world so take all the following as coming from a 'newbie' but FWIW I conducted a basic test with 4x and 10x cards in both 8Gb and 16Gb sizes and from two makers which showed no appreciable difference in write-speed across the whole set.

Where the 10x cards really scored, however, was transfer-rate to laptop.

 

Just my impression. Probably better to see if anyone more 'versed' has had a different experience.

 

Philip.

[Firefly]

Thanks, I have purchased a pair of 8gb cards, regards Rob

[gfspencer]

Consider also potential for card damage or loss; I'd rather have more cards with fewer pics. Of course there are various security and back-up measures one can take, but every bit helps.

 

Jeff

 

+2

[nathanrupert]

FYI Jimmy at Leica Mayfair has told me that the M8 only saves at 15mb/sec, so no use buying faster cards except for card -> computer transfer speed.

[pgk]

May I ask what sizes, there seems to be advice not to go over 32GB, some say smaller, what would happen if you tried a 64GB card? Cheers Rob

Mine works fine with Sandisk 16 & 32gb cards. No problems. They aren't terribly fast cards though (the 16 is 15Mb/s, I've just extracted it and checked). Despite there being a risk of data loss if the card fails, I find that large cards can take such a lot of photos that one card loaded into the camera will usually suffice for long enough for a decent trip away - so there is less risk of actually losing loose cards.....

[lct]

Unless you lose the camera with its thousands pics...

[pgk]

Its all about risk management:eek: - I'm more likely to lose loose cards I hope;).

 

Actually, using a large card and frequently downloading it makes good sense to me.....

[leika]

Sorry for kicking this subject, but I wonder what your writespeed is, and in what setting?

In DNG+JPEG mine takes almost up to 10sec!

Thought only my old digilux2 was slow..

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[Lenshacker]

The camera is doing a lot of extra work to produce the Jpeg file. Try it on DNG only if you need speed.