55x vs 150x sd memory card

[faycotrophyhunter]

i'm not too educated in all this fancy stuff and i was just wonderin how much difference it makes in the memory cards that are put in digital game cameras. i was at cabelas a few weeks ago and seen several different speed memory cards. they had a 55x and a 150 x sd card. would that be something to do with the qualiity of the pics or would it be for more like for videos? any and all info would be greatly appreciated. i'm thinkin about buyin a new camera and memory card this weekend and thought maybe it would be best to know more about the cards before i buy one.

[texag93]

Get your SD cards at WalMart or Radio Shack, much cheaper. Not sure on the 55x thing. none of my Sandisk cards have that on them.

[faycotrophyhunter]

yeah i looked at walmart today and they were cheaper but i dont mind spending a little extra money if it is for a good reason. i was thinkin that maybe the 150x was the way to go but i dont wanna spend the money if its not needed.

[onetime]

ttt I have the same questions

[doncom]

Those numbers represent the read/write speed. Picture quality is controlled by the camera not the card. In a trail cam and many DSLR's that have memory buffers you won't see any difference in the photos with either of those cards.

The difference comes when you download (or read) the pictures to a computer. The 150X will transfer roughly three times faster than the 55X.

As far as price. Take a look at www.newegg.com They are consistently the cheapest place I ever see for memory and a great company to do business with.

[Live2Hunt]

DonCom is right, but there is another aspect to the faster cards. When your a professional photographer you will take pictures very quickly in rapid succession. A slow card cannot process the data fast enough and you will miss shots.

[faycotrophyhunter]

Those numbers represent the read/write speed. Picture quality is controlled by the camera not the card. In a trail cam and many DSLR's that have memory buffers you won't see any difference in the photos with either of those cards.

The difference comes when you download (or read) the pictures to a computer. The 150X will transfer roughly three times faster than the 55X.

As far as price. Take a look at www.newegg.com They are consistently the cheapest place I ever see for memory and a great company to do business with.

so then it would be best to just save the money and get the 55x card. i have plenty of time when i'm loading the pics on the computer. i usually load a few hundred pics at a time so i slide the card in and walk off anyways. i was kinda thinking the same thing about the camera making the quality of the pics but wasnt really sure when i seen the card speed. thanks for the info and hopefully i'll get some good pics with my new camera.

[Live2Hunt]

I use the 5.00 1 gig cards in my moultries and they work fine. I buy 2 for every camera and just walk up turn them off swap cards and turn them back on and I am out of my area ASAP.

[Shane]

The cheaper cards can be more prone to crashing. Doesn't mean they all will, but odds of a crash are a little better with cheap cards.

[bowbroadhead]

dont know the truth to this but was told that all 256 and 512 cards were going to be discontinued and all will be 1gig cards???????

[Tommyh]

dont know the truth to this but was told that all 256 and 512 cards were going to be discontinued and all will be 1gig cards???????

sounds about right. memory that small costs too much to make compared to the latest technology and bigger chips. same thing happened with PC RAM. is harder and more expensive to buy smaller sized RAM. boils down to tooling and maintaining more than one or two lines of production equipment and such

[doncom]

I understood the original question applied to trail cams, so most of the R/W discussions are moot.

But here are some observations about Digital DSLR's.

I'm not sure about any brand other than Nikon DSLR's, but generally speaking (there are some exceptions) card R/W speeds will have little or no effect on the number of shots taken. For Example a D80 shoots bursts of 3fps with a buffer of 10 to 20 shots depending on settings. In my experiments with a D80 and 2Gb 66X cards, and camera set on JPEG Fine/Large, I could fire about 50 frames before a noticeable slowdown. Other than just playing I NEVER shot more than 8 or 10 sequental shots with the D80 and card speed was not a factor.

My D300 with fast cards (300mB/s) fires 8fps till the card fills up.

[Live2Hunt]

To answer the question asked: I would buy the cheapest cards with the capacity you want. Speed is not an issue for your application.

[faycotrophyhunter]

To answer the question asked: I would buy the cheapest cards with the capacity you want. Speed is not an issue for your application.

well i'm definately not gonna buy the cheapest one. i believe in spending alittle more money for a good product. i'm prolly gonna buy another lexar. i'm not sure if i want the 2 or 4 gig though. my cards i have now are 128mb and 1 gig. my new camera accepts up to 4 gig but thats a lot of pics. i'm gonna be having it set on the highest quality pics but 2 gigs should be plenty of pics. my 1 gig holds about 900 or maybe a little more pics with my 3.1 mp camera and my new camera is 5 mp so i'm expecting to get a quite a few less pics on a 1 gig. i have in the past had 500 pics in a 2 week period so just incase i dont get a chance to check it often enough i dont wanna fill up the card. i always save alot of good pics on my card so i can watch the deer grow from year to year.

thanks for all the info guys and my question was answered. i'm just gonna go with the 50 or 55 x card that walmart has. no need in spending extra money if it is just so the pics will load faster. i'll post some pics up sometime once i get it set out and see exactly how the infared works. thanks again.