[Leica] SD Card Questions, M(240) Gearhead Edition

[Mark Rabiner]

Just in case someone is interested as I know D700's are not uncommon on the
LUG my year old 60mb's fast card listed below  from last year is not made
any more. They are 160mb's fast now and cost a bit less,  50 bucks instead
of 60. That's the 16gb card.  The word is out that the camera itself only
writes to 25 or 35 mb's per second. So it would seem to be a waste of money.
Any of it.  But I think it would still work. And somehow it just might be a
good thing. 
Driving a Ferrari 25mph is a good thing right?


On 4/10/15 9:48 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> On my DSLR I use a SanDisk Extreme 60mb's 16GB UDMA card it takes a licken and
> keeps on ticken. The first real money I ever spent on a card I think it was 60
> bucks a year ago.
> My camera really seems spunkier. Seems quite self assured. I think its
> happier. I had a cheap card which made me turn off and on the camera. And it
> wasn't red it was green. Not a good color for cards.
> I'm sticking with red SanDisk cards for now on.
> 
> People on Nikon lists say  " Supported is different than working."
> My camera supposedly doesn't "support" a 16GB card. A fact that had I known
> that when I bought this for 60 bucks would have worried me. Despite all these
> people saying that everybody they know uses 16 and 32 gb cards in their
> D700's. Now I am part of that "everybody" as its been a year.
> But I'm not getting a 32 gb card as I cant fell this 16gb card.
> I bet this same card if its made now cost half as much as in 30 bucks......
> (he's checking)
> 
> 
> On 4/10/15 9:31 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have used the Sandisk Ultra cards and can tell no difference from any
>> other SD card, including the Transcend cards that I usually use.  Maybe I
>> don't shoot as many bursts and don't need as much speed as others might,
>> but I have found that a normal SD card works just as well as any of the
>> super, ultra, extreme, or high speed ones do.  But then I have never run
>> into a bottleneck problem with any card.
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I 'm sorry to post this again because I suspect it has been discussed but
>>> inasmuch as neither the LUG Search function nor my internal memory function
>>> are working very well I'll have to.
>>> 
>>> I see that Leica suggests Sandisk Ultra or Extreme Class 10 SD cards with
>>> speeds >30 MB/s.  http://content.abt.com/documents/54249/LEICAM_FAQ.pdf
>>> 
>>> There are some folks on another well known Leica forum who say the speed -
>>> both waking and shooting - is noticeably better with the latest and fastest
>>> cards, which have maximum speeds of 95 MB/s.  I have also seen posters in
>>> various forii say they get faster speeds with 16GB cards than they do with
>>> 32GB cards.
>>> 
>>> I'm just curious to know if any LUGers have discerned - when shooting with
>>> an M (240) or an M-P (240) - noticeably faster speeds or any other
>>> _noticeable_  advantage to using 60 MB/s versus 95 MB/s SD cards, and also
>>> any _noticeable_ speed difference when using 16GB, 32GB or larger cards.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> --Bob
>>> 
>>> p.s. Uncle Dr. Ted is certainly free to ignore this thread.  ;-)
>>> 
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