SD Card for video shooting

[FalconSG]

May I know which brand of Class 10 SD Card is fastest in the market? I am using the Canon 60D to shoot video and always get buffer overload problem which stops the video recording immediately.

 

[eleveninth]

using sandisk extreme class 10. no problems at all.

how long were you filming?

 

[FalconSG]

I am filming a series of short footages with each about 10 to 30sec long.
It's strange that SGCameraStore told me that Sandisk is not as good as Silicon Power (SP). I think that's because they are selling SP brand.

 

[eleveninth]

LOL.



I've never heard of silicon power.

 

[daniyal]

FalconSG>>> Bro, I am using the Silicon Power Class 10 for video. I have no problems until last weekend. Faced the same problems as you. Do not know why. I formated the SD card. And now it works again. Test shoot for 10 mins and no problem.

 

[saveDqueen]

Sandisk is the best IMO, other brands worth mentioning are Sony, Transcend and Toshiba.

Personally I would avoid Kingston and SP, by the way if I am there to hear the comment that SP>Sandisk I would give him a giggle and walk away.

 

[FalconSG]

Sandisk is the best IMO, other brands worth mentioning are Sony, Transcend and Toshiba.

Personally I would avoid Kingston and SP, by the way if I am there to hear the comment that SP>Sandisk I would give him a giggle and walk away.

I was surprised when I heard that and I walked away indeed.

 

[FalconSG]

He obviously has a vested interest since he sells SP. That's business anyway. It's up to us consumers to do our homework before buying.

 

[superdave]

I was testing my Transcend class 10 SD card and I was getting buffer overruns constantly as well on my Canon 600D. I could have sworn it was fine before when I first bought it. However, one thing I noticed when I was having overruns was that my SD Card was quite full (about 80%). As soon as I formatted it and tested it again, the buffer overrun stopped.

So my guess is that while class 10 works, but it gets slower as it gets filled up. So its probably better to oversize the capacity of your SD cards, correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[silverarrow]

May I know which brand of Class 10 SD Card is fastest in the market? I am using the Canon 60D to shoot video and always get buffer overload problem which stops the video recording immediately.

Within Class 10, there are different write speed, the common ones sold under "For video usage" are 30Mbps and 45Mbps, these usually work fine in a typical dslr system, but if you hack your dslr for the ultimate detail footage, you need the top of the line ones, running at 95 Mbps, and a hack dslr for video is writing at this speed to the memory card.
And of course the price is way different even for the same capacity.

I think SanDisk makes the fastest SD at the moment (95 Mbps) 64 Gb. SDXC/SDHC, not sure for compact flash though.