Cheryl Miller |
SD Card Recommendation I just received a Canon Rebel Tli and need to buy a memory stick. What do you recommend?
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Peter K. Burian |
Your camera takes SDHC memory cards. They're square. For the full speed that your camera can provide, buy a fast card ... i.e., Class 6 rated. SanDisk is an excellent brand, and their Extreme or Ultra cards are very reliable. A 2 GB card should have adequate capacity.
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- Kenneth De Pree Contact Kenneth De Pree Kenneth De Pree's Gallery |
I don't like to contradict an instructor whose course includes the one you own, but I question whether a 2 GB card is big enough. If you are shooting RAW, those photos take up much more space than .jpeg, but give you more detail and more processing options. The T1i has video capability and a 2 GB card will fill up fast. You want at least a 4 GB card if you plan to shoot video, and if you don't, you should have bought an Xsi at a significantly lower price. Don't limit what you can do with your new camera by getting a small card. Get at least 4 GB cards. Even if you don't start shooting video immediately, get cards big enough to handle video when you do start making use of that feature. I agree that SanDisk has excellent cards and that you should have the Ultra or above.
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Peter K. Burian |
Well, yes, if you plan to shoot videos, a 4GB card will be necessary. If not, I still prefer cards with less capacity, such as 2GB. But you may need to buy more than one. Why? Because you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket. i.e. If your memory card gets corrupted, you may lose all of the photos. I would rather lose fewer photos than the *numerous* photos on a high capacity card. Peter
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- Kenneth De Pree Contact Kenneth De Pree Kenneth De Pree's Gallery |
I agree that it is better not to put all your eggs in one basket and for that reason stick with 4GB cards, which I have several of. Besides shooting photos, I shoot video on occasion and also continuous shooting when the occasion seems to call for it. My point to Cheryl was that she has paid a lot of money for a camera that shoots video as well as RAW and .jpeg, whereas she could have gotten the .Xsi for $200+ less and gotten everything the T1i does except shoot video. If she is not shooting video clips now, she should in the future and she should buy cards that are properly sized, rather than have to buy more cards in future to have space for video. If she had purchased a camera that doesn't shoot video, 2GB would be the way to go. Unless she was going to do a lot of continuous shooting, then I would prefer the 4GB. Cheryl, no matter what size card you decide on, buy several. When you are out and about, you don't want to be without both a backup card and a spare battery.
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- Kenneth De Pree Contact Kenneth De Pree Kenneth De Pree's Gallery |
Cheryl, because I am thinking about getting a T1i myself, I am checking the info available. I found this extremely interesting discussion about memory cards on Amazon and thought it worth posting, even though quite long. ****Update---I talked to Canon, to make a long story short, this camera is a bit finicky about which cards you put in it. Both kingston class 6 (fastest class) had problems, tried a kingston micro class 4 (slower) 4 gig and it worked fine, tried 2 Polaroid/pny 8 gig class 4's and they worked fine with only 1 buffer bar appearing occasionally, even on 1080. Canon guy seemed to like the sandisk brand. This begs the question of how can a class 4 work better than the class 6? I have a sandisk extreme III on order and will update this info if I have more problems with that. ******Another update, with a Sandisk 8 Gb Extreme lll card the video worked fine, no buffer bar at all. Perhaps there should be a recommended list of sdhc cards so others don't have the trouble I did. That said, I was able to test the video as follows: T1i Video Memory Usage Rates for a 1 minute file. 1080 mode 282 MB Following is for 5 minute file Any 1 clip can be 4GB max, so the following is an approximate max clip length 1080 about 14 minutes These figures are approximate as the content of the video will affect the compression and amount of memory actually used but these are pretty close to an average time you should expect. I did a little rounding so these are probably the on the low side you may get a little more time, but not much, maybe a minute. You can shoot as much video as the card will hold, just any 1 uninterrupted clip cannot be longer than 4 gig. Shooting Video also eats the battery, buy extras, one Battery per every 8 gig card should be about right.
****update on stills Other review sites had a pre-release version of this camera and they had the same video problem, (they did not name the sdhc card they were using, but I'd bet it was a kingston). Unfortunately there were not any reviews of actual cameras when I ordered it, just press releases. Now you have been warned and now you have this review. When you lose the video as the couple says 'I do' or other critical moment, you'll curse too. If you are going to do Video, and it important at all, I can only recommend the SanDisk 8 gb sdhc extreme III at this point. Just be warned that the video mode is very demanding and picky about the performance of the card, just the class rating is not to be counted on, as I found out the hard way. Some class 4's may work, even class 2's but that buffer bar will start showing up. >>>>>>>> Be Safe Buy the Sandisk Extreme III.
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