Looking to get recommendations on what to use for simple travel photography 16.1 Mega Pixel camera.
I heard people saying that the micro SD cards can only get a max of 30 mbs per second or something along those lines (which is what i'm currently using). And there's a delay after taking photos. However i'm not sure if it's just the normal camera lag. Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II
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Sandisk Extreme would be a great card. Not too expensive from typical big box retailers.
I don't think the micro cards have the rumoured speed limit you've been told of…might depend on the card though.
Plus one to the above. Sandisk Extreme Pro if you can. I recently had a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, until I decided that it would be too much hard work (very cool little camera, and fantastic output, but I think I would have needed a new computer just to do justice to the output in processing). It was a finicky little bugger, and if you wanted to film in raw, you needed the right type of Sandisk Extreme Pro card (and not the v30 ones). I think that says something about the speed of these (and perhaps also something about BlackMagic not investing enough in their software to be compatible with a broader range of cards).
I have an Oly E-M5 II, and it currently has a Lexar 32gb 1000x card (full size) in it. It is UHS II (two rows of pins - which both the E-M5II and E-M10II can take advantage of), and so theoretically can go faster (note though that the fastest UHSI cards can still beat a slow UHSII card). I read unflattering things about these Lexar cards, but it has been ok. My Oly will shoot a dozen or more frames at faster than light (ok, maybe a couple of seconds), and then slow down to a handful of shots be second (in raw, with mechanical shutter). I also have a bunch of Sandisk Extreme cards (various flavours), a couple of Sony cards, and various others.
No delay after taking shots on my Oly, but that may be because I have the fancy-pants E-M5II, which sits above the E-M10II in Oly's range.
If given a choice, I always pick the full size SDCards and avoid the micro/adaptor things - I figure it's only an extra set of contacts to fail, and all my cameras take the full cards anyway. I haven't had trouble with micros in my Oly though (but I've had devices in the past that have).
As others here have and will say, the extra speed is not a big deal unless you want to use burst mode for as long as possible. Faster cards will help your buffer clear, but I'm sure there's a point where the camera's own circuitry is the bottleneck. Not sure if the delay you're experiencing is avoidable or not.
Just go and buy an E-M1X instead…you know you want to. Bound to be lightning fast.
Depends if you're shooting in raw or jpeg
If raw, get the quickest possible (SanDisk extreme as mentioned above). If jpeg… Well you should be using raw
Unless you're doing burst photography you shouldn't run into any issues.
I've got microsds in my a7iii and they're fine. The 30 shot buffer takes some time to clear but for the price versus an ultra fast sd card, I'm satisfied.
It’s definitely the card. You’ve got a very capable camera using a slow card. Get a half-decent SD card & you will only notice lag on burst mode. If you’re taking burst, the card speed makes a massive difference - you’ll notice lag after about 10 shots but that’s due to the camera being able to take photos faster than the card can be written to because of card speed. I’ve got cards with different write speeds and you notice the difference when taking over about 10 photos on burst. You would never notice lag after one shot on your camera (yours is a good one) with a half-decent SD card.
There is no speed difference between micro SD and "full size" SD as long as the specs on the card are the same.
With a top of the line SanDisk extreme pro there is about 0.5 seconds shot to shot delay when shooting raw+jpeg for the E-M10 mkII. Turning off raw might reduce this time.
Find out the fastest standard your camera supports and get a reputable name brand card that advertise that speed. Don't save a couple $$$ to cripple a fantastic camera.
Yeah, avoid Micro SD if you camera take a full sized SD. There's no point.
This website is pretty good:
https://bestphotographygear.com/best-memory-cards-olympus-e-…
Not sure on the accuracy of that article in asserting that the E-M10 II is UHSI only. I've seen conflicting stories about this for both the E-M10 II and E-M5 II. Olympus Themselves say both cameras are compliant with UHSII, though I understand that doesn't mean they'll really utilise UHSII, but may just use such cards as UHSI.
Some interesting tests at https://www.cameramemoryspeed.com/olympus-e-m5-ii/sd-card-co… for the E-M5II. No tests there for E-M10II, though it was released around the same time as the former, so surely Oly would stick the same card interface in both? Obviously camera electronics can make a difference to the speed. The top of the list is dominated by UHSII cards though…not sure if this is down to the UHSII architecture, or just that they're newer cards.
I swear I can see two rows of contacts deep in the SD slot of my Oly E-M5II, but that may just be my eyesight playing tricks.
Yeah good point. My advise is to go slightly overkill. Unless OP is after a very high capacity card, the price difference isn't that large anyway. Especially if OP has a USB 3 card reader, UHS-II really makes a big difference.
Yeah…that. I don't often kill these card. Odds are, I'll use any new cards in a different camera down the track, so yeah, overkill is good.
Thanks for the help everyone. Seems I'll likely just go with Sandisk Extreme from a retail store. And yeah raw dog all the way
Don't buy from ebay or 3rd party sellers on Amazon whatever you decide