MEMORY CARD CONFUSION

I FIND ALL THE MEMORY CARD LINGO SO CONFUSING. I NEED TO PURCHASE AN SDXC MEMORY CARD CAPABLE OF RECORDING A FEW ACTION SEQUENCES. ARE THERE ANY OPTIONS OUT THERE THAT DON’T BREAK THE BANK?

Luckily Helen in the last few years memory card technology has greatly improved and reduced in price. Larger sized and faster cards are now under the £100 mark.

First, check which type of memory card is compatible with your camera (in your case you’ve specified you need an SDXC), then take into account the capacity and speed of the card. The capacity of the card is how many images (or how much video space) the card can hold and this is measured in Gigabytes (GB) or Terabytes (TB). A 1,000GB is equivalent to 1TB (TB cards are pricier for obvious reasons). If you want to record a few multiple action sequences without having to change over your cards we recommend you purchase something at least 128GB or bigger. Finally, the speed of the card is how quickly the card can write and read the images. This is usually written in megabytes per second (MB/S) but it can also appear as ‘x’ to indicate the speed. For example 300MB/s is the same as 2,000x, 150MB/s is the same as 1,000x, 45MB/s is the same as 300x, and so on. Normally the reading speed is indicated on the card so check on the manufacturer’s website or specifications for the writing speed. Get the fastest you can afford. Something like the SanDisk Extreme PRO 128GB SDXC Memory Card up to 170MB/s is just under

£30 from Amazon, which is a great deal.

MEMORY CARDS HAVE GREATLY REDUCED IN PRICE OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS. GET THE LARGEST AND FASTEST YOU CAN AFFORD IF SHOOTING ACTION SEQUENCES