memory cards

[tomorrowstreasures]

Does any one have experience or opinions on brands of memory cards? Does one produce better color, more detail, and so on better than another brand? If so, what is your memory card preference? and why?

[Iguanasan]

It's just a bunch of ones and zeros so there's no influence on the output of your photos. I've used whatever I could get for a good price and haven't had a problem yet.

[jjeling]

Ive always felt the same way as Ig does. Although I do feel that some use better contact material and can sometimes improve the writing speed of your camera keeping the camera buffer free. I think the differences are usually marginal though. Unless you into sports photography and are wrapping off pictures faster than you can push the shutter than it probably does not matter too much. Cheap cards does not affect me as I usually take abstract shots that take longer to compose and set up than it does to write onto the card.

[tirediron]

I usually stick with the Lexar Professional or SanDisk Extreme IV series; the higher write speeds are a definite asset when shooting things like dance recitals, and I have seen some 'no-name' cards where the build quality really does look suspect.

[casil403]

At a digital camera course I took last year, the instructor said to get the best quality memory cards available for the writing speed.
He said too that many of then have back-up programs that allow you to be able to retrieve photos if a mistake happens and you lose them. I dunno if he was right or not, but I figure it's better to be safe than sorry?

[jjeling]

I take too many pictures to worry about losing a couple. Not only that, I usually carry 4, 5 or 6 cards with me. Call it overkill if you wish, but I have yet to run into any problems where Ive had to use a seperate card because of a write failure or a loss of data. I do not take many sports pictures so the need for fast write speed is not a high priority.