Few doubts about my Nikon D5100?
I own a Nikon D5100 for the last 10 months or so. Now that I have got very well acquainted with my cam, I would like to do a few upgrades. I'm starting with upgrading the memory card.
I'm planning to buy a Sandisk Extreme Pro 16GB card ( 95MB/S ) Official Product Page Link: http://www.sandisk.in/products/dslr/sandisk-extreme-pro-sdhcsdxc-uhs-i-memory-cards/
However before proceeding I would like to confirm a few things:
1. Will the 95MB/S speed benefit me in Continuous shooting?
2. What is the transfer rate of the cam while shooting 1080P at 30fps?
3. Most importantly will D5100 be compatible with this card?
4.Is 95MB/S an overkill?
A few things you may like to know:
1. I'm a serious hobby photographers and not a professional one and hence can't afford to spend a bit too much on accessories.
2. I do a lot of continuous shooting while clicking birds or sports.
3. I also do HD videos frequently on this DSLR when I don't have my Handycam.
PS: IF you need anymore details, please mention so in your answer and I will Add them to the question As soon as possible
Answers and suggestions are highly appreciated. However if you are only interested in ridiculing the question or my doubts, please don't take efforts.
Thanks in Advance
Cheers
Added (1). @Fotoace,
Thanks a lot. I don't mind buying 8GB instead of 16GB at all. Thanks for the advice. Also yup I mean the same continuous you have mentioned. Only I thought that it will empty the buffer faster than normal card. And yes further more, I'm trying seriously to be a better photographer and M sure so will happen if I get keeping such positive answers form experts like you.
Added (2). @Screwdriver,
Thanks a lot to you too. Actually I ave all those specs on computer you asked for. A quad-core 3.4GHz CPU, USB 3 and all others you asked for. So what I think I should do is go for 8GB instead of 16GB, but still go for 95MB/S because I agree to the point that the card is Futureproof.
1) for many years I shot motion pictures restricted to 400 foot reels of film. That meant that we followed a script and took shots that were rarely longer than three or four minutes. 400 feet is about 15 minutes.
2) the idea that you need a huge memory card to shoot video is ludicrous. Actually the largest card I use when shooting video is 8 gb. When the card is over 75% full, I change to a freshly formatted 8 gb card and let one of the assistants copy all the video files from the first card to the computer and an external drive (as backup). This means I use about 6 cards when shooting a typical music video.
3) Full HD video requires only a read/write rate of 10 MB/s (or class 10) which is the highest read/write speed available at this time. The Extreme Pro card is unique with its high rate of read/write
4) If you would look on page 207 of your user manual you will see that a 32 gb card can be used with your camera
5) When you say continuous, shooting, do you mean you just press the shutter release and hold it down? Any camera will eventually fill the cameras buffer and stop shooting. You need to learn to be more disciplined when shooting birds or other action subjects.
All that said, your D5100 is a perfect camera for what you do. You may just need some formal training in video and still photography.
1) Not really your camera can't match that transfer speed. No current camera can, the UHS technology is too new.
2) A Class 6 card will be enough for 1080p unless you use high bit rates which your camera can't do (I think), even then a Class 10 is fast enough. No current camera has UHS technology yet. The processor in most of them is too slow anyway, which is why you won't get any frames per second increase.
3) As long as your camera can use SDXC cards then it's OK, (I'm sure the D5100 can). Actually SDXC is more a measure of capacity rather than speed. These cards can operate slower the 95MBs is a maximum, there's no minimum.
4) A UHS Class 1 card is pretty new technology, unless your computer has USB 3 ports (native on the motherboard, not add on), uses ACHI rather than ATA, has a multi core processor running at over 3GHz, an SSD rather than a hard drive for your C drive (huge speed increase this one) and you have a USB 3 card reader even your computer won't get anywhere near the possible 95MBs transfer speed the card is capable of, but they are backwards compatible, so it's future proof.
The only place you can currently use this speed is when downloading to your computer, with the spec as above. I have a few of these and on my computer I can download an 8Gb card in under 3 minutes, but that is currently the only advantage of UHS.
Last point, I prefer to use 8Gb (or even 4Gb) cards, having all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea.