Drdobs said:
Cool wife.... :)

Yes she is, for over 20 years now! Just to tease her further, the battery grip showed up yesterday. Maybe the body will show up today?

PAG said:
After trying my D7000 and 300mm f/4 + TC1.4 for birds, my wife ordered them for herself. The lens, TC, NC filter, spare batteries, and new SD cards have all arrived, but she's on the edge of her seat waiting for the camera.

Cool wife.... :)

JorPet said:By the way, my two cards showed up today, camera should be here on Friday.

After trying my D7000 and 300mm f/4 + TC1.4 for birds, my wife ordered them for herself. The lens, TC, NC filter, spare batteries, and new SD cards have all arrived, but she's on the edge of her seat waiting for the camera.

TaoTeJared said:
CF cards are faster uploading to PCs than SD cards if they are in the same speed category - remember the speed class ratings are only the "must meet a minimum" speed.

That and the fact that the Extreme Pro CF is a 90MB/s card and the Extreme Pro SDHC is only 45MB/s, so the CF will always be faster at this level.

@PAG - I understood you were talking about in camera speeds and agree that the higher speed card probably is faster than the camera write speed, so you really don't get a benefit there. I still like the cards to download to my laptop as fast as possible, so the extra speed there should be nice. By the way, my two cards showed up today, camera should be here on Friday.

CF cards are faster uploading to PCs than SD cards if they are in the same speed category - remember the speed class ratings are only the "must meet a minimum" speed.

JorPet said:
Are you using a USB, USB II, or PCI interface to upload them to your PC?

I'm only talking about in camera performance. I didn't check PC download speed.

PAG said:
So I see a small improvement, but it's not a blistering difference by any stretch.

Are you using a USB, USB II, or PCI interface to upload them to your PC? I am thinking that if you are using a PCI interface that it should be a lot faster than the Extreme. Seems to be using my ExpressCard reader for CF and an Extreme Pro CF card.

I'm not sure what's up, but at the B&H site a 16GB Sandisk Extreme Pro (45MB/s) is $73.50 and the slower 16GB Sandisk Extreme (30MB/s) is $78.95.

teeboy said:
has anyone tried the new sandisk extreme pro in the d7000? if yes would you recommend this over the sandisk extreme? thanks.

I shoot a D7000 and I just got the Extreme Pro cards about 2 weeks ago. When at full speed burst, I get only one more frame on the Extreme Pro over the Extreme before the camera starts to slow down. The buffer seems to clear a few second faster.

So I see a small improvement, but it's not a blistering difference by any stretch.

B+H must have be updating some of it's site - I had to search Google to find it on there.

TaoTeJared said:
@studio460 - FYI - I just searched and they are for sale at B+H and everywhere else.

The 30Mb/sec. Extreme IIIs? Crap! I just bought the 20Mb/sec. last week! I don't know how I missed those. I was looking and looking all over B+H.

@studio460 - FYI - I just searched and they are for sale at B+H and everywhere else.

When I first bought my D7000, I bought a few SanDisk Extreme IIIs, rated at 30Mb/sec. I lost one, and needed more, but all I could find on the B+H site last week was SanDisk Extreme (no Roman numerals) at only 20Mb/sec. The Extreme IIIs, apparently, are no longer in current production. Anyone have a clue what exactly replaced the "IIIs" and why the datarate dropped 10Mb/sec. on the current "Extreme" product?

[The Extreme IIIs worked fine for both stills and 1080p24 video, by the way.]

I have both the sandisk extreme class 10 and the sandisk extreme pro UHS. It feels like the new UHS is a bit faster, but i have no hard figures to back that up.

Funny, just ordered two Sandisk Extreme Pro 8GB for the new D7000. They should all be here by Friday. I suspect that the Extreme is fast enough to handle the full write speed of the D7000, but I'm haven't been able to confirm that one way or another. I know the extra speed will be appreciated when I load them on my laptop as the slot is built into the UDMA controller so will probably read at the full speed of the card.

I use the CF Sandisk Extreme Pro in my D700 and it has been great. I have an express card bus reader for my laptop for that one and it flies when downloading.

has anyone tried the new sandisk extreme pro in the d7000? if yes would you recommend this over the sandisk extreme? thanks.

randomnut said:
Another vote here for Transcend. I've never had a problem with them, and their class 10 cards have always kept up to speed, even with the demands of the D7000 . Here you can pick up an 8GB card for £7.50 so I'll be stocking up with more of these in the near future.

I had bad experience with Transcend CF cards, while Sandisk or Kingston were O.K. for the D70s although Kingston and Nikon have a non-friendly reputation (As I have read before in this thread)

NSXType-R said:

What class was it? Perhaps it was the D200's buffer?

I use a class 4 card with the D40, not a big issue as file sizes aren't massive and the D40 isn't a speed demon.

The D200 is supposed to get 22 raw files on a burst, but with the ultra cards it gets about 10. My D90 is only supposed to get 11 raws on a burst but with the extreme it surprisingly does about 26 and the write time is faster as I can shoot about 2.5 fps when the buffer is full as opposed to a frame every few seconds on the d200 when the buffer is full. I know the D200 and the D90 are 12 bit raw shooters but the D90 also has a larger file size than the D200 as it has 2.5 million pixels more. My D90 does go down in performance when I use any other cards too although I dont see a difference between the class 6 and class 10 cards (The cf I use in the D200 doesn't even list a class).

Cool vid BTW Broxi, It makes me think highly of my local hospital...

Another vote here for Transcend. I've never had a problem with them, and their class 10 cards have always kept up to speed, even with the demands of the D7000 . Here you can pick up an 8GB card for £7.50 so I'll be stocking up with more of these in the near future.

Someone shared a nice link about D7000 write speeds with various cards here: http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=2712&page=2#post-54910

I use two Patriot SDHC 16gb Class 10 (part# PSF16GSDHC10)

I have some 2,000 pictures taken and half a dozen videos, and have had no issues.

Go for Class 6 at least, not lower.

Cheers,

Nice thread...

Question: What is the max write speed the D7000 has?

Therefore you may not need faster than the write speed of the camera..

Few years ago, when I was in the search for a CF card for my D70s, the market was already populated with faster cards than the camera write speed. People on different forums were advising to get the latest expensive ones (above 80x) when the camera was capable to write at a speed around 40x for the D70s and around 33x for the D70, (The rate multiplier comes from the old audio CD data transfer rate which is 150 KB/s.)

aslightdelay said:
@NSX: Well, that was part of why I thought I MIGHT be able to get away with it; as long as I'm using the faster card for the more memory-intensive format, it might work, right? I'm assuming the camera prioritizes according to the formats used (but I'm well aware what happens when you assume :) ).

Maybe. Who knows? Find out and let us know.

kyoshinikon said:
I use sandisk extreme cards exclusively because they have never failed me or any of the photog's I know personally. I have 1 Sandisk ultra 16 gb card and I hate that my D200 chokes up after about 10 frames when using it on continuous shooting. As to video you cant go wrong with the class 10 cards...

What class was it? Perhaps it was the D200's buffer?

I use a class 4 card with the D40, not a big issue as file sizes aren't massive and the D40 isn't a speed demon.

This is how they're made if you're interested...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvf29R7nXlM&feature=player_embedded

I use sandisk extreme cards exclusively because they have never failed me or any of the photog's I know personally. I have 1 Sandisk ultra 16 gb card and I hate that my D200 chokes up after about 10 frames when using it on continuous shooting. As to video you cant go wrong with the class 10 cards...