The Best Memory Card for the Nikon D7000
March 27, 2011 
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SD card for Nikon D7000
Memory cards are difficult to buy, but the choice of a memory card is easy if you own a Nikon D7000. The only thing left to decide is what sizing of card you’d like to buy.
Sandisk and Nikon worked together to produce an SD memory card that can work faster with the Nikon D7000 than any other SD memory card.
The marketing departments of the sd memory card manufacturers must work overtime trying to think of new and confusing systems which will make their cards seem faster than the “other guy.”
In the search for faster and faster memory cards, you may be surprised to know that often a faster memory card will provide no benefit to your camera’s speed. It works like a bottleneck. When the camera takes a picture, the sensor captures information and passes it to the buffer, and the buffer passes the information to the memory card. If the processor in the camera is slow, using a faster memory card won’t make a bit of difference in speed. In many cases, however, the memory card is the weak link in the chain.
With that understanding, you might be interested to know that the new Nikon D7000 is the only DSLR on planet Earth that can take advantage of the new UHS technology in SD memory cards. Unlike most SD cards that max out at 20 megabytes per second maximum write speed, the new Sandisk UHS memory card can be fully used by the Nikon D7000. Other DSLRs will see no benefit in using this card rather than a regular class 10 memory card.
If you own a Nikon D7000, this is THE best memory card for your camera… no question. Buy this memory card on Amazon.com. In fact, buy two since the Nikon D7000 has two memory card slots. You can also buy it in 32gb or in 8gb sizes.
Sandisk has had this type of exclusive with Nikon DSLRs before. The D90 was only able to use the power of the 30 megabytes per second SD card made by Sandisk, and not similar SD cards made by other manufacturers.
You can buy 2 32GB Lexar Pro’s for cheaper than one of those. These Lexar’s are a class 10 and higher quality; work great
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/824186-REG/Lexar_LSD32GCRBNA1332_32_GB_Professional_133x.html
So I guess you didn’t read the article, Jehlef? This card is FASTER than a regular class 10 card.
What do you recommend for a Canon?
Would you recommend the same thing for a nikon d5100?
I recently purchased one of these cards:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007M54E08/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Everything looks the same as the card you wrote about, but mine’s not “Pro.” The one in the link is a class 10, but the stats seems to be the same (up to 45 MB/sec). Is the “Pro” card that much better?
I just purchased the D7000 and after reading your article I’m going with SanDisk memory cards. Which of the 64GB memory cards do you recommend:
Extreme 64GB (SDXC)
Extreme Pro 64GB (SDXC) UHS-I
Ultra 64GB (SDXC) UHS-I Class 10
Thanks!!!
Hi Jim how are you today, mate just a quick question on this extreme pro card’ there appears to be a couple of the these cards which one are you refering to
Regards David
Dont bother to leave a Question on this site because as you can see he does’nt bother to reply to you