Just got a D50

[HeroOfPellinor]

Does it make a difference if I get a 133X card as opposed to a 45X? I imagine the camera itself has it's own buffer and there's no movie mode.

 

[imported_Mike]

What kind of buffer does the D50 have already?

 

[morkus64]

i think 24mb... you can take 4 RAW shots in a row as it is... A faster card would enable you to take a few more... according to imaging-resource.com the D50 can shoot 2.5 frames per second, and a RAW file averages 7.5mb (Nikon uses lossless compression and a proprietary format for RAW files (NEF)), so theoretically, if you had a card whicbh wrote at 18.75 mb/sec, you could shoot continuously. Of course that's just theoretical, and I haven't tried it. The kingston ultimate cards write at 20mb/sec, but are fairly expensive, and the corsair 133x write at 15.5mb/sec, and are reasonable priced.

If you are shooting JPEG, large/fine images are 3.6mb, so a faster card is not as necessary.

Again... theoretical! I don't know exactly how everything works, so the camera's buffer speed itself may limit things. maybe someone can provide more insight?

 

[n yusef]

Originally posted by: morkus64
i think 24mb... you can take 4 RAW shots in a row as it is... A faster card would enable you to take a few more... according to imaging-resource.com the D50 can shoot 2.5 frames per second, and a RAW file averages 7.5mb (Nikon uses lossless compression and a proprietary format for RAW files (NEF)), so theoretically, if you had a card whicbh wrote at 18.75 mb/sec, you could shoot continuously. Of course that's just theoretical, and I haven't tried it. The kingston ultimate cards write at 20mb/sec, but are fairly expensive, and the corsair 133x write at 15.5mb/sec, and are reasonable priced.

If you are shooting JPEG, large/fine images are 3.6mb, so a faster card is not as necessary.

Again... theoretical! I don't know exactly how everything works, so the camera's buffer speed itself may limit things. maybe someone can provide more insight?

DPReview.com says a D50 NEF is ~ 5,300 KBs.

Link

 

[morkus64]

odd... imaging-resource.com says 7.5mb

 

[Hikari]

Just get a Transcend 150x or something. I got one at zzf for $109 after rebate (2GB). You can fit a decent # of RAW files on it, and it is pretty fast.

At least I hope you shoot RAW if you have a D50. If not, no need for a 150x card anyway...