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Question for experienced DSLR folks
shmokes:
I need to pick up memory card for a NEX 5 camera. The Eye-fi looks awesome, and would add geo-tagging functionality in addition to wireless file transfer, but the fastest cards they have are class 6. Do you think the difference in write speed between that and a class 10 SDHC card is enough to forgo the cool Eye-fi features in favor of a faster memory card? Or is class 6 simply plenty fast for a 14 megapixel camera?
p.s. I know that this also depends on other stuff like the speed of the camera's DSP and the size of its buffer. But I don't know enough about this camera to give much in the way of details about that. It's probably safe to assume that in those respects the camera is at least on par with the best micro four-thirds cameras and entry-level DSLRs. If you have experience with other cameras using both speeds of cards, I'd like to hear about it.
edit: grammar
Ed_McCarron:
Love my Eye-Fi. Mine can handle 3 or so 18MP snaps a second with no delay that I've noticed.
Downside? The helper won't rotate the pics natively, if you're used to the importer that comes with Windows doing it for you. It does set the rotation bits, so higher end programs can still right the pics automagically.
stu33:
Just wondering, how hard a hit does your battery take from one of those?
gryhnd:
--- Quote from: stu33 on December 06, 2011, 04:02:53 pm ---Just wondering, how hard a hit does your battery take from one of those?
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Negligible.
I've got one of the Pro cards and it is great...no issues. For large numbers of photos...like the couple-few hundred I may take during sports shoots, I sometimes still plug the card in directly to my MBP rrather than wait for Wi-Fi.
What's also cool is if you have a tablet/smartphone and are not near a hotspot, you can ad-hoc to the tablets and preview your photos moments after you shoot them.
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: gryhnd on December 07, 2011, 07:38:36 am ---
--- Quote from: stu33 on December 06, 2011, 04:02:53 pm ---Just wondering, how hard a hit does your battery take from one of those?
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Negligible.
I've got one of the Pro cards and it is great...no issues. For large numbers of photos...like the couple-few hundred I may take during sports shoots, I sometimes still plug the card in directly to my MBP rrather than wait for Wi-Fi.
What's also cool is if you have a tablet/smartphone and are not near a hotspot, you can ad-hoc to the tablets and preview your photos moments after you shoot them.
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Once it gets all the pics uploaded, negligible.
I've made the mistake of leaving the camera on, on the opposite end of the house from the access point. That little wifi card can't -quite- get the signal there -- but it keeps trying, and kills the battery in the process.
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