Memory card for Nikon D50

[erezz]

Hi,

I just bought my 1st digital camera - a brand new nikon d50. I was thinking about buying a 1GB SD card. My questions are:

1. What should be its speed? 133 or less?
2. Any recommended brands? I know SanDisk & Kingston.
3. Anything else that I should pay attention to?

Thanks
Erez

[britkev]

Card speed is not a factor for the D50 - I see no difference at all in camera performance between my regular blue Sandisk cards and my 133x rated Corsair chip. Sandisk and Kingston are good reliable brands... I bought the Corsair because it was on a special offer at the time and I have always had good luck with Corsair RAM in my desktops. It works just fine.

[eduardofrances]

I have two memory cards a Sandisk 256 OEM and a Trascend 512mb 80x and there is a lot of difference between them in the writting and reading speed !! reading and writting are done faster in the 80x card.

If you want light speed operation, a SanDisk Extreme III SD cards are the clear winners there.

Also remember that the D50 can not use SD HC (new SD cards standard that go up to 8 GB)

[VTEC_EATER]

Well, with my Patriot 133X write speed card I get 14 burst pics at 6 megapixles on Jpeg Fine before it starts slowing down.

Yesterday I had it set at Jpeg norm with the medium file size and took 60+ in a row without it even hesitating. I'm sure it could have easily kept going before it slowed down.

Depending on what Im shooting, I will keep the file size down to medium and shoot at wither normal or fine and Ive never had any problems.

I have a 1 GB Patriot 133X, and a 1 GB Ultra 133X card. For some reason the patriot can offer me a few more photos than the Ultra, but nothing out of reason.

[K1W1]

The D50 only writes to it's SD card at approx 40x speed. Any reasonable card faster than that will out perform the ability of the camera to write data so the only time you will notice a difference is if you take the card out of the camera and download a large number of images via a card reader.
Get a card locally from somebody who will offer after sales support because the brand name on the card is not relevent as there are no bad brands only bad individual cards (that can be swapped under warranty).

[Texan_Eagle_Scout]

I have been cruising the SD card listings on NEWEGG.com and the 1GB cards average $15 and up (2GB avg $30+ depending on speeds). They have excellent Cust Service and I personally never had a bad experience with that online retailer.

Also read the reviews for the products you are considering. Quite often there will be camera owners posting about compatability issues with specific models.