sd cards

[biggles]

Hi everyone,i have started to use my camera in raw format.the camera is a fuji hs 10 and i use a 4gb sdhc memory card,
when i take a photo the camera takes a while to load the pic.
my question to all the folks is there a faster card i can use and what are the recommendations ?
thanks

biggles.

[Angry Turnip]

The thing with data cards be they SD or Compact Flash is to buy as fast a type as you can afford.

Cheap cards are best avoided,as they may be of suspect quality,or even fakes.

Sandisk,Kingston,Lexar,PNY,Sony etc are all reliable brands.

Basically the more storage space the card has,and the faster it is,the more expensive it is.

Shooting in RAW will use up much more storage space than JPG,so I would suggest a card minimum of 4 to 8gb at 30MB/s or faster.

[casper]

Just read a review of your camera and I think you may be stuck with the same write speed no matter what card you get.

Write speed is around 2secs for a JPEG, which though a little slow, does not affect its ability to hit the stated 10fps burst but only up to seven frames. When switching to Raw files, this increases to 3sec or 4sec for Raw+JPEG, and allows just six Raw or five Raw+JPEG files to be shot, and can take over 15secs to clear the buffer.

While what AT says is right about card speeds you are restricted by how fast your camera can write. So if your camera can write at 15mb/s and you have a 30mb/s card in it, it will only write at 15mb/s.