Comments on: What’s Your Favorite Brand Of Memory Card [POLL]

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:55:20 +0000

Hi, most of mine are Sandisk, but I recently purchased a Kingston 16GB and Toshiba 32 GB. The Kingston seemed to gariny for low light shots. Am not sure the one I purchased was faulty. Since I bought it in Egypt, did not bother to get a replacement. Toshiba works fine too.
Thanks, Kris

By: Peter Carey

Peter Carey — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:24:58 +0000

Some have asked and now that the poll is done I thought I’d let you know my favorite brand. For the past 5 years it’s been Transcend. I stumbled on them when going the cheap route but I have since then been impressed with the performance and quality. I’m not knocking any others, they’re just the card for me.

By: Pete Langlois

Pete Langlois — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:32:07 +0000

I have lots of Sandisk Ultra II SD cards as well as some Delkin Pro Class 6 which I’m using for my Canon HF S100 and they will be going in my Nikon D300S as well.

By: Se7eN

Se7eN — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:29:06 +0000

I had a Kingston 8 GB 133X (CF/8GB-U) fail on me once with my new 5D MKII. I could see the photos on the camera but the computer did not with a card reader. It’s never happend before through the thousands of shots on my XTi. My guess is that the 5D2 could be sensitive to in computer formating. I was able to retrieve the files with software and the card has been used again without a problem. The Kingstons have a liftime warranty.

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:08:19 +0000

EDIT:

I’ve been using Sandisk since these type of cards existed. I still have my first 256MB & 512MB. After many years they are still operational and performs well. None of ‘em failed. I find them faster than other brands which claims to be “ULTRA”. I recommend Sandisk.

I’ve tried LEXAR (not Lexmark) and it failed after a month. I had other brands and they were OK but I prefer Sandisk. I have a 3yr old ProDou and hasn’t failed …. yet. Probably the only Sony product I bought that lasted long enough, LOL.

By: Landscape Photography

Landscape Photography — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:35:26 +0000

Sandisk, still have my original 6 year old card that hasn’t failed yet, although it’s mighty slow by todays standards!

By: Someone

Someone — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:44:21 +0000

I’ve tried Lexmark and it failed after a month. I had other brands and they were OK but I prefer Sandisk. I have a 3yr old ProDou and hasn’t failed …. yet. Probably the only Sony product I bought that lasted long enough, LOL.

By: Slick Rick

Slick Rick — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:11:50 +0000

I use SD and Lexar. If I am shooting paid, or know I wont need more then 8GB worth of storage its Lexar for me. Otherwise SD, simply for cost and quality. Patriot are garbage cards, Ive had bad experiences / failures with them, corruption of images etc.

By: NikonUser

NikonUser — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:13:01 +0000

My 2GB SanDisk was bundled with my Nikon D40. I have purchased 2 4GB SanDisk afterwards and quite happy with them. I don’t know how much speed gain one get from other brands but SanDisk never fails me.

I agree with those who uses smaller cards instead of a big one.

By: terapix digital

terapix digital — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:27:44 +0000

Common brands here in our place are kingston, transcend and pqi. I’m using kingston. A local hardware magazine tested the speed of some memory cards and kingston emerged the fastest.