D60 secondhand advice

**weeds** · 30th December 2009, 10:42 PM

....just picked the D60 up, damn it no memory card

, now i need to source one.....sometime tomorrow

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 31st December 2009, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by weeds

....just picked the D60 up, damn it no memory card

, now i need to source one.....sometime tomorrow

Have you got one out of an old camera you could use for today? You can pick those up anywhere these days.

**WhiteD3** · 31st December 2009, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by weeds

....just picked the D60 up, damn it no memory card

, now i need to source one.....sometime tomorrow

Kelvin, spend the extra money and get the fastest card you can afford. The time the camera will take to write a hi res pic to an ordinary card will drive you mad. I changed the card in my camera to a Sandisk extreme III and cut the writing time for a RAW pic from 20+ seconds to <4!

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 31st December 2009, 10:33 AM

Some cameras have inbuilt memory where the photo is written to first, and then copied to the flash card to improve performance. I'm not sure if this is one of them.

**Bushie** · 31st December 2009, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Some cameras have inbuilt memory where the photo is written to first, and then copied to the flash card to improve performance. I'm not sure if this is one of them.

The D60 will store about 9 RAW frames in the buffer, once that's full the card speed will become a factor.

Martyn

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 31st December 2009, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by Bushie

The D60 will store about 9 RAW frames in the buffer, once that's full the card speed will become a factor.

Martyn

Ok, so the speed of the SD card shouldn't really be critical then.

It's not very often that you need to take more than a 9 shot burst of photos.

**dmdigital** · 31st December 2009, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Ok, so the speed of the SD card shouldn't really be critical then.

It's not very often that you need to take more than a 9 shot burst of photos.

I was shooting last weekend and took about 300 shots using 9fps, works well but I had to go back to just JPEG as shooting RAW would fill the buffer up - 48 shots RAW vs 130 JPEG. If you really want to "catch the moment", then a high frame rate sometimes helps.

I would still get at least an Extreme III level card for the D60. Definitely steer clear of the really slow ones, but there is no point spending the extra dollars for the latest and greatest either.

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