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How To Know Which Memory Card Is Best For Your Camera: SD, Micro SD, Compact Flash, XQD, CFast

How To Know Which Memory Card Is Best For Your Camera: SD, Micro SD, Compact Flash, XQD, CFast

The first thing I want to say is DO NOT CHEAP OUT on the memory cards you put in your camera. You spend all this money on a camera, the last thing you want to do is use a cheap, slow card that may fail and lose all your images.

How do you know which memory card is right for your camera? There are a dew different types of cards on the market. SD, Micro SD, Compact Flash, XQD and CFast. They all have different speeds at which they write data as well as read data. The cards will vary in price as well.

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