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Sports Photo Guy vs Galbraith

April 28th, 2012 by Chuck Steenburgh --> · 2 Comments

Rob Galbraith, arguably the premier tester of flash memory cards, has finally updated his rankings to include UHS-I SDHC cards (and, I note quite jealously, XQD cards in the Nikon D4).  Curious how his results compare to mine?  I was too.

Our results are pretty consistent.

Sports Photo Guy vs Galbraith: D7000 RAW

Sports Photo Guy vs Galbraith: D7000 RAW

In most cases, our order-of-finish tracked each other, with my results almost universally 1-3 MB/s higher than his.  He shot 10 images per test, while I shot 15; he didn’t specify his on-camera settings, but more than likely with just 10 images he never filled the buffer, as my test is designed to do.  Galbraith also does not calculate anything approaching an “effective FPS rate” as I do for the D7000 RAW Burst Test; however, he also tests JPG write speed plus a consecutive NEF+JPG burst recording capability (similar to my JPG test for the D300).

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Tags: D7000 · SD/SDHC/SDXC

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Eric // Apr 29, 2012 at 5:44 AM

    Thanks for the useful job ;-)

  • 2 Andrew // Oct 11, 2012 at 5:44 PM

    Always good to have more than one person testing. Even if the results are somewhat different.
    Not having to write the extra data for the JPEG is more likely the difference.

    But from either test it does show there is a difference between the speed of the cards.

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