SD cards are the biggest necessities of photographers. Without SD cards, the shoots, the videos clicked are worthless. Just imagine a camera without a SD card.  Have you ever wondered how the images taken can be transferred to a PC for post editing or post processing of photographs? Above all, w here the hundreds or even thousands of photos will be stored? SD cards are the photographers delight and dream.  The importance of SD cards will remain forever till the importance of cameras exists!

Now the point is what are the best suited SD cards for Photographers? The choice of cards may vary and depend upon amateur photography, landscape photography, wedding photography, portrait etc.

 Be it a DSLR, or a point and shoot, compact or mirror less, it is important that which SD cards are best compatible with which camera. The choice may vary depending upon the speed, price, reliability, and warranty. It is surprising to know that most of the photographers hardly know anything about the technical side of SD cards. Few photographers are too careless to even keep a backup of the photographs. As a result sometimes, when the volatile SD cards get corrupt the photographers go haywire, and lose their important photos for forever.  However, there are plenty of SD card recovery tools available which can help you in this situation.

According to one survey most of the photographers including me prefer to use following 4 SD Cards among others . Following SD cards are categorized on the basis of their speed, specification, capacity

1:   32 GB Sandisk Extreme Plus

–       Reasonable price within 39$

–       Comes with a lifetime warranty

–       Up To 80MB/Sec Read Speed

–       Can handle 1080p video recording

–       Suitable for burst shooting and fast photo transferring at its best

–       Write speed up to 60MB/sec

–       Supports 4K ultra HD recording

–       Waterproof, X-ray Proof, Temperature Proof & Shockproof

–       Compatible with SLR cameras like Nikon, Canon, Panasonic GH4, Fuji

2:   32 GB Lexar Professional 600x, SDHC UHS-I Card

–      Price:  24$ in US

–       High  speed and class 10 performance

–       Compatible for capturing high-quality images and 1080p HD video

–        Reported read / write speed: 90Mb/s – 45Mb/s
Measured* read / write speed: 87.4MB/s – 45.8MB/s
Class: 10, UHS-I U1

–       large capacity options up to 256GB

3. Samsung 32GB PRO Class 10 Micro SDHC

–       Price is 36$

–       Compatible with devices with micro SDHC and micro SDxC slots

–       Up to 90MB/s read speed, 80MB/s write speed

–       Warranty is 10 years limited

–       For use with mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras and more.

–       High speed and Class 10 rating

–       Ideal for  Smartphones, Android Tablets, Tablet PCs and camera

–       Supports HD movies, HD videos, camcorder video recording, 3D videos and more.

–       Water proof, Temperature Proof, X-Ray proof, Magnetic proof

4. Transcend TS32GSDHC10U1 SDHC, Class 10 UHS-I (Ultimate)     600x

 –       Priced at 16$ in US

–       Read / write speed: 95Mb/s – 45Mb/s

–       Suitable for SDXC / SDHC compatible devices

–       Supports the Ultra High Speed Class 1 specification

–       Compatible with SD 3.01 standards

–       Built-in Error Correcting Code (ECC) to detect and fix transfer errors

–       Supports Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM)

–       Enables In System Programming (ISP) for updating firmware

–       Supports auto-standby, power-off and sleep modes

–       Write-protection switch

–       Backed by a limited lifetime warranty