Canon R7 What size is your memory card?

[Spitfirejd]

What size SD cards are you using for your R7? I‘ve moved from the Canon DSLR CF cards, and I’m debating on what size SD cards to get. Previously, I’ve always preferred to have more, smaller cards so I didn’t have all my eggs in one basket, so to speak. However, I didn’t really shoot any video, which I plan on doing more of with my R7. I will probably shoot mostly short clips, but I could see there may be some instances where I would want to shoot some longer footage of wildlife, depending on what they are doing. By longer, probably no more than 5-10 minutes at a time. Also, the R7 has a much higher MP sensor than they old cameras so I’m not sure how much space RAW photos will take.

 

[Archibald]

Funny to remember when every new digital camera came with a memory card that you could barely put a few dozen pictures on! I've long since gotten rid of those smaller memory ones but kept a 4 GB Hitachi Micro Drive CF card just as a curiosity. It was actually a tiny hard drive in the form of a CF card.

These days I shoot mostly with 128 GB SD cards, none of my current cameras take CF or other cards. I took Tim's recommendation on the Kingston Canvas React Plus. They are very fast at writing the files.

Those were the days! I still have the CF card that came with my camera back around 2006. It says "16" with "MB" barely noticeable in the corner. Everyone knew that megabytes was intended. To imagine 16 GB would have been crazy, let alone the bigger cards we use now without much thought.

• Canon EOS R7
• RF-S18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM
• 150.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/10 sec
• ISO 400

 

[Archibald]

I bought my camera an SD card for Christmas - a fast 256GB one. Now I can shoot for 6 months without having to clear the card.

 

[MrSparks999]

2 x 64gb, with 4 spare just in case

 

[Spitfirejd]

Best Memory Cards for Canon EOS R7 - Camera Times

Looking for the best SD memory cards for Canon EOS R7? Here is the guide for you to get the top recommended SD cards for Canon EOS R7 mirrorless camera. The Canon EOS R7 has dual SD card slots that

cameratimes.org

I use this one.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08GGFCZPW?linkCode=gg2&tag=pgnote1220-20&th=1

Thank you. That’s a great article, but it doesn’t address sizes, other than what is available. I’m leaning towards 128GB, but was debating the size vs price and how often I would need to change the cards, etc

 

[Spitfirejd]

While I don't have an R7, I have an R, which has a 30mp sensor compared to your R7's 32mp sensor. With a 32GB card, I get about 900 shots at iso 100. If I shoot at iso 25600 (almost never do this) I get about 670 shots. The noise in high iso images is data and makes file sizes larger. Your R7 might handle noise better than my R.

If you have a look at page 942 of your EOS R User manual, you will see that Canon says you should be able to shoot 873 RAW images on a 32gb card. They don't specify iso settings, so that depends on which iso settings they used. Maybe it is an average.

Personally, I have mostly 64gb cards because they are more common in UHS-II than 32gb cards. And I prefer UHS-II cards because they are a lot faster when copying the images to my hard drive than UHS-I. Do they save me a lot of time? Not really, but I like the faster speed. It makes me feel better....haha.

I don't normally shoot video, so I don't personally have a need for something larger than 64gb. But if I could get a 128gb card for the same price as a 64gb, then I would buy the 128gb. Just because I have a large card doesn't mean I have to fill it....just because I have two large baskets doesn't mean I have to only carry my eggs in one basket.

As far as brands go, I have Kingston, Sony, Lexar, Transcend, and Sandisk cards. I have not had any failures with any of these brands. The only failure I have had with any memory card, going back to 1997, was a Lexar SD card that I retired a year or so ago. It still worked, but the plastic housing was separating and I was afraid that it might get stuck in the camera, so I trashed it.

Thanks for the thorough reply! After all the years I‘ve had DSLRs, I didn’t even realize that high ISO images took up more space. Lots of good info here.

 

[Spitfirejd]

My modus operandi when on vacation is to keep shooting on the same card day after day, but archive all new shots to my laptop every evening. I can go a week or two on the 128 GB card before it fills.

Once the new shots are on the laptop, I eagerly review them. I do some culling and preliminary editing. I want to see what shots I am getting, and learn from any problems that I see. I use Lightroom Classic for this. The culling/editing takes a fair bit of time, so I back up that effort (the photo folders and the LR catalog) to an external drive.

So I end up with copies of the pic files in 3 places: on the card, on the laptop, and on the external drive.

No matter how good a job of editing I do on the laptop, I have found I can always do better at home on the desktop with the nice big monitor. So I resist posting photos until I get home and do a proper job of editing.

Nice workflow. I haven’t had a laptop in years, they get obsolete so fast and they cost too much for how long you get to use them. I use an iPad most of the time and have an old Mac Pro for editing. Will probably upgrade that to a Mac Studio in the Spring. Haven’t quite figured out what my workflow will be when I get my camper next year and do a lot of traveling and shooting.

 

[RedCobra]

My modus operandi when on vacation is to keep shooting on the same card day after day, but archive all new shots to my laptop every evening. I can go a week or two on the 128 GB card before it fills.

Once the new shots are on the laptop, I eagerly review them. I do some culling and preliminary editing. I want to see what shots I am getting, and learn from any problems that I see. I use Lightroom Classic for this. The culling/editing takes a fair bit of time, so I back up that effort (the photo folders and the LR catalog) to an external drive.

So I end up with copies of the pic files in 3 places: on the card, on the laptop, and on the external drive.

No matter how good a job of editing I do on the laptop, I have found I can always do better at home on the desktop with the nice big monitor. So I resist posting photos until I get home and do a proper job of editing.

I do the exact same thing.
FWIW I have never had a card failure since my first digital cam the Canon D60 (not 60D)

 

[tpatana]

I think my first MP3 player had 4MB MMC card. Those were the times...

 

[AntonLargiader]

Archibald, you are going to have to step up your game here. I suspect this dinosaur was sold with one of my PowerShots in the ‘90s.