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Sep 05, 2016 14:54 |  #1

I have a Sony A6000 and was wondering if I up graded to a faster memory card if it would increase my shot buffer?


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Sep 05, 2016 16:20 |  #2

Your camera is limited in various ways other than pure card speed when it comes to clearing the buffer, like the speed of the card controller (in case of SD cards), the buffer speed, and so on. In many cases you'll see diminishing results or no improvement after a point, where the bottleneck becomes the camera hardware itself.

In the case of the A6000, you may see improved results up to 60MB/s, but no more than that, mostly when it comes to clearing the buffer after a long burst of shots at 11fps. This is based on user comments I've found on various sites.


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Sep 05, 2016 17:30 |  #3

I have been using a 80mps 32 gig card for a while and found that after about 15 shots the camera starts to lag. I am going to do a test with the 150mps card that I have but just wanted some clarification. I was hoping that I 300mps card would help speed up the camera.


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Sep 06, 2016 09:47 as a reply to  @ ThomasDidymus's post |  #4

I think you may be mixing up speed measurements. 1x is equivalent to 1.2Mb, so 100x is 120 *Megabits* per second, or 15 *Megabytes* per second, which is the unit of measure I'm talking about. 60MB/s means a card speed of 400x for example.

If you have an 80MB/s card it shouldn't be that slow, at least for this camera.


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