Which SD Card for new 60d

Just ordered a 60D and have no SD card, I've been CF cards until now.

Also no experience with HD video. How much storage do I need to store 5-10 minutes of HD video.

Is 16GB enough as a good overall card. I see Sandisk makes a HD video specific card!

Thanks

My experience also. Why Canon will not keep using the much more stable and faster CF cards is a mystery to me. It just confirms my suspicions that the 60D is a reworked Rebel rather than an updated 50D.

Anyhow I bought the Lexar 32GB Professional (rather than one of the 64Gb SDXC which my iMac computer would not recognize) and am using my old 16GB Lexar Professional CF card for file storage. I figure that with the inclusion of a HD video function, we need all the memory we can get.

By the way, the corresponding 32GB Lexar Professional CF card is almost exactly 2X the speed of the SD!

16gb will get you about 2 hours of 1080p video.

HaroldC3 wrote in post #11113481
16gb will get you about 2 hours of 1080p video.

Actually it'll probably give you about 48 mins of 1080p video. 4gb is about 12 mins.

Ren Tachino wrote in post #11114185
Actually it'll probably give you about 48 mins of 1080p video. 4gb is about 12 mins.

Ah yes, my mistake. I'm not sure where I saw that.