If you own a camera that offers XQD memory card support, I’m going to hazard a guess that you’re a professional photographer (or a lucky/wealthy amateur!) As such, you’ll only really be interested in mid-high capacity XQD cards.Ĭameras that support the XQD format currently include the Nikon D500, Nikon D850, Nikon D4/D4s, Nikon D5 – hopefully we’ll be seeing more and more cameras released which support this gold standard in memory card formats soon. Of course, you can always choose to shoot multiple smaller capacity cards, but I don’t recommend this for professionals for the reasons outlined above. Large capacity cards are usually used by wedding photographers, sports photographers, wildlife photographers, or anyone else who needs to shoot thousands of photos a day. Then there’s the big daddy, the SanDisk Extreme Pro 512 GB SDXC UHS-I – you’ll have to shell out about $280 for one of these. The best options which allow large data storage include the SanDisk Extreme Pro 128 GB SDXC UHS-I which costs around $65 and the SanDisk Extreme Pro 256 GB SDXC UHS-I which costs about $130 – this is what I use for my wedding photography work. If you shoot multiple high resolution photos in succession with cameras such as the Sony a9 II, or Nikon D810, you may want to invest in these larger capacity memory card. The format here is SDXC, with the ‘XC’ referring to their extended capacity. There’s not much point me writing separately about the large capacity best memory cards since they all have similar performance, just at varying sizes.

Memory cards for digital cameras