If I'm to buy any kind of hardwear I tend to go for recommended brands or makes or ones that I've used before. I was at a festival last year and I already have a Polaroid "2GB SD card (as it's a well known photography brand) and had used all the memory and wanted to keep all the pictures I had taken! I expected it to be expensive at a festival and cost me £20 from the same place a single battery was £2 so I don't recommend buying hardware at festivals unless you're desperate! As an actual device, it works the same way any other SD card does. The only way I could be critical of it is when uploading photos to the computer. I recommend rather than cutting ...  Read the complete review

As a professional photographer I've used a substancial number of SD cards varying in brand and size. While this verbatim card is not a high end one (ie. the writing speed isn't as fast as some other cards) the quality is still excellent - in the last 3 years I have never had a card fail or corrupt on me. As mentioned above, this card doesn't have the fastest of writing speeds (the sandisk ultra range exceeds the abilities of the verbatim in this respect) but for the purposes of most people the verbatim is adequate - it just means that if you want to shoot in burst mode, the card may not be able to handle it for too long. As far as the memory capacity is ...  Read the complete review