Are flash cards “designed” for cameras worth it?
It depends a lot on the camera. Most consumer cameras don’t support the increased write speeds (for example, Lexar’s Write-Acceleration format), but this varies tremendously from model to model. For DSLR’s, there are benchmarks available at RobGalbraith.com. There are a few benchmarks for different consumer cameras (examples: Nikon Coolpix 990, Nikon Coolpix 995), but since consumer cameras go through models so quickly, I don’t know of any site that specifically tracks write speeds for different brands of media for each camera model. The bottom line is that the more expensive cards won’t hurt, since these cards also tend to be more reliable (supposedly). Whether you’ll actually be seeing any noticable speed difference though (either faster or slower) is a complete crapshoot if y
