Best Memory Card Sony A6700

Recommended Memory Cards Sony A6700

The Sony A6700 features a single UHS-II memory card slot and is capable of shooting 4K 120p, or up to 11fps with photos with its 26MP sensor.

The best memory cards with this configuration would be UHS-II SD cards with the v90 rating. This would allow you to record with all the different video codecs and would give you the fastest buffer-clearing capabilities.

Do you need V90 UHS-II cards or V60 cards?

For Video shooters,  you need v90 cards at a minimum for H.264 at 600Mbps (XAVC S-I), or V60 cards for H.265 at 400Mbps (XAVC HS). XAVC HS is the more file format.

Photo shooters can adjust the card speed based on how often they find themselves burst shooting, if you’re bursting a lot, you may want to go for the fastest memory cards for your A6700 that are available.

Here are some recommendations for cards that work great in Sony cameras.

Camera Specs

Which Memory Cards Can Be Used For Which Settings

The camera will reject memory cards out of spec, it also rejects that old Sony M card that they recalled years ago.

Here are the memory cards that are required for general video recording.

Most cameras list their recordings in bitrate. You can get the megabytes per second out of that by dividing by 8.

400Mbps ÷ 8 = 50MB/s. So to shoot 400MB/s, you’ll want a card that guarantees a 50MB/s data rate which would be a V60 card. The 60 means 60MB/s.

For movie recording (When [ Proxy Recording] is set to [Off])

S&Q Memory Card Shooting

Here are the memory cards required for the different S&Q modes.

When you set the S&Q Record Frame Rate to 30p, 25p, or 24p and pair it with a Frame Rate of  120fps, 60fps, or 50fps for slow-motion recording, you’ll need a UHS-II V90 card. While the playback seems to be at 30/25/24 fps with a bitrate of 600Mbps, the camera is actually recording at double the frame rate, resulting in technically theoretically higher bitrate. However, during playback, it reduces the speed to match the Record Frame Rate, effectively cutting the bitrate in half as it stretches 60 frames shot into 30fps when played back giving you a 500 or 600Mbps final file.

This is why S&Q record modes are crucial, as they provide better quality compared to standard slow-motion recording modes. If you require S&Q recording, a UHS-II V90 is a must for the Sony A6700. Other features of the camera don’t demand such fast bitrates.

These charts are taken from the Sony User Manual.

Best Memory Card Sony A6700 – Bottom Line

While the fastest memory cards for the Sony A6700 will be V90 UHS-II cards and will maximize the capabilities of the camera, a casual photographer shooting in the modern H.265 codec should be able to save money on v60 cards and likely never notice the drop in speed.

Which brand of card you choose doesn’t matter very much with Sony cameras as compatibility is good with most cards out there, but you may want to consider some touch cards like Sony Tough, Hoodman Steel, or Delkin Black as they will keep your cards alive for longer as the plastic on standard cards does get brittle with age. I just had an old card snap on me a few days before writing this article.

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