Best Memory Cards for Olympus OM-D E-M10 III

Want to buy the best possible memory card for your Olympus OM-D E-M10 III?

The camera has 1 x SD memory card slot that supports UHS-II speed. Don’t worry if you don’t know what this is, we’ll get to it in a second.

The E-M10 III also features 4K video recording and 8.5 frames per second, which means you shouldn’t just get the cheapest card available unless you want problems in the future.

Speed Class of SD Cards

As we mentioned above, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 III supports UHS-II cards. This means you should spend a little more money to get a UHS-II card if you want the fastest possible results.

If you’re going to record lots of 4K videos or shoot wildlife and often use burst shooting, you’ll want UHS-II. Otherwise, UHS-I is still very fast and perfectly usable.

With UHS-II, file transferring to your computer will also be much quicker.

Go with a 32GB or 64GB sized card (from $10 to $25), and buy a couple of these if you need lots of storage. It’s better than buying one huge card because you risk losing all of your shots if that 1 card fails.

These are the best 3 SDHC/SDXC memory cards you can get:

• SanDisk Extreme Pro 95MB/s UHS-I U3
• Lexar Professional 300MB/s UHS-II U3
• Transcend R95/W60MB/s UHS-I U3

SanDisk Extreme Pro 95MB/s UHS-I U3

The SanDisk 64GB Extreme Pro 32GB U3 is our favorite card, seeing as it’s inexpensive and provides writing and reading speeds near 90MB/s.

The speed makes it perfect for whatever you’re doing; fast bursts with large megapixel cameras, 4K video, let alone Full HD at 60fps. It comes in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB sizes. It is UHS-I but if you want something cheap and great, this is your option.

You can buy it at Amazon or see more reviews here.

Lexar Professional 300MB/s UHS-II U3

The Lexar Professional 300MB/s UHS-II U3 offers faster speeds for both writing and reading files. The Olympus E-M10 III supports UHS-II so if you’re willing to spend a bit more, you’ll speed up every process related to the camera.

Don’t have a memory card reader that supports such speeds? Luckily you get a free Lexar UHS-II reader that’ll greatly reduce the waiting time. You also get a free downloadable Imaging Rescue software. It comes in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB sizes.

You can buy it at Amazon or see more reviews here.

Transcend R95/W60MB/s UHS-I U3

The most affordable on our list, yet still UHS-I, is the Transcend 64GB UHS-I U3. In terms of reading speed it goes up to 95MB/s, while for writing the maximum is 60MB/s.

Transcend, just like Lexar above, gives you the option of downloading their free image recovery program and they both work pretty good in most cases. It comes in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB sizes.

You can buy it at Amazon or see more reviews here.

Comparison of the 3 Memory Cards

What Brands are the Best?

Your photographs and videos are stored on a memory card, so you should definitely not try to save any money here by buying from unknown, cheap brands. While you save a few bucks, you probably won’t even get the advertised speeds, and are at a bigger risk of losing your shots.

We see too many beginners choosing the cheap route here, but until you transfer your shots to a computer/online, this is where they’re stored at. You want the memory card to be the most reliable piece of your equipment!

Stick to Sandisk, Lexar, Transcend, Kingston, Sony and Toshiba. There may be a few other good brands out there, but the ones we mentioned are already more than enough and offer great prices.

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Last Updated on September 14, 2021 by Nick Voorhees