Best Memory Cards for Olympus PEN-F

The Olympus PEN-F is a compact camera with 1 x SD memory card slot that supports UHS-II speed.

If you shoot plenty of action, video, or just want the fastest writing and transferring speeds, you’ll want to get a UHS-II card rather than UHS-I, since the writing speed is twice as fast.

Our favorite memory card is the Lexar Professional 2000x UHS-II 64GB. It’s UHS-II U3 so you never have to worry when it comes to videos, burst shooting or slow, boring transferring files.

After looking through many memory cards available, these are the top 3 (best price/speed ratio).

Best memory cards for Olympus PEN-F

• Lexar Professional 2000x UHS-II (300MB/s)
• SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I (95MB/s)
• Lexar Professional 1000x UHS-II (150MB/s)

Lexar Professional 2000x UHS-II

Our top pick: As we said above, the Lexar Professional 2000x is simply the best there is. It’s currently the best card that can easily reach ~90MB/s with the PEN-F so it’s more than enough for burst shooting at 5fps and Full HD video.

It even comes with a USB 3.0 reader, as well as Image Rescue software that can help recover your lost photos. Definitely a great deal for the money, but more expensive than both slower cards below.

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

SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB

For the price, the SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB (95MB/s) is hard to beat. It’s not as fast as the Lexar above, but it costs a lot less and will still be quick enough unless you mostly shoot sports. In fact, it’s one of the most popular cards for cameras that go up to UHS-I.

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

Lexar Professional 1000x UHS-II

The Lexar Professional 1000x 64GB is a slower, more affordable version of the first card. Instead of 300MB/s, it tops out at 150MB yet is still UHS-II U3 so the minimum will always be 30MB/s.

It’s less expensive than the SanDisk but it’s a fraction slower, despite being UHS-II. You will notice an improvement in read speeds (aka moving the images, displaying files etc.) but most of the time not in-camera.

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

Don’t buy memory cards from unknown brands or something that looks too good to be true. More often than not, those cards will fail right when you’ll need them the most.

A memory card is where all of your work is stored until you transfer that on the computer.

Make sure to get a card from any of the following brands: SanDisk, Lexar, Transcend and Kingston. There are a few good out there, but the 5 we mentioned are more than enough.