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I do this with my D7000, I use a SD card called an eye-fi which creates a wifi network my ipad connects to. Then I download the eyefi software and it will look for the card and download the images. Since it's just for review, I make the eye fi my second card in jpeg basic and my first card raw format. Images transfer and you can review pictures for focus or motion blurs quickly on a much larger screen. In the past you needed to jailbreak the ipad to do this, but that's no longer needed.

Amazon link to Eye-fi

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That my friend is a sony m2 memory card. Here is one on amazon.

Also note that these are standard SD not micro SD. SD cards have had those speeds for awhile, I have a 30mb/s sandisk in my camera. Micro SD speeds haven't quite made it up that high yet.

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If you're brand new I would highly recommend the book Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson. It's an awesome book that will teach you the fundamentals you will use along the way. Here

Another important thing is a good memory card. I loved my D90 and SD cards are much cheaper than the CFs I have to use in my D300. I used to used transcend cards like this one It comes with the card reader too which is something you should definitely invest in. They're faster for putting the photos onto your computer and also they get rid of the risk of connecting your camera to the computer and having some type of short circuit or something ruining the brand new expensive camera. I say get 2 cards at least the more the better. Cards will fail and it's good to have a backup I always have 2 or more of everything.

To clean my camera and lens I always use my Giottos rocket blower and a lenspen and a microfiber lens cloth to clean my lenses and body.

You're probably going to want a new camera strap if you're using that too. I used this one on my D90 and it was super comfy and strong.

Depending on how much you're shooting you could also get a second battery if you're going to be out all day somewhere with your new camera. Don't get fooled into thinking you always have to buy Nikon brand. For a lot of accessories you can get the cheaper 3rd party versions and they'll do you just as well if not better most of the time. I had this battery with my D90. Lasted longer than my Nikon one!

I saw you asking about a flash. If you want a nice flash that will do everything you want without really breaking the bank definitely look into the nikon sb600 if you can find one used it's an awesome flash! I would be hesitant to get the Sb400 because you may eventually want more from the flash and then you have to pay more and upgrade. The sb700 looks to be pretty nice but also pricier. If you're only going to be doing off camera flash which I doubt you can check out a Vivitar 285HV flash.

Then comes the tripod. Don't cheap out when looking for a tripod. Remember that it's holding your multi thousand dollar equipment so don't cheap out. They say when buying a tripod you have: price,weight,sturdyness and pick any two. There's a million different tripods out there. I have a manfrotto 190xprob but wish I would have spent the extra money on the 055xprob.
Check out these make sure you look at how much weight it can hold and then make sure it's a few pounds more than you think you'll be putting on it to be safe.

This little remote was awesome I still have mine actually if you want to buy it for pretty cheap i'm sure I could help out.

If you already want another lens depending on what you're shooting a great walk around lens is the Nikon 35mm 1.8 it's the equivalent of a 50mm on a DX (52mm ish) Here or maybe you like portraits more and sweet bokeh check out the 50mm 1.8D Here also a great lens.

You're going to need something to keep all of this in so check out a nice camera bag. Take a look at some of these I have the kata 3n1 Medium and a Tenba shootout to hold all of my stuff and the Kata is great for when you have some gear and walking around town or hiking or something.

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While I do use M at times unless you're shooting using studio lighting and everything controlled I don't really recommend it. People say you have to use it to learn photography but I don't agree at all. I have my camera on Aperture Priority 90% of the time. You still have to control your ISO and aperture (f#) but the shutter speed is taken care of.

Remember it's digital so just keep shooting and changing things until you get what you want. That's the beauty of it all. Have fun and enjoy it.

If you want to see some reviews of some of the products I mentioned I did some on youtube Here and a few photoshop beginner tutorials.

If you have any more questions about stuff just ask I might have forgot a few things. Most importantly get out shoot and have fun with it all!

I got 21.4MB/sec reads with this card.

I would usually recommend Lexar Professionals or Sandisk Extreme Pros, but since you aren't writing large files at a fast rate this card should suffice.

Does it have to be a USB drive? How about an SD card? Since the more expensive one's are being used in high-end cameras, if it's name brand, it really needs to perform as advertised. I'm currently using this one. I can't vouch for its read speed, but it certainly appears to write at the advertised 30MB/s.

My laptop is dual boot, with the Windows partition as the default option. If I don't select the Ubuntu boot partition within 3 seconds, I get Windows. So does a thief. I have a guest account and an admin account.

The Ubuntu boot partition is unencrypted and contains the kernel, so if my attack model involved espionage, I would keep this partition on a thumb drive instead and let Windows control the MBR. (I used to do this, but it got tedious to remount it every time I needed to upgrade the kernel. I still keep a tiny, flat USB stick in my wallet, but it no longer contains my boot partition.)

The Ubuntu boot partition knows how to ask for a passphrase unlock my third partition, a logical partition encrypted with LUKS. Unlocked, that contains an LVM with three volumes: The OS, /home, and a reasonably large swap.

Like an Eye-Fi?

This

Using three of these, they're working extremely well. I stayed away from SanDisk, since apparently a third of them are knockoffs.

Sorry I can't help you, but If you need a new one to keep, Amazon can get you one by Friday with Prime for $10.

I've recorded 30 minutes plenty of times. Again, I have a Canon t2i rebel. My card is this one:

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-32GB-Extreme-Pro-SDSDXP1-032G-X46/dp/B004JJQN8G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320994783&sr=8-2

It works just fine!

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Flash-Memory-SDSDXP1-016G-Black/dp/B004JJN262/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300684509&sr=8-2

Sales happen for flash memory, things get cheaper every year.

Sorry, here is the link. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002UT42UI/

Would this card be a good, fast option?