Help with camera memory cards please.

xxdeebeexx

Hi I bought one of these canon cameras for my 10 year olds birthday and was wondering about a memory card for it. I don't know anything about quality or if they are all the same. He likes 'making movies' so I guess, the bigger the better

I have seen a couple and was hoping that I could have some comments before buying

Amazon / Amazon 2 / Play.com / Jessops

TIA

Dx

isofa

Also have a look at www.mymemory.com too good prices and range.

Any SD or SDHC will work with the camera, you can pay more for faster and better warranties cards. Personally I've always used SanDisk cards, such as the ones you've picked, they are high quality, I use the standard ones for snap cameras and their top of the range series for my DSLR camera, as I need the speed from them.

Note the Amazon links you've posted aren't directly sold from Amazon, but by third party Amazon traders.

PS Never buy this type memory from eBay you'll end up with fakes!

f1charlie

Also www.w2w.com for good prices.

Sharon87

www.7dayshop.com is good, however it does take a while to deliver on occassions. Only use them if you're son's birthday is about 4 weeks away.

xxdeebeexx

Thanks for your replies.......
Just one more question..... how many photos would a 4 GB memory card hold remembering that the camera is 7.1 mp ??

TIA

Dx

MX5huggy

At least 500

xxdeebeexx

MX5huggy wrote: »

At least 500

Thank you!! That should be big enough

Dx

gaming_guy

MX5huggy wrote: »

At least 500

more than that seeing as i can get nearly 700 from a 12mp canon DSLR.

SJames_3

1000-1250, somewhere around there, I think. 7MP should produce a JPG of 3-4MB.

f1charlie

gaming_guy wrote: »

more than that seeing as i can get nearly 700 from a 12mp canon DSLR.

Are you shooting at the highest quality? I get 400 on a 1GB card from a 5MP camera, so i would have thought you would get fewer than 700.

Here's a table with numbers:

http://www.digicamhelp.com/accessories/essential/memory-card-capacity.php

gaming_guy

f1charlie wrote: »

Are you shooting at the highest quality? I get 400 on a 1GB card from a 5MP camera, so i would have thought you would get fewer than 700.

Here's a table with numbers:

http://www.digicamhelp.com/accessories/essential/memory-card-capacity.php

afaik, its set to the highest setting (12mp fine) as i can only get around 300 when i shoot in raw.