Help with camera memory cards please.

daveyjp

Reduce the quality and you won't need as big a card. I have a 10meg camera, but set it to about 2 or 3 meg which is more than enough for excellent A4 prints. At this level my old 256meg card gets over 200 pictures.

f1charlie

gaming_guy wrote: »

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

I'm surprised. I know you would get a lot fewer for RAW. Is this the 450D you've got? A search throws up claims of 16-19MB per RAW image which would come out at 125 images on a 2GB card. Another claims to get 228 RAW images on a 4GB card which would correspond with the previous figure.

But I haven't got the camera and you have so I won't argue!

f1charlie

daveyjp wrote: »

Reduce the quality and you won't need as big a card. I have a 10meg camera, but set it to about 2 or 3 meg which is more than enough for excellent A4 prints. At this level my old 256meg card gets over 200 pictures.

I would always shoot in highest quality to give more options for editing afterwards, after all, memory cards are not expensive now.

Ldn_2

www.memorycards.co.uk <- Memory card comparison site

DCFC79

pLus if you do find the memory card getting full you can transfer the pictures to the pc

fedupconsumer

those play.com generic ones are good value and reliable too.