Digitial Cards SOS

Albert_32

I have just bought a Canon Ixus 40 Digitial Camera, it only has 16Mb card.

I went on e-bay to purchase a 256mb card and was somewhat confushed by about 8 diffrent type of SD cards - Compact Flash, SD Digitial secure etc...

Can any one shed light on what all these variations are for?

Should I buy a brand like Toshiba or cheap as chips 'Kingston' brand?

E-bay a good place to buy?

I just want to take pictures and a few movie clips I would appreciate taking some time out to help me as I am not the sharpest on all this teckie stuff!!

Thanks,

Albert

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I think your confusing the various cards. Compact flash is a different format - not an SD card.

So you need an SD card - this wil have SD in the name. SD = secure digital.

Such as this cheap one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000APYN5/qid=1112525993/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/026-9498055-0009218

I wouldn't pay extra for a brand like Toshiba. Ebuyer.com is a good place for prices.

Whitefiver

Ebuyer have free shipping for many SD cards, try:-

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=6517926735&action=c2hvd3N1YmNhdGVnb3J5X3BhZ2U=&subcat_uid=446

I have had good results from the Kingston brand, and 256Mb cards are £14.48 delivered.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

White

nbt

I would highly recommed looking for "hi-speed" SD cards. Normal SD cards have a write speed of around 1.2 mb per second. Since you have a 4mp camera, that means it will take around 3 to 4 seconds to write an image to the card. if you ant to takea few imagesquickly (for instance taking sequence shots of action events) then the on board memory will fill up very quickly

I've recently switched to hi-speed and have noticed a vast improvement. I don't get the claimed10mbs wrte speed frommy bytestor card (512mb, from amazon) but it's certainly noticeably faster than the previous regular style card. this is probably to do with the speed at which the camera can feed the information through -dmine is a Digital Ixus II and it's now almost two years ols