Kingston 512MB Secure Digital Card for £17.99 (merged threads)

Searcher2

masterblaster wrote:

available new for £21.93 at Amazon Marketplace
quoted as even cheaper than Amazon !

Errrr... more accurately "available new for £21.93 + £5.01 P&P at Amazon Market place!" which makes is more expensive than buying from Amazon and significantly more than the original post!!!

masterblaster

Bloody cheek Marketplace adding postage costs !

Bit like the Aria 1gb card at £40 but £8.50 postage ! (not currently showing on their site but was yesterday)

so back to the chase then

stressedoutmum

I need a memory card for my new digie camera. I only take point and shoot pictures and occasionally use the video mode and will put them on my computer (when I learn how). Would this memory card do me as I don't understand what the "high speed" means. Thanks

Searcher2

stressedoutmum wrote:

I need a memory card for my new digie camera. I only take point and shoot pictures and occasionally use the video mode and will put them on my computer (when I learn how). Would this memory card do me as I don't understand what the "high speed" means. Thanks

You don't need a high speed card for just taking the odd photograph.... but you do need to know what type of memory card you have in your camera. Have a look in your manual and it should tell you - or take the memory out of your camera and see what it says it is. The most likely type of cards are : Compact Flash, Memory Stick (will be this type if your camera is a Sony), Secure Digital (SD) or Smart Media. Once you've established the type of card then you can start looking for the best deal.

mrm3

Viking 512MB Secure Digital Card £23.99 inc VAT
Kingston 512MB Secure Digital Card £24.02 inc VAT
and loads others

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masterblaster

A week in the sun at half term, dont want to run out of storage space with the digi camera. Cant decide whether its better to have several lower memory cards or one big one ! I'm sure someone out there can unscramble my thoughts on this ?

Totoriko

Get one big card, it's more convenient to carry and you don't need to change cards in the middle of shooting because the one in the camera ran out of space.

hollie.weimeraner

Personally I would plump for 2 separate cards. They do go faulty at times, I have just returned one to Lexar for replacement, and the last thing you want is for a card to go faulty and not have a backup. Alternatively buy the 1 gb and a smaller backup.


Re Mymemory I have just ordered a Uniross 15 minute sprint charger with 4 batteries £26-99 and a Lexar 40X 512MB CF card at £29-99. Both items are the cheapest I could find them by far.

EvilMonkey

Totoriko wrote:

Get one big card, it's more convenient to carry and you don't need to change cards in the middle of shooting because the one in the camera ran out of space.

+ve's for 1 card
More convenient to carry
Change over inconvenience
Tiny loss in total # of pictures stored (due to a slightly higher overhead on the file systems of 2 cards over 1)

-ve's for 1 card
All your eggs in 1 basket

On the whole, I disagree with the post above as the cards are tiny and hardly inconvenient to carry around and the eggs \ basket thing is something that would concern me. (whereas the other 2 reasons don't worry me at all)

I've had 1 card go kapput on me and even if you think thats a small risk my parents had there camera stolen (with the card, obviously, inside). On my honeymoon I took 2 cards and swapped them each time I was back at the hotel, if for ANY reason one card dies / went missing, I hadn't lost all our photo's. Paranoid? possibly, but it's a simple thing which my parents thanked me for when they still had half their holiday pics!

Doublespresso

great price!

http://www.mymemory.co.uk/memory/Kingston/512MB/Secure/Digital/Card