memory card for Canon digital camera?

Question

I want to buy a 1 gb SD card for my canon powershot camera. What brand is good in market. i don't care about price, only I need is reliablity and durability. Further do you recomend 1 or 2 GB card?

Answer 1

I'd suggest Sandisk or Lexar. They are the top brands that pros use. They come with warranties and they also come with pre-loaded image recovery software that you download onto your computer before you format the card. A 1 GB card is probably adequate, but if you don't care about the price, just see if you want to pay the difference for a 2 GB. Buy a fast card, though. You WILL see a difference. Sandisk makes some nice higher speed cards in SD format (and others) with a lifetime warranty. The Ultra II is "mid range" high speed and Extreme III is ultra high speed. We have an Extreme in my wife's D50 and never had a problem with write speed. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click.....

The benchmark of 1X is a transfer rate of 150 KB per second.
40X is a common card, so the transfer rate would be 6 MB per second.
Sandisk Ultra II claims a minimum write speed of 60X or 9 MB per second, and a minimum read speed of 66X or 10 MB per second.
Sandisk Extreme III claims a minimum write and read speed of 133X or 20 MB per second.

I KNOW about the D50, so I wrote thia about it a while ago. Perhaps it will help you decide. The largest 6MB photos on a D50 camera seem to be about 3 MB, so it seems that an Ultra II could save 3 high data images per second, while an Extreme III could save 6 high data images per second. The D50 continuous mode gives up to 2.5 frames per second, so you could be gathering about 8 MB of data per second. If you do not have at least the Ultra II or equivalent, it is easy to see how a 5 or 6 MP camera would bog down at times.

Answer 2

No. Sony has their own memory cards for their brand that doesn't work with any other brand. A majority of other cameras (including canon) use SD memory cards.

Answer 3

SanDisk brand is pretty much the standard for these cards. If you have a camera under 10 megapixels then a 1 GB card is a large amount of storage. Get the normal one, not the extreme version (extreme is something you might need if you have a digital SLR and shoot in RAW mode alot).

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Answer 4

Go to http://www.newegg.com/

Using the links on the left side, navigate to:
- Digital Cameras & Accessories
- Flash Memory
- RITEK
- Compact Flash (CF)

I've got a RiDATA 4GB CF in my Canon DSLR and it's fast and trouble-free. Newegg has fantastic prices on RiDATA CF cards, and they come with a lifetime warranty. You can get a 1GB card for $21 or 2GB for $35. Highly recommended.

Answer 5

1 GB is cheap now - you can get it for less than 20 euro / 3 pounds

even 4 GB cards are usable I think, and you can get these from about 65 euro / 90 pounds

Brand is not really important, most common cards are already good for decades of use.

Answer 6

there's a brand that makes the card-i think it's like a red, blue, yellow, and white card. they make good memory cards for my canon powershot sd400.

Answer 7

I use San Disk Pro SD cards for my Canon Digital!
Never Had any problems!
You can get 1,2, 3 and 4Gb SD Cards with Faster Access for reading and writing information.

They say you can Freeze them, Boil Them and Re-use them with out any Glitches!!(Never tried it-but it wouldn't suprise me!)

Answer 8

I own Sandisk (1&2gb) and it's working great. I recommend this brand.

Answer 9

Sandisc 1GB ultra 11 Plus.
You can plug it straight into your usb port to download pcs.

Answer 10

My 1gig is blue and red, it doesn't say a brand on it. It's been good..