Buying Memory Cards

[black roadster]

I bought the wifey a new 7mp digicam for Christmas.

It has 32mb built in memory but it takes SD cards.

First question: How big of a memory card do we need? I'm leaning toward a 512mb-1gb card

Second Question: What brand of memory or does it matter?

Third Question: Where can I find the best price?

[Miatamoto]

You should probably get at least a 512 MB card since it's a 7MP. Check out this place. They find a lot of stacked rebates and have some really good prices:

http://www.xpbargains.com/

[RX7-2nr]

yeah. with that high of a resolution the pictures are going to take up alot of space. id probably get the 1gb just to be safe. the instruction manual may have a chart in it telling you haw many pics you can get onto a certain size SD card at each level of image quality.

[Kakkyo]

Agreed on the 1GB SD Card. For my girlfriend's 3.2 megapixel camera with a 128mb memory card, it can hold 158 images. So in theory, if you had a 1GB card you could hold about close 632 images at 7.0 megapixel cam rather than 316 images on a 512mb card.

[channelmaniac]

Hmmm...

I have a 6.3 Mega-Pixel Canon and it'll hold approximately 150 pics on the 512Mb card. It all depends on the resolution you use... If I use the Canon RAW mode it takes even more space and I get fewer pics on the card.

For the 7 MP, I'd go for the gig card.

RJ

[Kakkyo]

channelmaniac brings up a good point, the file format that the camera saves at does also affect the "mileage" you get with the amount of images you can have on a card.

The case example with my girlfriend's camera is in JPEG, for the sake of clarification.

[channelmaniac]

So does mine in picture format I chose on the camera... but the number of pics you get on the card depends on the resolution you take the pictures at (high, medium, low, fine, extra fine, or whatever your camera calls it) and the complexity of the images in the picture... some pictures compress down a lot with jpeg encoding and others don't.

RJ