What size memory card should I buy?
I'm often asked by people: What size memory card should I buy? The majority of the time, I advise them that memory cards are cheap, so they should buy the biggest they can afford, but when budget is tight or when you may not be taking very many photos it becomes a bit confusing as to what size to go for.
Here's a rough guide to let you know how many photos you'll fit on a memory card. This chart assumes you will be using the highest image size / quality setting on your camera:
| Image Size | |||
| Size of Card | 2-4mp (1mb) | 5-6mp (2mb) | 7-8mp (3mb) |
| 16mb | 15 | 7 | 3 |
| 32mb | 31 | 15 | 10 |
| 64mb | 62 | 31 | 21 |
| 128mb | 125 | 62 | 42 |
| 256mb | 250 | 125 | 85 |
| 512mb | 500 | 250 | 170 |
| 1gb (1024mb) | 1000 | 500 | 341 |
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4 Comments:
At 6:58 AM, December 01, 2005,
madeleine said…
hi joshua, many thanks for your hard work.
yesterday a guy in the shop told me i won't be needing a high speed card (SD) for my powershot S2 IS. he said the speed only makes a difference for DSLR. do you agree or disagree?
thanks for yor help.
take care
madeleine
At 2:25 AM, January 10, 2006,
Joshua said…
Hi Madeleine, thanks for the question. You may need a high speed SD card for the highest quality video settings on some cameras, however for most photography a high speed memory card shouldn't be needed (unless you take a lot of continuous shots). Hope this helps, Josh
At 11:48 AM, February 08, 2006,
Boniface said…
Hi,
I have this cam 'Mercury Cyberpix S-330' its a good cam but the flash is too weak is there any way how I can get the flash going for a longer time course when ever I switch on the flash it drains the battery completely.
Thanks
Bonie
At 10:23 AM, February 04, 2008,
Anonymous said…
Hi Joshua,
Now that 16gb memory cards are becoming more available (and coming down in price to the £50 mark), how can I find out which cameras are compatible with these larger memory cards ?
Manufacturer's specifications (and all the reviews that I've read) seem to be silent on this issue.
Or is it just that, for example, if a camera takes a CF card it can take ANY size of CF card ?
Mike
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