Canon Cameras

memory card for Canon digital camera?

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?

Public Comments

1. My 1gig is blue and red, it doesn't say a brand on it. It's been good..
2. 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.
3. 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!)
4. I own Sandisk (1&2gb) and it's working great. I recommend this brand.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. look at your manual and they recommend makes and size of cards in it. would use a recommended make- i use sandisk
8. Sandisc 1GB ultra 11 Plus. You can plug it straight into your usb port to download pcs.
9. 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). http://dcresource.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php?page_id=152&sortby=popular-&vendors%5B%5D=0&popup1%5B%5D=50%3A105&popup1_attr_id%5B%5D=105&popup2%5B%5D=0&lo_p=0&hi_p=0&mode=dcrp_memory
10. 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.