Comments on: Which Memory Card Should I Buy?

By: Olan Pays

Olan Pays — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:03:18 +0000

I also used 16GB cards since I capture lots of videos with my Nikon Coolpix camera. I prefer to use more than one card to avoid missing that precious moments if I had trouble with a card.

By: Earl Wilkerson

Earl Wilkerson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:35:41 +0000

I’ve used SanDisk for a few years now in a variety of digital cameras and camcorders, even USB flash drives. However, due to the sudden and unexpected death of a few cards shortly after purchase I’ve fully converted to PNY, given their impressive quality in the PC memory market.

By: Ian Southward

Ian Southward — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:36:02 +0000

I used a 16gb card recently on a trip to Amsterdam airport (the name should point you to what I photograph instead of the other attactions of Amsterdam), anyhoo, I was also in Sydney and in Auckland earlier in the year and using 2×16gb cards I found there was a latency to write (sandisk 16gb) on both, and that the quality was not as good as I had hoped. even shooting raw, could this latency cause this degradation? it doesnt sound feasible but it did happen in amsterdam but I had no problems in Auckland…. the air must be cleaner!
any ideas?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:38:15 +0000

Why won’t my mother’s camera read pictures on my card….when both cameras use the same size/format memory card?

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:56:48 +0000

Found the whole discussion of memory cards interesting I have very recently changed from buying CF cards from unknowns to sole Sandisks currently 2 x 2Gb, the main reason is that my 350D has pretty well giving up trying to read them without resetting the card and the battery and this and that etc etc etc, Rather annoying. Now for my query based on the above. Has anyone else had this problem ? is it possibly a camera fault ? I have had no luck with Canon themselves. Any help would be good .

By: Denis

Denis — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:45:02 +0000

Thanks for the info, Raf. I’ve been looking all over the Web for that, including reading all of the 400D’s specs on Canon’s site. They don’t give that info there.
What I find interesting though, is the the Canon rep told you this camera’s maximum card size is 8 GB, and on Sandisk’s site, it says 16 GB… hmmm… If I get a chance to try both myself, I’ll post the result.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:50:55 +0000

FYI, some cameras like fujifilm finepix s700 accept only up to 2Gb.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:28:45 +0000

Raf,

You really got a lot better answer than I did from Canon. My person just said they didn’t collect that kind of information. I sent them the WEB site noted in this group – but never got an answer back

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:42:31 +0000

I’ve just got an answer from Canon Helpdesk…here you go!

Dear Customer,
Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding your Canon product.

In response to your query, please be advised that we recommend using memory cards with a speed of 9-10 Mb/s. Using a higher speed memory card will not make a big difference.

Also, please note that with the EOS 400D you can use a memory card up to 8Gb.

Yours sincerely,

Canon Support Centre

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:29:55 +0000

The max write speed for the Canon EOS 400D?
That’s what I want to know too!
I can only assume the write speed has increased since the 350D but if you look at rob galbraith’s performance test it should have almost doubled in order to justify the need of an extreme III. Is this possible?