Matching memory speed to camera?

Bert Hyman wrote:
> I'm looking at a 1GB or 2GB card for a Canon S3 IS (I'm assuming it
> will take a 2GB card; will it?).
>
> Canon doesn't seem to give any indication about speed requirements
> for memory cards for their cameras.
>
> So, how do I find out just how fast a card must be to work with a
> particular camera?
>
> When looking for "compatible" memory at Sandisk's Web site for
> example, they suggest their "Extreme III" or "Extreme II" line,
> although they don't give any reason for doing so.
>
No camera runs faster than 9 mbps, so anything faster than a SanDisk
Ultra II is a waste of money.
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Not Disclosed wrote:
> Bert Hyman wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at a 1GB or 2GB card for a Canon S3 IS (I'm assuming it
>> will take a 2GB card; will it?).
>> Canon doesn't seem to give any indication about speed requirements
>> for memory cards for their cameras.
>> So, how do I find out just how fast a card must be to work with a
>> particular camera?
>> When looking for "compatible" memory at Sandisk's Web site for
>> example, they suggest their "Extreme III" or "Extreme II" line,
>> although they don't give any reason for doing so.
>
> No camera runs faster than 9 mbps, so anything faster than a SanDisk
> Ultra II is a waste of money.
>
Some people want faster downloads.
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:38:27 -0500, tomcas wrote:

>> No camera runs faster than 9 mbps, so anything faster than a SanDisk
>> Ultra II is a waste of money.
>
> Some people want faster downloads.

Yes, and others may also want today's cards to work at full speed
with future cameras. ("I won't buy any new xxxx cameras because
they won't work with any of my old yyyy cards")
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In article <Xns989E9FB8597D6VeebleFetzer RemoveThis @127.0.0.1>,
Bert Hyman <bert RemoveThis @iphouse.com> wrote:
>I'm looking at a 1GB or 2GB card for a Canon S3 IS (I'm assuming it
>will take a 2GB card; will it?).
>
>Canon doesn't seem to give any indication about speed requirements
>for memory cards for their cameras.

Yes, the Canon S3 does accept 2GB SD cards.
Most of the camera's features will work even with slow cards. Higher
speed cards are only necessary for longer full-sized videos or long
bursts of high-speed continuous shooting. With a slower card, those
features will slow down or stop until the card catches up with the writes.
To get those features to work completely (i.e., until the card is full),
you'll need around a 60x card.
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Bert Hyman wrote:
> I'm looking at a 1GB or 2GB card for a Canon S3 IS (I'm assuming it
> will take a 2GB card; will it?).
>
> Canon doesn't seem to give any indication about speed requirements
> for memory cards for their cameras.
>
> So, how do I find out just how fast a card must be to work with a
> particular camera?
>
> When looking for "compatible" memory at Sandisk's Web site for
> example, they suggest their "Extreme III" or "Extreme II" line,
> although they don't give any reason for doing so.
>
Interesting hat you should ask this question at this time. I have an older
Canon with 7.2mp and nothing is said about card speed anywhere that I can find,
but I just bought a new Casio, and the manual discusses this in some detail.
Basically, it says that if you are going to be taking "movies" or photos in
rapid succession you should use at least a 10X card or faster, but otherwise the
standard will do fine. I also bought a 2GB card and it doesn't say anything
about speed so I assume it's less than 10X and it works great! I'm after volume
rather than speed and I can get about 800 shots at 7M and almost 1,500 at 3M (3½x5).

bj
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Cgiorgio wrote:
> Practically any of the current SD cards will do. There is a specification
> out for "SDHC" high speed cards, but that has to my knowldege not been
> implement in any current camera design.

It has, at least by Canon in some of their newer
cameras. The G7 will use SDHC and I believe others.

Main plus is memory capacity .. which is speced to
32 GB (I think).

Phil
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Bert Hyman wrote:
> I'm looking at a 1GB or 2GB card for a Canon S3 IS (I'm assuming it
> will take a 2GB card; will it?).
>

It will. I use 2 GB SD cards in my S3 IS. Some
have reported using SDHC cards in an S3, but I do
wonder, since I've not found support to that newer
spec in the manual.

> Canon doesn't seem to give any indication about speed requirements
> for memory cards for their cameras.
>

Sandisk Ultra II is plenty fast for the S3 (the
main need for speed is shooting continuous or in
movie mode). Faster cards may transfer images to
the computer faster, but do not improve camera
performance.

Phil
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ASAAR wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:38:27 -0500, tomcas wrote:
>
>
>>>No camera runs faster than 9 mbps, so anything faster than a SanDisk
>>>Ultra II is a waste of money.
>>
>>Some people want faster downloads.
>
>
> Yes, and others may also want today's cards to work at full speed
> with future cameras.

Sure glad I didn't pay extra to get an "turbo" 64 MB CF card 4 years ago.
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Bert Hyman <bert.DeleteThis@iphouse.com> wrote:

> I'm looking at a 1GB or 2GB card for a Canon S3 IS (I'm assuming it
> will take a 2GB card; will it?).
>
> When looking for "compatible" memory at Sandisk's Web site for
> example, they suggest their "Extreme III" or "Extreme II" line,
> although they don't give any reason for doing so.

Apparently speed is important. I have a SanDisk 1GB SD card and every
time I fill it up from my DiMAGE Z7 I have a couple dozen images that
are "UNRECOGNIZED FILE FORMAT or CORRUPTED". I then load PhotoRescue
from www.datarescue.com and it finds the files and recovers them minus
their original name. However, it also recovers the meta data with the
file so the names are there within the files.

I have 4 - 512MB SD cards from Lexar, PNY, SanDisk and Dane Elec and
they never have this problem. I bought 2 more 512MB SanDisk SDs so I
can avoid using the 1 GB SanDisk.

Sandisk recommends both the Standard 1GB and Ultra II 1GB for my camera
but my experience indicates otherwise. Apparently there is more of a
compatibility problem with the higher capacity cards.

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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:28:07 -0700, timeOday wrote:

>> Yes, and others may also want today's cards to work at full speed
>> with future cameras.
>
> Sure glad I didn't pay extra to get an "turbo" 64 MB CF card 4 years ago.

Well yeah, back in the mists of the USB 1.1 days not even the
fastest card readers would have helped much. But did you ever
figure out why your camera's video clips were limited in length to 7
seconds when your non-turbo 64MB CF card should have been able to
create video clips as long as 55 seconds?
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