Have you seen how far the flash memory prices have dropped?
I’ve a nice 500MB memory card for my little baby computer that really shows its age when I say that it cost about $150 when I bought it yet that was only about five years ago.
Today of course we’re talking GB when we talk about flash memory and it’s getting to be so cheap that the suppliers usually start at several GB for even the cheapest cards these days. In fact, it’s now at the point where it would be considerably cheaper to just buy new cards than it ever was to buy the equivalent number of photographs on a roll of film.
However, as always with technology, we’re starting to get into incompatible standards so you need to have a good read at what your camera can handle before you decide to buy a massive memory card for it. If it’s more than a year or two old then your upper limit is 2GB and may be as low as 1GB. Anything beyond that and you need one that supports SDHC as all the latest high capacity SD cards conform to that.
But then, do you really need it anyway? My 10MP Nikon D40X can hold several hundred photos on a 2GB card even at the highest resolution settings. That’s the equivalent of around 10 36 exposure films. I never took more than that on even the longest holiday so although the camera can take SDHC cards I don’t see me needing any of them anytime soon.
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