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Powershot Digital
i just bought a A560 Canon Powershot digital camera and i need to get a Memory Card?

what is a good memory card brand?
what is a good memory size?
how pictures would that hold?
how much would it cost?
the card it came with only holds 7 pictures

Sandisk and Lexar are the best known memory cards for Digital Cameras. I am sure that the cards all pretty much perform the same, but these brands have a lifetime warranty for some of their products, so that makes me think they are built to higher standards. As far as day-to-day use, I have some generic and some of each brand I named and they all work. The contacts on the brand name cameras seem to have the equivalent of the "thunk" that you look for when you shut a car door to check it's quality, if you know what I mean. You don't wonder, "Is it in there right?" because it just feels right. I don't buy generics any more, though. I just end up getting them "with things" somehow.

Of course, you'll need a decent memory card and I recommend a genuine Sandisk Ultra II (60X) or Extreme III (133X) of at least 1GB - preferably 2 GB - for your camera. Lexar is another excellent card supplier and they have the "Professional" 133X as well as the Platinum II 80X to choose from. Both Lexar and Sandisk come with image recovery software that you copy onto your computer before you format the card and both have limited lifetime warranties. Nikon recommends these brands, as well as Toshiba and Panasonic. The manual states, "Operation is not guaranteed with other makes of cards."

You can get "normal speed" Sandisk and Lexar cards at about $20-25 for 1 GB and you can get "pro speed" cards for about $40 for 1 GB. You don't NEED a faster card (unless you shoot a lot of video), but check the packaging the the guarantee and to see if the lower speed cards come with the image recovery software. You might want this someday...

CANON 7 MP CAMERAS (SD750, SD1000...) 1 GB CARD

LARGE (3072 x 2304 pixels)
Superfine - 312
Fine - 502
Normal - 1,040

Medium 1 - M1 (2592 x 1944 pixels)
Superfine - 380
Fine - 678
Normal - 1,342

Medium 2 - M2 (2048 x 1536 pixels)
Superfine - 590
Fine - 1,058
Normal - 2,082

Medium 3 - M3 (1600 x 1200 pixels)
Superfine - 942
Fine - 1,678
Normal - 3,180

SMALL (640 x 480 pixels)
(VGA - useful only for e-mail and small web postings)
Superfine - 3,554
Fine - 5,494
Normal - 8,634

POSTCARD (1600 x 1200 pixels - allows date imprint)
Fine - 1,678

WIDESCREEN (3072 x 1782 pixels)
Superfine - 414
Fine - 670
Normal - 1,372

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