Should I buy a 1gb or a 2gb

[yrdlyprincess]

I have a Olympus C-60 (6.1) & my Dad has another Olympus takes the same card which is a 10 megapixel. With 2 kids I tend to take alot of pictures...they are big MOVERS!! Thanks for any help!

[jann1033]

i have a little bit more mps on my camera and usually shoot raw so that uses more space as well but i find a 1gb just isn't large enough for me..i always seem to run out during the day where as the 2 gb usually last me all day and then some..not a catastrope since i have a few cards, just a pain...the only good thing i can think of with a 1 gb is if you and your father were going to share cards you could each use one but with his 10 mp esp. i'd probably still go with a 2 gb for each.

[SueInBoston]

I have a Olympus C-60 (6.1) & my Dad has another Olympus takes the same card which is a 10 megapixel. With 2 kids I tend to take alot of pictures...they are big MOVERS!! Thanks for any help!

I would recommend more than one card incase something goes wrong with one, you would have a backup.

[Groucho]

You can often find 2 gig cards for cheaper per meg than the 1 gig cards.

However, Olympus cameras take xD cards, so the usual rules might not always apply... I would lean towards a 2 gig myself, though there is value in multiple cards - but I assume that you already have at least one or two cards.

[SharonLowe]

The 2 gig xD cards are nice and I believe cheaper than 2 1 gig cards so I would go with the 2 gig but definitely have at least one other card for back-up. My dd has an Olympus and if we set it to shoot raw, it doesn't take long to use up that 2 gigs!

[GrumpyOne]

Something to keep in mind is that if you want to make high-res movies, you'll need the "H" version of the card, which isn't currently made in 2GB that I was able to find a couple of months ago.

[webshark3]

I would recommend more than one card incase something goes wrong with one, you would have a backup.

Playing devil's advocate :) Flash memory is pretty reliable. You hear more stories of people dropping or forgetting their multiple memory cards than you hear about flash failures.

Label your cards with contact information...

[MICKEY88]

Playing devil's advocate :) Flash memory is pretty reliable. You hear more stories of people dropping or forgetting their multiple memory cards than you hear about flash failures.

Label your cards with contact information...

I agree plus swapping out cards is one of the biggest risks for card failure. bent contacts etc.

[webshark3]

I agree plus swapping out cards is one of the biggest risks for card failure. bent contacts etc.

Bent contacts for Compact Flash, but I think they're using xD. So no risk of that. But you are right. The hot humid Florida air messed with the battery contacts in my Pentax P&S.

[handicap18]

I have 4 1GB cards and 3 2GB cards. I'm thinking of adding more 2GB cards. Flash memory is getting so inexpensive that its worth it to have a few extra.

[MICKEY88]

Bent contacts for Compact Flash, but I think they're using xD. So no risk of that. But you are right. The hot humid Florida air messed with the battery contacts in my Pentax P&S.

plus the risk of remvoing a card with the camera still turned on, not always a good thing from what I've heard..

[yrdlyprincess]

1st- I only have the other card which holds like 21 pictures ( I don't know what it is--32mb??)
2nd- I was thinking of when I'm down there to take the card @ the end of the day to the photo places & get them to download the pictures on to a cd (But I don't know about the cost for that)

I wonder if I should just buy another camera!! I really need something like a point & shoot- but I want a long zoom - I don't see myslef enlarging pictures bigger than 8x10 (sometimes I do 11X14 --but only 2x's a year)

[Groucho]

I don't think there's any danger of bending contacts on SD cards, and nearly every camera automatically turns itself off when you open the door that covers the card slot. Of course, if there's not a cover, you can just yank it, but it should be no different than pulling out a floppy disk while it's being written to (or a USB drive) - you'll probably get some lost clusters and the last file will be useless, but as long as chkdsk/scandisk is run ASAP on it, everything else should be just fine.

Flash memory is probably the most reliable place for the data (outside of a tape backup), but it's still not bulletproof, as we all know.

yrdlyprincess, burning them to a CD there is slow and expensive - and remember, if you want to dump a 2gb card to CD, that's three CDs that will have to be burnt. That'll get really expensive fast. (I think it's around $13 on site to burn the CDs, to say nothing of the time wasted waiting for it. So $39 for 2 gb worth - that's a good bit more than just buying another card!)

Other options are bringing a laptop with a CD/DVD burner and burning copies yourself, or there are standalone devices that will copy your memory card to a hard drive. Hard drives are the least reliable places for data though, so ideally you'd have two identical setups, for redundancy.