Camera Memory Cards

Thought I would bring this thread back rather than starting another incase anyone was still looking for memory cards.
Been into Tesco's today they were selling off their 4gb SDHC cards priced at £15.99(not worth that) down to £5. Its this one on their site but cheaper instore.
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-3274.aspx
Cheap enough to buy a spare or 2.

Oh I found some too. I went in during my lunch hour. Wanted some lunch. Spotted 2G cards for 50p - took them all and still had the cheek to ask a staff member to see if there were any more in the back :rotfl2:. When she came out empty handed, I decided not to lose heart and took a handful of 1G cards for £1 each. Just figured out why I was so hungry when I got in tonight :laughing:

I was actually looking for the camcorder thread, but can't find it. Just got a Kodak Zx1. Wanted to see if anyone had any opinions (although I read at least 50 reviews first). Only cost $49 with a free silicon case, comes with rechargeable batteries and charger and free delivery on Amazon. :) But I'll need much more than a 2G card for that ;)
 
Oh I found some too. I went in during my lunch hour. Wanted some lunch. Spotted 2G cards for 50p - took them all and still had the cheek to ask a staff member to see if there were any more in the back :rotfl2:. When she came out empty handed, I decided not to lose heart and took a handful of 1G cards for £1 each. Just figured out why I was so hungry when I got in tonight :laughing:

I was actually looking for the camcorder thread, but can't find it. Just got a Kodak Zx1. Wanted to see if anyone had any opinions (although I read at least 50 reviews first). Only cost $49 with a free silicon case, comes with rechargeable batteries and charger and free delivery on Amazon. :) But I'll need much more than a 2G card for that ;)

This is the one I have been looking at. Still in two minds! Would you mind letting me know how you get on with it once you get to try it?
 
This is the one I have been looking at. Still in two minds! Would you mind letting me know how you get on with it once you get to try it?

I'll let you know. I am hoping it will come tomorrow - having it delivered to the office so I don't miss the delivery :laughing:. According to the reviews, the most common complaint is that some users get a humming noise on playback. However of those who complained, every single person who downloaded the firmware from Kodak (you can download it off their website) said that this rectifed the problem. As far as wind noise goes, you get that even with the best of camcorders. The BBC even has problems with this! ;) I don't mind about the absence of optical zoom as I am used to shooting videos with my camera which doesn't do the zoom on the video setting. For £50 you can't go too wrong. I really want to try it out for DD's sports day on Friday, courtesy of an hour or so out of the office to watch for a while - so if it comes tomorrow I will report back to you by the weekend.
 
This is the one I have been looking at. Still in two minds! Would you mind letting me know how you get on with it once you get to try it?

Well it arrived yesterday but I had to wait until quite late in the evening to set it up, thanks to a letter presented to me at 5 pm announcing that the school had a disco on at 5.30 :scared1: I just can't for these 11th hour communications!

Anyway, this is my interim review on what I have seen so far.

Quick and easy set up - batteries that come with it are rechargables but are precharged. I did note that they didn't have much life in them though so had to charge them overnight again but they were running fine today so no issues there.

Before it arrived I downloaded the user manual, as I had read that it doesn't come with one, however it did come with a quick start guide/leaflet which was more than adequate. I did a quick test run around the house. Nothing and no-onme really to film, but just wanted to see it was working okay. Great clarity so very happy there. It did however have the digital humming/hissing noise which was probably more noticable because I filmed in the dead quiet of the night. I knew that I would need to load the firmware 106 to address that issue anyway, so I downloaded that. Mobile broadband - painfully slow! Took over 2 hours. :scared1: Imagine my surprise when I saw that the file was only 62mb?! :confused3 Anyway, that went onto the SD card which went into the camera and it was a half minute process to transfer it to the camera.

School sports day today so I left for work armed with my new little toy :rotfl2:

I wasn't there too long so it was just a few fairly short clips but I have put them onto the laptop and they are pretty good. Especially considering the wind was howling! I don't know if it was just the direction it was coming from but I was really surprised that it wasn't an issue when I played the videos back.

All in all I am really pleased with this. It is perfect for my purposes. I wanted something lightweight and small, wanted SD cards so that I have the option of just carrying spares if I dont always feel like or have time to transfer the clips to PC. I will probably get one of the KLIC 8000 batteries. I see you can get the battery and charger for around £10 including delivery so it will be nice to have a spare.

Obviously I haven't had the opportunity to test this out in a variety of situations so I am sure other comments will follow, but feel free if you want any more specific info.
 

Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know how you are getting on, it is much appreciated. Good to know that the download sorts out the noise trouble. It sounds perfect for our needs, we always travel with the camcorder but it ends up being left in the house a lot of the time as it just too bulky to carry everywhere. I love the fact this can just slip in a pocket.

I am with you on the last minute info from school btw! How annoying, many an evening spent raiding the recycling box / ripping up old clothes for the following morning :eek:
 
7dayshop.com
SDHC 8gb Sandisc £10.49

Thanks! :thumbsup2 You could also try memorybits.co.uk. I got an 8G class 4 SDHC card for £12. Also, if you enter SPRING10 at the checkout you get 10% off. My google tool has been working overtime lately :laughing: I was just thinking this morning that this has been a good digital year for me: so far I have a new laptop, new phone and now a camcorder. I do like the odd spot of shopping. :lmao:

Oh, and I paid off my holiday this morning too. :yay:
 












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