camera memory sticks available at gift shops?

[Shorty82]

I really like my cybershot 7.1m .. I really do. The only reason I was thinking of the newer cybershot was because the memory stick pro's are harder and harder to find as Sony went with the memory stick duos. I know there is a converter but I don't trust it with my family vacations.

I have a Pro Duo card that I use with an adapter. I had no problems at all from it on my trip a few months back. It is getting harder to find regular Memory Sticks anymore, I looked all over before finally giving in and buying the Pro Duo.

Looking at the adapter there's not much to it. It's just lengthens and thickens the Duo card and has conductors to extend the conductors on the card to the ones in the camera. There's no computer chip or anything to go wrong. As long as you push the card all the way in the adapter you shouldn't have any problems.

I even dropped the camera onto concrete one time causing the card w/ adapter to pop out of the camera and the card and adapter to separate. Got a little panicky for a minute that I lost the card as it is so small but my brother saw it. I was afraid something might have messed up on my camera or the card but nothing did, just a few scratches on the bezel around the lens. If the camera had been on I might have damaged the lens as it sticks out past the bezel but thankfully it was off. If something had happened to the card I would have been really upset as this happened on the fifth day of my trip and was the only card I was using at the time. I would have lost over 280 pictures if it had gone bad.

Somy makes their Cypershots tough, that's for sure. It survived an over 3 foot drop onto hard concrete, a hard enough drop to cause the door on the side to open and the Memory Stick to pop out.

 

[praline3001]

I have to totally agree with you on the cybershots being tough!
My DH is a boy scout leader and I have 2 boys in boy scouts ... they take my camera all the time on hiking and camping trips

We are a rough and tumble crew and I can't count the times my camera has been dropped! If it can survive a week of boy scout summer camp I think its indestructable

I did pull out my owners manual and it talks about the duo cards being very easy to use and blah blah blah... I saw the small 254 duo card at walmart SUPER cheap. I am thinking of picking it up the next time I am there just to test the adapter. If it works to my satisfaction I will get a few of the 4 gigs. I like to take a lot of video clips to add to my video scrapbooks so I can easily see me using 3-4 4 gigs in a week

 

[polkadotladybug]

Now see - I'm cheap - If I thought I MIGHT need a card or two, I would buy them at home - NOT Open them - Keep the RECEIPT - and take them with me - and if I didn't need to use them (ie open them) - I would take them unopened and unused back when I got home.

I'll never forget when we went on the Wonder several years ago - I left my brand new 8 mm videotape for my camcorder sitting on the kitchen table (so I had NO video!) - I had to suck it up and buy a tape from the gift shop - it was 17 bucks for ONE tape - and I had TWO sitting at home - just bought - I had them out to label - They are probably more expensive from them now (or maybe no one uses 8 mm LOL) - but that's when I decided I'd rather have it from home, than buy it at "Disney cost".

 

[MICKEY88]

Well, now you are on the Photography Board! Welcome. We are a nice, fun loving group that are here to help.

That being said, I will tell you 2 things that you will probably hear:

Upgrading one point and shoot camera at 7.2 MP to one that is 12 MP may result in dissapointing photos for you. Especially in lower light situations. More MP does not always add up to better pictures. This is especially the case if the sensor size is the same between the two cameras. This is not too hard to find out. Let me look:

I think the sensor on the 12MP may be slightly larger than that of the 7MP, however, the following webiste says this (as I suspected).

"However, when it comes to image-related performance and image quality, the W200 tanks, mostly because of that unnecessary 12-megapixel sensor. Though it's physically larger than the 8-megapixel sensor in the W90, the pixels still must be insanely small. That's the only reason I can think of for the W200 to be such a light vampire, simply incapable of exposing shots at ISO 100 that most snapshot cameras can handle without problem. I too often found it necessary to boost the ISO setting to at least ISO 400 in order to use a reasonable shutter speed--even with SteadyShot enabled--while shooting in very bright sunshine."

That would be enough to make me stick with the 7MP. If it ain't broke, don't buy a new one.

this doesn't make sense, 2 cameras using the same aperture, in the same light, should get the same shutterspeed regardless of sensor size..

 

[MICKEY88]

What ever you do with your camera situation, don't put all your pictures on a single card. If you were going for say a week, and left all your pictures on the same card, and on day 7 your card fails, you have no memories of your trip left, and no time to go back and try and recapture any of them.

Get yourself a couple of smaller cards, and better yet, transfer them to something safer every evening. I take my laptop and burn dvds.

Your just asking for heartbreak working with a single stick.

as always, I'll be the one to counter this thought, the more you insert and remove cards from your camera, the more you increase the chance of card failure..,

I shoot daily with an 8 gig card, with no problems,,, I'm about to buy a 16 gig card.....

 

[Master Mason]

as always, I'll be the one to counter this thought, the more you insert and remove cards from your camera, the more you increase the chance of card failure..,

I shoot daily with an 8 gig card, with no problems,,, I'm about to buy a 16 gig card.....

But would you trust your entire weeks vacation to a single card? I bet you back them up at least every other day don't you?

 

[MICKEY88]

But would you trust your entire weeks vacation to a single card? I bet you back them up at least every other day don't you?

an entire week of vacation wouldn't fit on one card...LOL

my standard routine after a day of shooting, is upload to pc if at home, when on vacation, copy to one of my portable storage units.., then format the card in camera, then recharge camera batteries.

I also tend to buy a new card every 6-12 months, making the new card my primary card and the others become secondary ...

the 16 gig card will actually probably stay in the package until march or april when I get my new dslr...

 

[Master Mason]

And that was more my point, you could get by with a single card, I went for almost 2 years with a 4g and 2-1g back ups, the 1g very seldom ever entered the camera, but I downloaded each day.

But a lot of folks don't download till they reach home, and then I would be very concerned if everything was on a single large stick.