Could you give me a quick answer?

[KarenB]

So I bought a new camera (Nikon CoolPix L120) about a month ago, but never really got to sit and play with it. Now that our vacation is here I went out yesterday and did a little experimenting using the Easy Auto setting, which is fine for me for now. My computer crashed of course, so I can't look at these shots on a larger screen to see how my "playing around photos" look. I think will be fine though.

Anyway, here is the confusing part. When I ordered the camera, I also bought a 16G memory card. I felt I should have a back up memory card so I went to Wal Mart (very limited shopping here) and started talking to the person in the photo dept. He said the biggest card I want it a 4 G, that a larger one like the 16G I have will not work!!!

Yikes---now what should I use? Is this true? I leave tomorrow....

Thanks!

 

[photo_chick]

Walmart employees have enough training to be dangerous. Really, in the photo department the average employee is taught basic operation of the 1 hour machine and how to run the cash register. So take what they say with that in mind.


If the card is a type specified in your manual for your camera, it will work. There are different types of SD cards out there, as well as different speeds. Make sure you check your manual for what works with your camera. Though I'm betting the Walmart guy is probably wrong here.

 

[KarenB]

Thank you! I sure hope I didn't bite off more that I can chew with this camera. Our trip is tomorrow and I really wanted to play more than I had the chance to. Now that I am really looking at it, there are SO many options. I am hoping if I just keep it on auto mode, the camera will do the rest.

 

[YesDear]

Your Manual says the camera will take up to a 32g sdhc card. If it is a regular SD card then it will only take a 2gb.

 

[alloyd1170]

The other thing, it is better to have several smaller memory cards than one big one. Knock on wood, it hasn't happened to me, but they can fail. You wouldn't want all your pictures on one card-if it fails, gets deleted, gets lost, stolen, etc. Better to spread out a vacation's worth of photos over several cards than all on one! Another option is to back up your photos (or transfer them) each night to a portable hard drive or your computer (both is best, however that sounds like it won't work if it crashed).

Your manual will tell you the max size your camera can handle. As cheap as memory cards are these days, I'd go ahead and pick up several small ones anyways.

 

[anthony2k7]

agree with this, plus you've got the problem of if you have too many photos in a folder on a usb source that Windows can be painfully slow accessing and transfering them whilst it insists on reading all file info and generating the thumbnails (So annoying!)