How much memory?

[msteddom]

Hi guys,
I just bought my first digital, and now I need to buy memory for it. I'm not really a camera enthusiast, but I do want to take plenty of pictures of my upcoming trip. So lets say I plan on taking about a hundred or so pictures. How large a memory card should I buy? I don't want to spend a fortune, but I don't want to run out of space mid-way through either. Thanks!

Melissa

 

[Armandocme]

We have a 5mp camera and had a 512mb memory. We took about 220 pictures on it at the highest resolution possible for our camera. We had a long vacation (11 days) and I probably needed about twice the memory (towards the end of the trip I had to go through my pictures to see what I could delete so I could take more pictures).

 

[Anewman]

Hi guys,
I just bought my first digital, and now I need to buy memory for it. I'm not really a camera enthusiast, but I do want to take plenty of pictures of my upcoming trip. So lets say I plan on taking about a hundred or so pictures. How large a memory card should I buy? I don't want to spend a fortune, but I don't want to run out of space mid-way through either. Thanks!

Melissa

You live in SoCal.

Just head down to Frys and buy which ever card is on sale.

Currently have a Patriot 2gb SD card $39.99 out the door.

And If you dont use SD cards they always have something on sale, just look at the ads they have next to the door.

 

[Kelly Grannell]

from my article on my photo blog:

how much memory is enough for my upcoming trip?

There is no real answer to the question. The sky is the limit, or in this case, your wallet is the limit.

However, you have to think and think hard. What kind of a photographer are you? The new-school-of-digital kind? The ones who take pictures upon pictures upon pictures without thinking, ending up with 4,000 photos in 5 days then discard about 3,857 pictures once you get home? or are you the old-school kind? The ones who compose the shots in the head, then take the picture, ending up with 300 photos in 5 days then discard about 50 pictures once you get home?

I'm the second one. To be more accurate, I'm the second one to the extreme. Not because I'm good or anything, but I was trained under the situations where I can only take no more than 300 photos in 10 days way back when film was king. Now I treat digital the same way I treat my films. I restrict myself even further by taking ONLY JPEG. There is not much room to fix your photos if you use JPEG. Time constraints restrict me even further. I don't have time (or the energy) to colour correct every single picture I took. I download them to my PC and the most I would do are noise reduction for all my ISO 1600 and ISO 3200 shots (I just use bath process for these) and the ocassional level adjustments.

Personally, I recommend everybody to do the same thing I do. This way your face doesn't get stuck onto your camera all the time, you save money in buying memory cards, and you save time selecting/editing/deleting them.

Just my 2 cents, which in the Internet Currecy Exchange amounts to nothing.

Cheers!

 

[msteddom]

You live in SoCal.

Just head down to Frys and buy which ever card is on sale.

Currently have a Patriot 2gb SD card $39.99 out the door.

And If you dont use SD cards they always have something on sale, just look at the ads they have next to the door.

Thanks for the tip! I was able to get a 1 G card for $29.99. That should be plenty!

Melissa