what MD card to buy?

[worldpease]

Hi guys
in a few days I might go to on a couple of vacations,
so for the first time since I bought it, I think it would be a good idea to get a memory card for
my Samsung Digimax 301, cus 16 mb of internal might not be enough.
So I went to a few websites and this is what I found:

-128Mb : $10 Panasonic
-512Mb : $13 Patriot Sig...
----1G : $19 PQI

-at Frys / US Dlls)

At the moment Im not on a big budget,
that's the reason for the low prices.

[lynx]

From Samsung's figures you can store about 160 photos at 1600x1200 superfine quality on a 128MB card.

I can't think of many reasons why you would want to take many vacation photos at that sort of resolution/quality, or why you would want to keep more photos than that - people will find you boring if you show more photos than that.

The trick is to take a few photos of each subject, then review them later and delete all but the best. Professional photographers do exactly that, before digital photography they had to keep them all. A few still keep all their shots just in case there's something in the background they missed which may later prove to be newsworthy, but for the average user that's just a waste of time.

The patriot seem the best value.

[worldpease]

From Samsung's figures you can store about 160 photos at 1600x1200 superfine quality on a 128MB card.

Where did you get that?

The trick is to take a few photos of each subject, then review them later and delete all but the best.

Yes, that is exactly what I do.

[lynx]

From Samsung's figures you can store about 160 photos at 1600x1200 superfine quality on a 128MB card.

Where did you get that?

Capacity (6MB) Approx:
1600: Super fine - 8, Fine - 15, Normal - 22
1024: Super fine - 17, Fine - 31, Normal - 45
640: Super fine - 37, Fine - 65, Normal - 90

8 in 6MB -> 20 in 16MB (approx) -> 160 in 128MB

OK, to be more accurate, 8 x 128MB / 6MB = 170, but who's that picky?

[Seedler]

[QUOTE=lynx]

OK, to be more accurate, 8 x 128MB / 6MB = 170, but who's that picky?

Pfff...Some people

[suprafreak6]

dude just go with the 1gb it cant hurt to spend 9 more money's

[mikeco]

ull be looking at 1-3mb pictures dapending on the camera and settings.

id say go for a 512mb or a 1gb, 1gb if ur doing videos or ur wanting to take loads of pictures.

i dont see how u can say ur on a tight budget, $20 isnt very much for a card dude, just go for it u and ur wife or who ever can just spam loads of photos.

[Seedler]

1gig if you ever plan to shoot vids.