…you bought which enables you to take thousands of pics at highest quality (I think) - or high quality pics, etc., please.
I am not asking this to argue. I’m buying a digital camera (maybe a Canon) and want to get a memory card like your’n.
And if’n I buy a camera for ~ $150, what do you all suggest.
Please.
It’s spelt “y’all”.
Back to the OP. There are several different types of memory cards commonly used for cameras. You’ll have to be more specific. As a rule-of-thumb though, bigger is better. Hope that helps.
I’ve seen cards up to 8 gigabytes in catalogies. But the 8-gig cards are expensive, like, around a thousand dollars.
The OP I’m looking for said she got a hell of a deal on his memory card, but I don’t think he paid a thousand bucks. But then again, maybe her did.
Thousands of dollars!! :eek: What rip off catalog are you perusing?
Nextag has em anywhere from ~70 dollars to 300 dollars or so.
Thank you Epithelial. Now I know where to go and not get skinned.
Only kidding, Epimetheus, son of lapetus and brother of Prometheus.
I buy memory cards from NewEgg.com, they are quite inexpensive and have very good customer service.
For SD cards, the most common type found in cameras, they run around 1G for around $10, 2 G for around $15, and scale up from there. I’d recommend getting 2 or more smaller cards, rather then put all your eggs in one 8G basket.
Memory is dirt cheap, brands are mostly irrelevant at this point. For a $150 camera, performance is not an issue.
NewEgg is very good. I think I saw some 8GB SanDisk cards for 120-130 dollars.
You haven’t said what you are looking for in a camera, so it’s impossible to recommend only on price.
If you are looking for a compact with full manual controls and nice image/video quality, I’d recommend the Canon A570. It’s a bit more then $150, more like $180 these days, plus you have to buy NiMH AA rechargeable batteries, but it’s IMO the best entry level camera on the market today.
If you are looking for strickly point-n-shoot, no controls other then the very basics (ISO, White balance) you might look at the Panasonic FX-10, the Canon A460, or the Canon SD1000.
That was a couple of years ago. 
Ah, you had me worried there. FWIW, they have 16GB USB Flash drives for only around 150 bucks on NewEgg. Shouldn’t be long before they have 16GB memory cards.
See what happens when you get distracted? This is the fourth year in a row that I’ve been planning to get a digital camera, and then something else got in the way.
Here you go… CF only, though.
A word to the OP: Get your camera before buying a card, as a lot of cheaper cameras can’t read SD cards of 4 GB or more. All things being equal, three or four 1 GB cards are what I’d go for.
There are two types of cards that look the same, SD and SDHC. SD goes up to 4G; SDHC goes higher. Some cameras that support SD can only support up to 2G because the 4G SD cards are really a kludge, SD was only supposed to support 2G.
If you want a really big card in your camera (and I don’t really recommend it for a low end camera) make sure it supports SDHC. Otherwise, buy a handful of 1 and 2 G cards and go wild.
xD and Sony Memory Stick cards are much more expensive for what you get.