Digital Camera Memory Cards
Digital Camera Memory Cards
Executive Summary about Digital Camera Memory Cards by David Peterson
memory cards for digital cameras
A digital camera accessory you should purchase is a spare memory card. What is a memory card?
Fortunately, prices of memory cards have come down dramatically in recent times.
What type of card your camera takes, and how large a memory card you wish to buy.
What memory card type does my camera use?
Another feature to keep in the back of your mind when purchasing a new memory card is the card’s speed. The faster your memory card speed, the faster your camera can write it’s image to the card, and the quicker you can take another photo. The actual speed will be the LOWEST of either your camera’s fastest transfer speed (see your camera’s manual) and the memory card’s speed.
How many memory cards do I need?
I recommend you have at least two memory cards for your camera.
Care of cards
More expensive cards tend to withstand more pounding.
Other Memory Card Tips
- If you transfer lots of images to your computer, purchase a card reader. – Contrary to popular opinion, airport x-ray machines will not damage your camera’s memory cards. – Turn off your camera when inserting or removing memory cards. Taking the memory card out while the camera is writing to the card could wreck both your card and camera.
Making the Most of Digital Camera Memory Cards
Executive Summary about Digital Camera Memory Cards by Dave Saunders
If you are new to digital cameras, the digital camera memory cards are the most important parts of any digital camera, without which they may not work at all.
Something many new digital camera owners find counter-intuitive is that bigger is not always better with a digital memory card. The speed that your camera writes new pictures to the digital memory card is partially dependant on the transfer speed of the digital camera but is also dependant on factors in the memory card itself. Memory cards that have “buffers” can take the data into a faster type of memory and then transfer the data from there to the slower “flash memory” which provides the main storage of almost all digital camera memory cards.
When you delete an image from the memory card of your digital camera, the flash memory is “reconfigured” because of special issues having to do with how this memory stores data.
Now the question arises-how many memory cards are enough for your camera? On an average basis, you must have at least two memory cards for your digital camera.
Most professional photographers choose to carry about four to six memory cards. Because memory cards can malfunction (just like traditional film canisters, but not as often), you should choose to have at least two memory cards at all times.
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