I am thinking of buying a Canon A620 digital camera. How do I know what digital memory cards will work with it? Looking at Amazon.com, it recommends a "SanDisk SDSDH-1024-901 1 GB Ultra II Secure Digital Memory Card", but there is also a "SanDisk SDSDB-1024-A10 1 GB Secure Digital Card" that customers bought instead. What's the difference, and could they both work? HELP! SanDisk makes fantastic cards and I use that brand exclusively for my digital SLR. Apart from making different types of cards (Compact Flash, SD, etc.), SanDisks also come in 3 speeds: regular, Ultra ll, and Extreme lll. You pay more for the faster cards, but they are all equally reliable and durable. Faster cards make sense if you have a fast camera. With my digital SLR, it makes a real difference when I do continuous shooting - the camera writes to the card faster, so the camera buffer fills up slower, so I can squeeze in more shots. With the Extreme lll in my Nikon D200, I can do 22 shots at 10 megapixels at 5 fps before the things slow down.
With an A620 however, the camera itself will be the bottleneck in performance - not the type of memory card. Paying extra for the Ultra ll would be pointless.
P.S. The A620 looks like a great choice for the price: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona62... Check you camera's guide, but I'd say go with number two. I don't know if Ultra II will work with your model. It isn't going to matter whether you get a high speed card, unless you do a lot of movie files or long movie files. That's the only suggestions they have in the manual.
Oh, and 2GB is the largest that adheres to the SD standard, so that's what they recommend. |
