I bought a new Canon A710 IS digital camera and something must be wrong. After I take only 7 pictues it says the memory card is full. I thought a memory card can hold at least a hundred images. What is wrong???? Yeah, it's full. The 16 MB card that comes with the camera is more like a little thank you note from Canon than anything else.
Get a 1 GB card and you will be able to save the following:
LARGE (3072 x 2304 pixels)
Superfine - 312
Fine - 502
Normal - 1,040
Medium 1 - M1 (2592 x 1944 pixels)
Superfine - 380
Fine - 678
Normal - 1,342
Medium 2 - M2 (2048 x 1536 pixels)
Superfine - 590
Fine - 1,058
Normal - 2,082
Medium 3 - M3 (1600 x 1200 pixels)
Superfine - 942
Fine - 1,678
Normal - 3,180
SMALL (640 x 480 pixels)
(VGA - useful only for e-mail and small web postings)
Superfine - 3,554
Fine - 5,494
Normal - 8,634
POSTCARD (1600 x 1200 pixels - allows date imprint)
Fine - 1,678
WIDESCREEN (3072 x 1782 pixels)
Superfine - 414
Fine - 670
Normal - 1,372
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Sandisk and Lexar are the best known memory cards for digital cameras. I am sure that the cards all pretty much perform the same, but these brands have a lifetime warranty for some of their products, so that makes me think they are built to higher standards. As far as day-to-day use, I have some generic and some of each brand I named and they all work. The contacts on the brand name cameras seem to have the equivalent of the "thunk" that you look for when you shut a car door to check it's quality, if you know what I mean. You don't wonder, "Is it in there right?" because it just feels right. I don't buy generics any more, though. I just end up getting them "with things" somehow.
Of course, you'll need a decent memory card and I recommend a genuine Sandisk Ultra II (60X) or Extreme III (133X) of at least 1GB. The 60X should be fine unless you do a lot of continuous mode (sport) shooting or a lot of video. Lexar is another excellent card supplier and they have the "Professional" 133X as well as the Platinum 80X to choose from. Both Lexar and Sandisk come with image recovery software that you copy onto your computer before you format the card and both have limited lifetime warranties. did you format the memory card before using it ?
that is what the manual tells you to do. You need to buy a separate memory card to function. Start from 拢10 go to the camera shop and get a 512kb or 1GB one. LOL verify that your memory card is formatted and also, go through the cameras menu and see if there is a setting for where to store your pics... ex. camera or memory card.. For a start I would need to know how big the memory card is to help you further but it sounds like you only have a 250MB or a 512MB card which means you need a bigger one |
