I'm getting a Canon A540 digital camera. What brand & sizie memory card should I get?

Sandisk and Lexar come bundled with image recovery software that you copy onto your computer before you format the card. 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) of at least 1GB for your camera. Lexar is another excellent card supplier and they have the "Professional" 133X as well as the Platinum 80X to choose from. The Platinum or even Lexar's 40x would be good choices. Both Lexar and Sandisk come with image recovery software and limited lifetime warranties.

u should to bye the memory about 1gb or 2gb !

i have a sandisk 1 gigabyte card and it hold over 400 pictures
its great

the memory card should be at least 1 gig and the write speed should be 133x[150 kb/sec=1x}. the brand should be one of the following lexar or pq1 or san disk. generic brands might not give you what you want and might corrupt the information. non name brands could cost you less and be only 4x write speed [the card would only have the amt of memory on the card not the write speed so be careful in what you pick]

2 GB Memory card. Holds more pictures or video clips