Have just purchased a Canon Ixus 800 camera- what memory card should I buy?
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it uses an SD card. go to www.newegg.com and order a high speed name brand card. You'll enjoy at least 1Gbyte. 2Gb if you really want to store a lot.
Sandisk or Lexar are always good. There are other brands as well, but don't go too cheap. the $10 you save isn't worth the reliability and speed risks.
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.
I'd get a 1 GB or 2 GB Sandisk Ultra II, just as Morey000 suggests. Vote for him as the best answer, because he got back to you first.
Jessops are doing a special offer at the moment a 1gig card is £19.99
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