good 1 or 2GB + card for S1 IS movies?

[pianoplayer88key]

Hi. I was wondering what cards are good for movie recording on the Canon S1 IS? (640x480 fine, 30fps).
I've been looking on ebay, and assume high-speed cards (Sandisk Ultra II, Lexar 40x, Kingston Elite Pro, for example) should work fine, but I'd like to know what other cards, or ones that aren't speed labeled, would work, or what their write speed ratings are, like Toshiba, standard Sandisk, standard Kingston, etc.

[JPW2020]

I use an S2 IS but last year did a lot of movie recording on an S1 IS.I used a Hitchi 2GB Microdrive and a Sandisk 1GB(standard).I had no problems with either.With the Microdrive I got up to about 3.5 minutes clip at highest quality,with the Sandisk slightly less but that was good enough for me.Within those parameters I had no problems at all.Avoid any unknown brand of card.Hope that helps.

[David Metsky]

You don't need a high speed card to record at the highest video mode. My SD300 has the same video mode (640x480, 30fps) and records just fine with a regular Sandisk card. But since prices have dropped so much, there's almost no cost savings there.

Pretty much any card will do.

-dave-

[Rhys]

I use a 1GB non-name CF card and get 8 minutes or so in high-quality VGA. Be aware that you can't take longer videos as the internal buffer is only 1GB. Also be aware that there's a lengthy pause as the video is written to the card from the buffer. Faster cards won't speed the system up.