8GB SD Cards for Canon cameras

[tscheck]

How would I find out how large an SD card I can use in my Canon SD 850 digital camera.
My 2GB card works fine. How about a 4GB or 8GB card?

Tim


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[jekostas]

The 850 supports SDHC cards, so you could conceivably get as high capacity card as you want and it will work (I believe current max is 16GB)

[Beowulff]

Personally, I never use anything larger than a 2GB card — in case the unforeseeable happens, and I end up with a corrupted card with 800 unrecoverable image files on it!

Rather than use an 8GB I'd therefore use 4x2GB, and I'd certainly never use a 16GB card.

The 40MB/45MB/sec 8GB Kingston Ultimate 266X sells for around $175, compared to 4x "ordinary" 2GB Sandisks for around $48. I know which I prefer!

Cheers :)

[teko]

The 40MB/45MB/sec 8GB Kingston Ultimate 266X sells for around $175, compared to 4x "ordinary" 2GB Sandisks for around $48. I know which I prefer!


Wow, SD cards are expensive in Australia...

Here are the prices in Canada:
- 2GB 40x (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=24083&vpn=CT2GBSD&manufacture=CRUCIAL%20TECHNOLOGY&promoid=1066)
- 2GB 133x (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17712&vpn=PEF2G133SD&manufacture=Patriot&promoid=1066)
- 4GB Class 6 (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25056&vpn=PSF4GSDHC6&manufacture=Patriot&promoid=1066)
- 8GB Class 6 (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=24236&vpn=PSF8GSDHC6&manufacture=Patriot&promoid=1066)
- 16GB Class 6 (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=26213&vpn=PSF16GSDHC6&manufacture=Patriot&promoid=1066)

I'm guessing it's even slightly cheaper in the states.

I do like the idea of having multiple cards, but sometimes you don't wanna carry all of them with you. And if you take a lot of videos, you will need a larger SD card.