memory card speed for S2

[sparkyspark]

Hi, have just got my first digital camera but unsure which memory card speed to buy as I don't know upto what speed the S2 can support.
I was looking to get a 1GB Sandisk Extreme III or the Kingston Ultimate x133 or Lexar memory card but is it worth buying these superspeed cards if I cannot get the maximum out of them.
Any suggestions regarding what fellow members already use or have if they have found any advantage in using the faster rated cards over the lower rated cards would be much apprieciated.
Thanks for your patience to a newbie in advance as I have checked existing articles and cannot find a direct answer for the S2 speed ratings.

[TampaJim]

All you need for unlimited burst shooting is 60-66X. If you don't care about that - even a regular "slow" card will do. Anything above 60-66X is not going to improve the camera speed at all - the only increase will be in downloading the card to a PC. However, a completely full 60-66X card (1GB) downloads in an extremely short period of time ... so I doubt you would even be able to tell the difference.

Ciao!!

[sparkyspark]

All you need for unlimited burst shooting is 60-66X. If you don't care about that - even a regular "slow" card will do. Anything above 60-66X is not going to improve the camera speed at all - the only increase will be in downloading the card to a PC. However, a completely full 60-66X card (1GB) downloads in an extremely short period of time ... so I doubt you would even be able to tell the difference.

Ciao!!

Thankyou for the quick reply, point taken will just get a standard 1gb card and see how we go.
Many Thanks

[yuppicide]

I heard the highest any camera goes is 80x so anything else useless.

[TenD]

The movie mode also needs a fast card, so if you into taking movies with your new camera, then spring for a 66x card. A 133x is probably overkill.

[sparkyspark]

THANKS for your help.

[BowerR64]

Watch out buying cards on e-bay, ive read about people relabeling them and the cards are lower quality 1gig cards that are crap shoots as far as working. Everyone that had memory problems always had a 1gig card.

[FLiPMaRC]

I bought my 2GB 133x Corsair SD card from www.newegg.com for $60

[BowerR64]

Yeah newegg is good, that about the only place i get my computer stuff from.

[David Metsky]

The movie mode also needs a fast card, so if you into taking movies with your new camera, then spring for a 66x card. A 133x is probably overkill.

The movie mode on the S2 is the same as on my SD300. A regular Sandisk card keeps up with all movie modes so that is all that is needed, unless there's something different about the S2 movie mode.

-dave-