hi, so i've just purchased the fujifilm a170 camera and need a memory card to go with it.
I'm looking at the Sandisk SDHC 8gb or 16gb memory cards
How many photos will each card hold? I'll be using the camera for holiday so about 200 photos maybe more will be taken.
Thanks in advance for any help :)
The 8GB and 16GB holds way more than that. You'll probably only need to buy two 2GB cards. But if you're just deciding between those two, the 8GB would do just fine.
Answer by Matt H on 08 Jan 2010 08:26:02Matt H is right - two 2GB cards would be alright if you are only taking 200 photos. If your first 2GB card were to run out of memory, you'd have a second one that is ready to go.
Answer by T. Le on 08 Jan 2010 08:29:37Don't buy either. Of course, we can't stop you buying what you want but:
8 or 16GB and you'll put thousands of images onto the card. You'll leave them on the card and not bother transferring them to a computer and, eventually, you'll lose the camera, the card will go silly or some other disaster will befall it. You will lose (probably) thousands of photos.
You might say that you'll regularly back them up etc - so what's the point in spending good money on tons or storage spacec if you're going to copy the images off the camera regularly?
Buy two or three 2GB cards (almost free nowadays) and a pretty little wallet to keep them in. Lose one and you only lose the photos on that card. You'll struggle to fill a single 2GB card even on holiday. You may want a 4GB card just to be sure.
8's and 16's are really for two sets of people:
Video buffs and people who think bigger is better - like more pixels means better images etc...
if you can't get a 4g or 2 2g cards, go with the 8g. just remember to not fill it up if its not necessary and to delete what you already downloaded.
i have a 8g and it says it can hold 9999 pictures, but depends on the setting. Now I know I'm not going to fill it up. On a good setting, it says about 3800 pictures.
The only time I can fill even an 8gb card is in the DSLR shooting sports in RAW mode with the shutter set to continuous. That way a 45min (to half time) will fill an 8gb card, and by the end of the second half I'll have filled a second card and swapped batteries!
Seriously, whatever you get, buy two of them, and go for the best value you can get, commonly that means around 8gb at the moment which will be more than enough for your purposes.
At the best resolution and highest quality setting you will get 180 photos on a 1G card according to Fuji website (link below). I never use anything but 1G cards. I always carry several. I get over 300 7mp photos on a 1G card. Before you buy consider this.
An 8G card is going to cost more. If you can get 180 photos on a 1G card you will get 1440 photos on an 8G card. Are you going to shoot 1440 photos before you upload to your computer? Are you going to keep the photos on the card permanently for archival storage? If you will not shoot 1440 photos before uploading and you will not use the card for permanent archival storage why pay extra for storage capacity you don't need?
Lets say you do shoot 1440 photos on your 8G card. If that card gets corrupted, damaged or lost you lose all 1440 photos. If you had used 8 - 1G cards and 1 card gets corrupted, damaged or lost you lose only 180 photos but you retain 1260 photos.
Im not a fan of high capacity memory cards for photos.
If you are taking photos using the highest size and quality JPEG mode, the 8gb card can hold 1,510 photos. Double that for 16gb, obviously. For the amount for other file types, visit the link in my source and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Answer by Matt on 08 Jan 2010 08:53:25Why anyone would want to put so many image on one card is beyond me. Memory cards are for temporary storage of images.
The workflow usually includes copying all of the images to your camera to your computer as soon as you finish shooting for the day. After they are all safely on the computer, you are to format the card, using the cameras format feature so it is ready for the next shoot.
If you do that, you will only need a couple of smaller cards like 2 gb's. One 2 gb card can hold up to 230 images at the camera set to its highest resolution, so 2 - 2gb cards will hold more than enough for your purposes. Smaller cards take much less time do copy to your computer as well.
The problem with such large cards is that the user tends to get lazy and don't copy the images from the memory card and run the risk of losing all their images if the card gets corrupted for some reason.
A 16 gb card is rather expensive and that means it could theoretically hold over 1600 images and I can see no reason to temporarily store that many images on one card
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