Best memory card for a Canon 450D?

[mikestrat]

As per title? Brand, type, size and cheapest supplier?

[Nero601]

Google ???

[mikestrat]

Done that loads of options. Usually someone here can just say - "best is xxx from yyy" etc

[IanMorewood]

sandisk my choice, 7dayshop normally have decent prices.

[Gemm]

IanMorewood said:

sandisk my choice, 7dayshop normally have decent prices.

Yes, also Play.com.

And beware of the cheap ones on ebay; they are usually fakes.

Edited by Gemm on Saturday 20th November 20:56

[XG332]

Sandisk SD Big as possible Fast as possible.

[LongQ]

IanMorewood said:

sandisk my choice, 7dayshop normally have decent prices.

Yep. Though limited choice just now.

To some extent it depends on how you are going to use the camera. If you are taking a few shot now and then the size of the memoriy ad the speed that the card can be written to will probably not matter too much. 2 or 4Gb and almost any spec will do.

If you are going to take a lot of shots on a day out and may need to run flat out at 3.5 frames per second for as long as possible then larger (or more cards) and faster (up to a point) will be useful.

There's a Transcend brand card doing the 'special deal' rounds at the moment which is class 10 (i.e the highest defned spec for SDHC cards at this time but not necessarily the fastest card around - some of the big players - Sandisk, Lexar, others - have cards that far exceed the Class 10 standard). Anyway, the Transcend version is likely 'fast enough' and the 16Gb version can be had for under £18. I think the 8Gb version is under £10.

7dayshop, Play.com, MyMemory and maybe someone else (can't recall at the moment) have been pushing it. I have one (16Gb) that I have been using in the second slot of my camera for instant jpg files to backup the main RAW captures and it seems to be fine. It's a lot of card for the money.