Costco, if you have one near you, has great prices on their 1 gig
cards.
Lea
On Mar 16, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
At 10:31 AM -0500 3/16/06, Bob wrote:
Shyrell Melara wrote:
Based on everyone's comments a few weeks ago, I finally purchased
my first digital camera. I've been searching Canon's site for a
storage card and can't seem to find what I need. I have the 8mp,
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Kit. I'm still going through the
information trying to find a product number for their CF card but
haven't found it yet. Now to my questions, for those of you who
use the digital rebel xt, what storage card do you use and is it
ok to use the SanDisk card? If so, which one (what do I ask for)?
Nothing sacred about camera manufacturers' cards. In fact I'm
surprised they bother.
Sandisk is fine, get the lowest price you can. Memory prices are
always under downward pressure.
Go to pricegrabber.com, or buy.com for comparison prices.
Lexar is better I think, although Sandisk is very busy cornering
the market for the high end cards.
here's a site I found once with comparisons.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6451_7-6296352-2.html?tag=lnav
I bought a 1Gig card cheaply on eBay or something and it unreliably
mounts in the firewire card reader. It hasn't failed in the camera
yet at all however.
One other thing about your Rebel. It may not like cards bigger
than 2 Gig. Low end Canon digitals can't see more than 2Gigs. At
least that's true for my 10D.
Shoot RAW. Buy good batteries, not Canon's. Keep them charged up.
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