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Is your picture different based on your memory card? Does one take batter pics than another? Size that's best?
I just purchased a Canon PowerShot S5 IS and it came with a small memory card. Of course I want one that holds more pics but, I just would like to know, when I was purchasing the camera the salesman was saying something about the speed of the memory card producing better pictures. Is there really such a thing? In my research I see there are various prices but, other than the differences in the memory size, what is causing the differences in the price? Does the most expensive card really produce the best pictures?
The quality of the photos won't change if you change memory cards.
Memory cards will affect only two things: 1) how fast the camera can clear its shot to shot buffer--if the camera is capable of writing to the faster cards (most point and shoots do not write very fast, so this is a moot point for most point and shoots, except for the high-end ones) and 2) whether or not, over time, the card will become corrupted. In the case of 2), a higher quality card may be better equipped to deal with a lot of read/write/erase cycles, that a cheaper card is not. Effectively, a really cheap card might wear out faster than a high-quality, expensive card.
But if you stick to the high-end, quality manufacturers--Sandisk, Ridata, Kingston, Lexar, Transcend--you won't have issues between the more expensive versions and the cheaper versions, other than the cheaper ones either being slower or smaller.
One other thing to look out for: the high-end cards are also the most counterfeited cards.
But the bottom line: the digital encoding on a fast memory card is identical to the encoding on a slow memory card--there's no quality issues involved!
Memory Cards - Understanding The Various Formats
Now that you have finally upgraded from a traditional 35mm camera to a new digital camera, you will come to realize that the digital camera no longer needs the traditional film to store images, but instead uses a modern digital storage medium called the memory card to save all the precious pictures.
To put it in simplest terms, a memory card is an electronic data storage device. It is also referred to as a flash memory card. Apart from digital cameras, you will find the memory card in use in many types of electronic equipment such as the handheld and laptop computers, cell phones, music players and video game consoles.
Generally, you will find the memory cards in solid state, but sometimes they are also available in a non-solid state, though these types of memory cards do not use flash memory. These are based on cutting age technologies and used mostly by the gamers and the technical professionals and are often referred to as "mem-cards" by these techies.
There are different types and qualities of memory cards using various types of flash memory format. Many of the leading electronic companies in the world offer a wide range of models packed with many state of the art features, including high re-recordability, power-free storage, compact size and many more.
It was during the early 1990's that memory cards were introduced to the market for the first time, and it soon revolutionized the whole concept of data storage in the PCs, cell phones and other industrial applications. The late 1990's and early 2000 witnessed the competition amongst electronic giants heat up as they battled to introduce more and more sophisticated and compact memory card formats to the market, such as xD Picture Card and Memory Stick, thus meeting the growing need for smaller and smaller memory cards for compact electronics such as PDAs, cell phones and digital cameras etc.
The result is that today the market is flooded with a new generation of memory cards in a variety of formats ranging from SmartMedia and CompactFlash to the more sophisticated Memory Stick variants and xDs. In recent years the more popular memory card for digital cameras is the SD/MMC but with stiff competition coming from the Memory Stick formats such as xD and CompactFlash.
Memory cards are manufactured by many of the world's leading electronic companies and you can get the device in the electronic and computer section of virtually any computer or electronics store. The cards come with different speed limit and varying memory sizes, and these differences account for the wide fluctuation in their price range.
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