Originally Posted by sancheeez:
“For as start, I assume you mean £50 and £40 per GB, not MB.”
Oops, yep..
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“And .... I dunno where you do your shopping, but £50 for a 1gb SD card ?!?!? You must be kidding .... tons of them available for £15 and under.”
Check prices for the bigger cards. 1GB are cheap, 2/4/8GB are those sorts of prices. With the pixel count going up on cameras, big cards are handy & 1GB cards just don't hold that much.
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“From what I can see, CF is a quid or three more expensive, but there isn't much in it.”
Depends what you want to do.. If its an 8mp+ camera, CF's cheaper if you want to take lots of pictures without carrying around lots of cards or swapping out to a disk, and they're faster than the other cards.. Also cheaper as they're more open standard & less licencing costs for the makers.
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“XD is about twice the price of SD, same for for DuoPro (for Sony devices).”
Yup.. not sure what the point of XD is, they're slower than SD, more expensive & pretty much limited to Fuji & Olympus. There's a handy comparison here-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_memory_cards
But a lot still comes down to what camera it's for.