Digital Camera Memory.

[Zombie]

I am looking for a memory stick for canon s230. I was wondering if there is any specific kind of memory that works better than the other with this camera. I know i need CF card but other than that not much since I have not recieved the camera yet. Dell has kingston 256meg CF card really cheap $48 - 20 rebate but Sandisk is little more than that around $44(no rebate). Any opinions on either one of those brands or any other brands for that matter.

thanks.

 

[isekii]

kingstons are fine

 

[dpm]

Occasionally you used to hear about incompatibility between certain camera models and CF cards, but I've not heard any for a while, and not for Sandisk/ Kingston. Both are pretty decent brands. Not the best, but pretty good - either should be good buys.

The biggest variation in CF brands is access speed - 2X, 4X up to 10X or 12X I believe.
However, I believe that you can't actually tell the difference between these cards if you are just using it in your camera, but you can if you are using a CF reader (also depends on the reader).

Check out DPReview for more.

FYI I'm using a Canon S200 with a 256mb CF card from Crucial

 

[RossMAN]

Kingston makes great CF media, I would go with them.

 

[grillmasterP]

I have had very good results with Viking brand compact flash in my Canon s330 - check out amazon's pricing/rebates as well
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[SCSIfreek]

I have the S230 with 128MB PNY CF's worked out quite well. Viking, Kingston and Crucial are great CF memory manufactures as well.

Although after couple months of usage, I find myself prefer going with the more vivid pictures taken from my Sony F505V.



--Scsi