How Much Digital Camera Memory is Necessary?

[UNLTuba]

Right now, all I have in my (almost brand new) Olympus C-3000 Zoom is the 8MB of SmartMedia memory that came with it. I'm going to get more memory for it very soon. I'm wondering whether it's worth the $134.00 (USD) to get 128MB of Olympus SmartMedia memory, or if 64MB for $70.00 (USD) is enough. I guess what I'm really asking is (for those of you with digital cameras) - How much memory do you have in your camera, and how much of it do you actually use? Any other suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated... Thanks in advance!

-Eric

 

[bacillus]

can only speak for myself but I've found 64Mb adequate!
that gives me over 40 shots at max resolution.

 

[Jiggz]

I've got two sticks of 32Mb and a 64Mb. Depending on my purpose of taking the camera I usually take both sticks and always suffice for party needs. But on vacations with my laptop I just carry the 64Mb since I can always download the pics to my laptop at the end of the day. In your case, I'll say get the 64Mb if you have a laptop or get the 128 just in case you don't have the lappy.

 

[RichieZ]

I've got the same camera and 64MB is fine, check out Mr Flash smartmedia at newegg.com, its only like $33 and it works great. One thing is that you can only take panarama shots on olympus smartmedia. What quality do you usually shoot on? I always use HQ but I end up just resizing it on the computer cause its too big to share with friends like that. I only leavit it like that if I'm going to using something like ofoto and print them out.

 

[Shockwave]

Depends if your always near a computer. i have a Sony DSC S75 with a 64 meg stick, and I want to get at least another 128 or 2 more 64's...When I go home I dont have access to a computer, and family pics always use up all my ram and leaving me wanting more, so...
If you have a lappy, 64 is good!
If you gonna travel or be away from pc, get the 128 just in case