4 GB compact flash card-

[smiles 0]

Kingston- $500. USD

(dream on.........put on Xmas list?????)

---this is not a memory card for a casual user, but that's to be expected at the high end. With a lifetime warranty, fast read/write speeds, and the respected Kingston brand-name, this is a serious card for serious users. It boasts the size of all but the biggest microdrives on the market, and the power-friendly nature of CompactFlash.

--- inserted into a Canon S400, a 4 megapixel camera set at maximum resolution and maximum image quality.................2036 photos.

-----if you're ripping at 64 kbps you can fit approximately 139 albums according to Windows Media Player's estimate that an average album will take up 28 MB of space.

----Speeds tests revealed that this card is a burner: 6552 KB/s for 1 MB reads, and 6040 KB/s for 1 MB writes. A ancient Canon 32 MB card scored 3136 KB/s for 1 MB reads and only 614 KB/s for 1 MB reads.


SMiles

[newshooter12 0]

look here --> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0409/04092805sandisk_ultraII.asp

[Deuce 1]

I have found that even my gig card is actually too big.

Reason?

If you want to burn it to portable media like a CD, a CD only holds about 700 megs. Ideally, for me, the card is just big enough to hold enough images to burn to one full CD.

Four gigs requires a portable hard drive.

[kelpdiver 2]

Or a DVD...then you could dump the video onto the same disk as well.

(Probably about 2 years away for making sense for customers.)