Anybody know anything about Digital Cameras

[69CamaroRacer]

I just bought the Cannon S1 3.2 digital and I want to buy a larger mem card. It comes with a 32 meg compact flash card but I see that there are also the Compact flash II micro drives. Does anybody here know the difference and if I can use the microdrive in the camera. I am looking for somthing in the 1 gig or larger range.

[dennis68]

1 gig or larger??? What are you taking pics of? My S5100 will hold about 900 pics on a 512card at 1600X1240.

I would stick with the CF card, a lot of memory that will physically fit will have read or save errors on different devices. A 1 gig CF card is easy to find and under 100.00 all day.

[Overkill]

You should be able to look up the specs on Cannon's site to see what types are supported with it. They will list Type I Compact Flash, Type II Compact Flash, and Micro-drive specifically. In my camera I ended up buying a Creative Labs MuVo2 and ripped the micro-drive out of it to put in my Minolta DiMage A2. It's a 4GB micro-drive that ended up costing $200 in the MP3 player as opposed to buying the drive directly for over $400. I can now do as Dennis does and fit about 800+ pictures at 3264x2448 pixels.

Compact Flash will be able to write out of the buffer quicker than a micro-drive will and will also allow your battery to last longer because it won't have to spin up the hard drive to read/write the pictures. Something to keep in mind depending upon what you are going to use it for.

[dennis68]

I can now do as Dennis does and fit about 800+ pictures at 3264x2448 pixels. Show off!! :icon_razz