what CF card for a canon powershot s60

[phantom779]

ok just got my hands on my first digital camera, the canon powershot
S60.
Very nice impressed so far, paid £319 p.a.p all in from
www.cameras2u.com
Anyway i'm looking for a larger CF card like 1gig if possible, like i
said this is the very first digi cam and first time using CF cards so
need some help.
Can anybody point me to a nice big 1gig card that can be used in the
powershot S60.
I've also heard there is 2 types of CF cards type I and type II
can anybody tell me if the 2 types of cards will work in the powershot
S60
I've been looking at the Lexar 1GB 80x Professional Compact flash Card
from ebuyer
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&pro duct_uid=66656
as to be a uk site if i'm ordering anything
any feed back is welcome

[Sketcher]

Congrats! Nice little camera (belittling not intended).

Canon's specs state: Storage Media CompactFlash (CF) Card Type I or Type II for the s60

Your last statement sounds like you have a UK requirement for purchase.

If not check out: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2548605

Noted from: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=39919&highlight=

[rschaff]

I have the s60 and am using a 512 type II.. works great.

[Jon]

Type 2 cards are a little thicker (5 mm vs. 3.3) than Type 1 cards. Otherwise they'll work the same, but higher capacity cards show up first in Type 2, then as technology gets better, as Type 1.

With the S60, a 80X (which is compared to X1 CD-ROM speeds) card is probably overkill. You'd see the most benefit with that kind of speed in transferring files to your computer over a USB 2.0 card reader. A 1 GB card should give you between 400-500 shots. You might want to look at the relative cost of 1 GB and 512 MB cards - it might be cheaper, and will give you a degree of redundancy, to get two smaller cards than one big one. They do fail - not often, but too often if you know what I mean.

SanDisk also makes very good cards, which get along well with Canon cameras.

[Andy_T]

Phantom,

you might also like to check out the DPReview review of your camera: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons60/

These reviews are normally quite thorough and might give you additional information on the camera.

On the question of CF size ... there's some things to bear in mind.

- It might be good to have 2 smaller cards instead of one bigger
Reasons being smaller risk (if one card goes bad, you lose only half of the images, not all) and flexibility (you can download one card to your PC or portable storage device and continue to shoot with the other).

- However, I don't think that the 1 GB card would be 'too big' for the S60.
I've been using a 1GB IBM mocrodrive on my 4 MP G2 now for 2 years. Recently I got a second similar card. I have never exceeded the limit of one card, but I have been close to it several times (especially when on holiday).

I use RAW mode only, because I feel it gives me the best possible quality and I do not mind the extra work. (Read up on this, it's an interesting discussion whether to use RAW or JPG :shock: ). In RAW, I get about 350 4 MP pictures on the 1GB card which is exactly sufficient for one day of shooting on a holiday trip. This is also about the amount of pictures I get out of the BP511 battery.

Now, if you at one point or other in your photographic 'career' decide to go tthe same way, the S60 has 5 MP and gets about 200 RAW filed on a 1 GB CF card. If you use a 512 MB card, you'll get only 100 shots on the card. To me, this would be too few.

Especially as I have to admit that I lost about 100 photographs 8some of them valuable memories) once because I mixed up my 2 CF cards and formatted the wrong one, whose images had not yet been transferred to my PC. :cry: This is a risk you always face if you are not a very organized person.

Bottom line ... I'd get a 1 GB card and maybe another one to follow. If you ever upgrade to a 300D or 20D DSLR, I also think that 1 GB would be the lower limit if you decide to use RAW.

Best regards,
Andy