Over 2GB?

Does the A540 support cards over 2GB? (4GB)

No. It won't.

ahh that sucks...

I got the camera for the main purpose of pictures, but found out the 640x480x30fps video function actually takes better video than an old video camera I have... The only issue is that it doesn't use any compression and reaches the 1GB file limit in just about 9 minutes on highest settings.

I wish Canon would release user upgradeable firmware that would add compression settings.

Bigger cards won't help the 9 min. limit. And that's only for a single clip; no reason not to make more than one clip, and generally videos will look better if they aren't long, continuous runs but have some zooms, cutaways, and different angles in them.

Jon wrote in post #2664187
Bigger cards won't help the 9 min. limit. And that's only for a single clip; no reason not to make more than one clip, and generally videos will look better if they aren't long, continuous runs but have some zooms, cutaways, and different angles in them.

Yes I know that, hence why I said "Filesize limit"...

With 2GB card its only about 18 minutes total in 2 parts.... if it accepted a 4GB card it could do over a half hour in 4 segments.

bsr5 wrote in post #2663863
...it doesn't use any compression ...

On a minor technical note it uses M-JPEG compression which is very low compression compared to MPEG2, DivX, xVid or WMV. The low compression give high quality without excessive processing power in the camera. Uncompressed video would use up over 1.6GB per minute and that is without audio.