which card to get?

for my SX10IS, right now I'm using a kingston 2GB that was in my S2IS before. it doesnt even say what speed it is

could the new camera benefit from a faster card?

Get a class 4 or faster card-I suggest looking at Sandisk.

whats the max speed the camera can write to the card?

For an SX10 IS it doesn't really matter what card you get...the camera isn't fast enough to take advantage of a fast card anyway. Continuous shooting maxes out at something like 1 frame/sec on the SX10, so any card is pretty much faster than the camera.

A fast card would be quite useful if you had something like a 1D Mark III that shoots 10 frames/sec...but on a slower camera there is no difference.

996gt2 wrote in post #9716135
For an SX10 IS it doesn't really matter what card you get...the camera isn't fast enough to take advantage of a fast card anyway. Continuous shooting maxes out at something like 1 frame/sec on the SX10, so any card is pretty much faster than the camera.

A fast card would be quite useful if you had something like a 1D Mark III that shoots 10 frames/sec...but on a slower camera there is no difference.

Yup....totally right. I see that 99gt has a 40D....so do I. Even that camera which can shoot at over 6 frames per second does not benefit from a faster card (may benefit in the sense that it could upload picture files from a reader to a computer faster..but won't make a difference in the camera itself - and transfering Jpeg files is pretty fast...and even if it took twice as long with a slower card than a faster card... 100 full size images from you SX would still upload in less than 5 minutes = not a very long time. But the difference in the cost of faster cards can be quite significant .

I also own an SX10 IS...I use a good size (8GB) standard speed Sandisk SD card..I used to have a bunch of smaller cards and sold them with another camera.. I never fill it up before getting a chance to upload the pictures I want to save, so a 4GB card (or two) would be adequate for me.

Kingston is fine. Sandisk and Lexar are fine. I haven't heard any compliants about the reliabiity of any brand name SD (or CF) card. But "they say" (whoever "they" is)...that Sandisk and Lexar are the better cards. I have used and never had a problem with Kingston or Transcend or the Lexar and Sandisk cards I have now.....(those are all I can remember having owned and used).

Peace,
D.

makes sense. so the lower fps cameras may not benefit. but transferring from the card to computer would be faster