Camera Memory Cards

My camera is compatible with all the following memory cards:

SD, SDHC, SDXC, Memory Stick Pro Duo, microSDHC, microSD, xD picture cardcompact flash.

How do I pick? Are all memory card types the same? Or are here some I should steer clear of?

Thanks

What camera do you have? I’d be amazed if it can handle all the above!

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1025163.htm#pdpFullProductInformation

ah yes, looks like the argos website is incorrect, looks compatible with:

SD Memory Card / SDHC Memory Card / SDXC Memory Card / microSD Memory Card* / microSDHC Memory Card* / Memory Stick XC-HG Duo* / microSDXC Memory Card*

Go for Class 10 i.e. you will see 10 written on the card.

I use anything with a write speed above 60mb/s for high speed shooting so the camera’s buffer isn’t on the limit all the time. Regular shooting’s fine with less. Depends what you plan on doing with it really.

SD/SDHC then for best compatability I reckon. I usually get Transcend ones, they’re inexpensive and good quality. Also, I get ’em from trusted vendors- Which mag tried to do a test of memory cards bought online from no-names a while back to see what proportion were genuine, absolutely none of them were…

Don’t worry too much about class… You can generally get class 10 without too much price premium but compact cameras don’t have a great deal of need for it, I use a class 2 in my wee ixus and the only time it’s ever an issue is recording hd video as it buffers out after about a minute- card can’t quite keep up with the camera. In theory faster cards mean faster recovery time for photos- ie it can take the next shot faster. But in practice I can’t tell any difference between my 2s and 10s, I don’t think the file size is big enough to be an issue except on video.