Memory cards?

[Ben]

Went to buy a 4gb SD card for my camera, got very confused, some are £5 and some £50, what on earth is the difference to make such a massive price jump, all were Sandisk too!

[mowgli]

beats me, probably someone trying to make a big profit.....

[Ben]

They were in the same shop on the next hanger to each other!

[Prey]

Im guessing it would be speed difference? As with PC memory SD cards have a certain read/write speed. Im not sure how much difference it actually makes real world im afraid.

[Ben]

thanks, that makes sense, never thought about that but as you said, how much difference can it make, not like a normal memory card is uber slow.

[wisewood]

Can make quite a big difference sometimes, cheap ones can be considerably slower, but if you've never used a quicker one i suppose you wouldnt know what you were missing.

Price difference could relate to the life of the card too perhaps, ie how many write/delete cycles it can handle.

[craig green]

Aye, potential speed between pics & general life span of the product.

I bought a Toshiba 2gb one last week from someone that brought a bunch back from Hong kong. £10.

[Ben]

I will buy the expensive one then lol

[ade]

look at the X speed - the higher the fastr - obviously - and the more costly...

I find ebay a fun place to get sd cards!

[Ben]

Yeah if i was at home i would buy off ebay, but being here postage is a pain and ive got the i want it now syndrome so **** the expense lol

[Welsh Dan]

7dayshop do some 8gig class 6 (6MB/s write) SDHC cards for about £18.

If you're shooting JPEG you'll not notice much difference. A reasonably quick card is a must for RAW though.

[Ben]

thanks will have a nose about.