Caveman uttered the following: > You must be quite selective with your shots. I've got a 512 MB card, I > shoot jpeg, and I do fill it up during some good days. However I didn't > yet buy a second one since the battery dies at about the same time the > card gets full. Maybe I should get a 1 GB card and a spare battery. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > SD cards come in larger sizes! Mine are 128 MB and 256 MB, and I know 512 is > > also available although so far I've never bothered to buy one (nor have I > > bought, so far, a CF larger than 256 MB.) >
For the Optio 550, I have two 128MB cards, two 256MB cards and one spare battery. This is sufficient most of the time. I did run into a little trouble on a trip this summer when one of the 256 cards inexplicably died. So I was a bit restricted when I only had 512MB total capacity instead of 768MB. As a result of that experience, I'd rather have two medium-sized cards than one large card (an eggs-in-basket sort of idea). But if I had to replace either of those 128MB cards, I'd buy a 256MB instead. If I charge both batteries fully before a day's shooting, the batteries will outlast the cards. This is probably because I don't use the LCD while I'm shooting; my son and my husband do use the LCD, and the battery life is much shorter for them. For the *istD, I have four 256MB cards and I thought I had two sets of spare batteries, but I can't find one foursome; someone else in my family must have appropriated them. I use NiMH AAs, and have yet to "kill" the batteries if they were fully charged at the beginning of the day. ERN
