O.T. Camera Card

60 acre hillside · Jan 1, 2011

I bought a new memory card for my camera to replace one that is about 10 years old. The old one in 128 MB SD and the new one is SDHC I suppose the HC is fully interchangable and means high capacity. The old one being 128MB and the new one is 4GB. Can I assume that GB is a multiplier of 1024 and the new one if interchangable would have about 34 times as much capacity? Thanks

MarkWV · Jan 1, 2011

lets you take lotsa pictures without having to delete, I got a 8MP camera, 4 GB card and I can do around 1000 pics easy

Lamar Fudd · Jan 1, 2011

If your camera is much over two years old, it's probably not compatible. Its just benn the last couple of years that cameras can use both cards. The HC does stand for high capacity. They were developed more for videos but work fine for taking pictures-if your camera can "read" it.

TomH in PA · Jan 1, 2011

You did the math right, 32x the capacity. A 4GB card has a reasonable chance of working in an older camera, they probably warned you not to get one any bigger though.

Still a good idea to download the pictures to your computer and burn them onto a CD or DVD occasionally. And keep a copy of the CD out of your house if possible so you have an "off-site" backup.

JDemaris · Jan 1, 2011

There are three generations of SD cards and they are not backards compatible. All the same physical size. A camera made for SD cards only cannot use a SD/HC or SD/XC.

SD card maxes at 2 GB
SD/HC card maxes at 32 GB
SD/XC car maxes a 2 TB (Terabytes)

1 TB equals 1,024 GBs.
1 GB equals 1,024 MBs

I've got two cameras here that are barely two years old and they are SD only. Check your camera specs.

UncleTom · Jan 1, 2011

I just got a Cannon power shot for Christmas and it is compatible with all 3 of the sd,sdhc, and sdxc cards. Learned something from this post so i checked my instruction book, that came with the camera.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jan 1, 2011

I'm not sure that it matters much but there are different speed classes of the cards too. If I understand correctly the speed is about data transfer rate.

From Wikipedia:
These are the ratings of some currently available cards:

* Class 0 cards do not specify performance, which includes all legacy cards prior to class specifications.
* Class 2, 2 MB/s, slowest for SDHC cards.
* Class 4, 4 MB/s.
* Class 6, 6 MB/s.
* Class 10, 10 MB/s.

sws55 · Jan 1, 2011

That's a routine question for most camera companies. Check your camera manufacturer's website for what memory cards they recommend for your specific camera model.

If that doesn't answer your question, email the question to the manufacturer's customer service site. They should be able to tell you the type and maximum capacity that they sucessfully tested in your model camera. Kodak answered my questions within a few days.

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