Can anyone recommend a 8 GB SDHC card for SD 780 IS? I am not sure whether to a get a scandisk or some other 8 GB SDHC card. Can someone please recommend a 8 GB SDHC card for SD 780 IS?
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I had the same question so I spoke with a Canon rep today. He recommended SanDisk but noted that the sd780is only writes up to 18-19 MB/sec. So it's essentially a waste of money to purchase a card that writes any faster than 20 MB/sec. Check this one out: Sandisk 8GB EXTREME SDHC SD Card Class 6 (SDSDX3-8192 Bulk Package) However, faster cards are likely to write and read faster through a card reader or on your computer.
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Class 4 is good enough. I use a class 4, 8G sandisk SD. The result is very satisfied.
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i don't understand the20 mb/sec. http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdhc says class 2, 4, 6 only do 2, 4, and 6 mb/sec. the link to the sandisk card shows class 6 but does say 20mb
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It is rather confusing. On the link I provided, scroll down to the "Technical Details" part of the page. It reads "Minimum 20MB/ sec sequential read/write speeds." Best of luck!
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I'm sure you got it figured out by now, but to anyone else, I use a CLASS 10 SDHC 8GB card with no problems. Key is that it is CLASS 10. And the video length can be changed in settings.
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I use a 32GB SDHC card, works great. The manual says that's the maximum capacity.
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To work with full HD, you probably need a card with speed of 17Mbps or more. Only Sandisk and Panasonic make such card (most Class 6 cards are too slow). The fastest San Disk are below 8GB (their Extreme III). Panasonic's 32GB (a shade faster than San Disk) is prohibitively expensive and sells for over $400. For HD the more important issue is speed (rather than storage). My suggestion is to buy in 8GB San Disk versions. Not only are they low cost but you will not be putting all eggs in one basket. The cards can get damaged or lost. Imagine 4 hours of video footage lost (which is the capacity of 32GB). Carrying stamp sized SDHC cards is not as painful as the miniDV. Just my 2 cents.
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Thanks, Kurts. I just ordered a 16 GB SDHC card and hope it will work when it arrives. Here are the maximum size for other types of memory cards to be used for Canon Powershot SD 780 IS according to www.usa.canon.com:SD: Secure Digital standard card supports capacities up to 2 GB.SDHC: Secure Digital High Capacity currently supports capacities up to 32 GB.MMC: MultiMedia Card supports capacities up to 1 GB.MMCPlus: MultiMediaCardPlus supports up to 4GB currently.HC MMCPlus: High Capacity MultiMediaCardPlus supports up to 8 GB capacities currently. Thanks, Kurts. I just ordered a 16 GB SDHC card and hope it will work when it arrives. Here are the maximum size for other types of memory cards to be used for Canon Powershot SD 780 IS according to www.usa.canon.com:SD: Secure Digital standard card supports capacities up to 2 GB.SDHC: Secure Digital High Capacity currently supports capacities up to 32 GB.MMC: MultiMedia Card supports capacities up to 1 GB.MMCPlus: MultiMediaCardPlus supports up to 4GB currently.HC MMCPlus: High Capacity MultiMediaCardPlus supports up to 8 GB... » Read More Thanks, Kurts. I just ordered a 16 GB SDHC card and hope it will work when it arrives. Here are the maximum size for other types of memory cards to be used for Canon Powershot SD 780 IS according to www.usa.canon.com:SD: Secure Digital standard card supports capacities up to 2 GB.SDHC: Secure Digital High Capacity currently supports capacities up to 32 GB.MMC: MultiMedia Card supports capacities up to 1 GB.MMCPlus: MultiMediaCardPlus supports up to 4GB currently.HC MMCPlus: High Capacity MultiMediaCardPlus supports up to 8 GB capacities currently. « Show Less
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I used up to an 8GB SDHC card in mine ALL the time and that will hold thousands and thousands of photos. I had THE best luck with this camera!! I bought like 3 in a row and since I am a photo taking addict LOL I used a lot of cards and kept getting ones with bigger memories which is how I KNOW it will hold 8 GB. Good luck and may God bless!
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We use a ScanDisk 16GB SD card. I would think that a ScanDisk 64GB card would work in it as well, but don't know for sure.
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I use a 16 GB SDHC card and it has worked perfectly. I cannot say enough good things about this camera, very happy with it!
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I'm getting a 16 GB sandisk extreme 3 sdhc card very soon. Like by this weekend and I will try it out.
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We bought an 8gb SDHC to go with this camera and it works great. Don't know if a bigger one would work any different or not. Hope this helps.
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The S3 was released nearly 3 years ago. The product description only mentions SD memory, not SDHC. Therefore your best bet is to use SD card with 2GB or lower.
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8 gb cards are avaialble. Google it. I have a 4 gb in mine and it works fine.
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Thanks for the info. I have decided on the 720 but am now confused on the memory card debate. I have read/heard conflicting opinions on sd vs sdhc. I'm thinking an sd 2gb should do everything I need without memory card error risks. Any thoughts as to upgrading beyond?
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I have SDHC, 4&8GB cards in them. I don't know what the difference is between the SDHC or the plain SD card is, that just happens to be what I ordered. The cards are so easy to get to that I just open it up, shut the cam off, take out one card and put another one in, turn the cam back on, shut the door and I'm done, about 30 seconds. Hope this helps you, take care, Ed.
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I don't know if any SD card is so much better than another, but any name brand SD HC card works. I happen to like SanDisk myself. I use an 8gb currently but I know up to 64gb are available. To give you an idea of time, at 1080P (HD) video setting, I use approx 100mb per minute of filming, so 1gb is ~ten minutes: 8gb card should get about 70+ minutes (as an 8 gb card formatted is around 7.3gb usable)
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SD or SDHC. 8Gb cards are inexpensive and should be perfectly adequate for the files that you will produce.
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I have one of the first builds off the line which is the 4gB model. As I want to use it as a portable recording machine I needed more space, so I picked up an 8 gB SDHC card fo $40 Can/US. I originally used a 2 gB thumb drive, but that fills up when recording hours of audio at 44 khz/16 bit. Also, I like the card as its like a mini-hardrive - it doesn't stick out of the side like a thumb drive. Not sure how much the 8gB model is compared to the 4Gb.. but with expandable memory so cheap..