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Flash Card Speed and Picture Size?

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My Nikon Coolpix 4500 arrived today. I'll have a lot of questions later. I'm going to England for 3 weeks and I won't have anywhere to download my pictures. A 16 Meg card came with it, I bought 2 additional 128 Meg cards on the salesman recomendation. I figured I'd get about 250 pictures out of all that memory, then it dawned on me that was only about 11 pictures a day. That wasn't enough so I bought a 256 meg card on EBAY today.:>) I know that the number of pictures depends on the size and quality of the pictures. My problem is that doesn't compute for me. I have 4 quality settings and 6 size settings. I'd be happy with snapshot size and quality pictures for now. It will be a while before I get a photo quality printer. Can someone give a clue before I run out and by more memory?
What speed card should I buy? The 128's were 12X and the 256 was 24X.
Thanks,
Darrell
 
Darrell,
Consider how fast you'll need to get the images wrote to the card. There may be instances where you'll need the speed.....
Get the fastest speed.
The drawback with consumer digitals is the size of buffer if it has one at all.
 
Thanks RM. I thought that would be the case. Whether I can tell the difference between a 4X and a 24X is another matter.
Any idea what picture quality and picture size I should start out with?
Thanks,
Darrell
 
RM will give you much better advice though. But, I do know that if you are even considering making prints, you will have to use the largest size and best quality setting your camera will take. If you are only going to keep your pictures in the digital domain you can take them at a smaller size and get way more photos on a card. I have a 256 for my dimage. Web size photos with a higher quality (Not the highest setting, but not the lowest either) I can get almost 900 shots on it. If I set it to RAW and the largest size, I can only get around 30. And it is only a 3.3 MP camera.
Your best bet, if at all possible, would be to try to get access to a computer with a CDRW while you are there and have your card reader and to burn your pics on to disc as often as you can and take the highest quality photos that your camera will take. If you want smaller pics later you can always resize and compress them, but you can not make them bigger and look good if you take them at the economy setting.
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