Choosing a Memory Card for a Digital Camera

Video Transcript

"Memory cards are also an important tool for a photographer, especially those shooting digitally. As you see here, this camera uses what's called compact flash media; easily removed from the camera. This card is a one gigabyte which is equivalent to one thousand megabytes, and I like having this much size on my memory card, because it allows me to shoot hundreds of photographs at a time, all on the same card. The last thing you wan t to have happen is to be stuck out in the field and to run out of memory, and be forced to go through and edit your photos on the fly; deleting things. It's best to have as much memory as possible. Most cameras will come with a small memory card, maybe two hundred something megabytes, but I encourage you to get out there and get at least a gigabyte or more if you're serious about photographs, and you're going to be taking a lot of pictures at once. Again, every camera that's digital needs a memory card, and the more memory you have, the better served you'll be."