Hey all of you in cyberspace, I have a question on which brand and size of SD card i should buy for my Canon SD300. I purchased a Kingston 512MB Model SD/512. I read that someone had problems with it and that a faster card was needed to get the full effect of the video mode, which i hear is outstanding. I want to know if I am getting the best out of my camera with this card. Help me out please. Thomas

Go and have a look at this site http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/sd300.html A review of your camera here!

how does that help me with my question on the kingston card that i bought? will someone please answer my question? Thomas

Ok, it goes something like this: A SD card, no matter what brand or size, can be one of 2 things a) a "normal" speed card, about 3 to 5mb/s read/write speed. b) a "high speed" card over 66x or about 10 to 16mb/s read/write speeds. A high speed SD card is a must to get good frame rate/quality video when using a digicam. The write speed limits the camera's ability to take good video and/or continuous high speed pictures (3-4 shots a second). I, for example, am limited with this feature to about 12-16 continuous shots (4 shots second) because the camera's buffer gets full and the card cannot write fast enough to catch up and has to pause for about 3-4 seconds every dozen shots or so; this however does not affect my video feature because my camera only offers low-res video anyway (QVGA) and the video is only limited in time by the card's capacity, but believe me when I say that it doesn't matter cause I DIDN'T buy a lumix fz-20 to shoot video with. So I don't know about the cannon but as I understand it to shoot smooth high-res video (VGA or higher) on a digicam you need a high speed card; what, is you camera pausing or "blacking out"? Peace.

...and tommy, don't be a MORON, Ray was just trying to help. Peace.

If you had bothered to read the camera review it gives info regarding the best card to use etc!! Advice on this site IS worth following up properly.