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Would my SD card work for my camera?
Hi,
I don't know anything about cameras or their accessories. I recently bought a Canon Powershot SX720HS. It's a 20.3 mega pixel camera.
Does anyone know what would be a good SD card? I bought a SanDisk - Pixtor 32GB SDHC? Would this SD card work well with my camera?
Thank you!
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This is an SDHC card camera, so yes it will work fine. The card in any camera has no influence on image quality. Very cheap cards do not give pictures any less sharp or colour-correct etc than the most expensive. We pay more for reliability and quality control. SanDisk are a reputable maker of all kinds of storage media so no worries. If you shoot at 20mp, that's a pretty big image file at maximum quality/zero compression (Check your menus to see what size and quality you are shooting at. Massive, top quality shots may be overkill if you're doing stuff just for small web photos on one particular shoot, for instance). 32 gigs will give you a decent number of shots even at full quality and size. Whether that is enough or not depends on your style of photography. If you find you are always running out of space on a day 'on location' as it were, (with no easy way to download them and start again with the erased, blank card) then probably another 32 gig card is the better option. They're available up to 512 gig. But the price saving (1 big versus two or three smaller cards) isn't that much. Cards can become corrupted or get damaged. They're usually very reliable, but it can happen of course. Losing, say a whole 256 gigs of carefully acquired (maybe some are not repeatble, too!) pictures will really break your heart. I use mulitple 32 gig cards (mine are CF, but it makes no difference) for that reason. Happy shooting!
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