best places to purchase memory cards?

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Hi Guys

i finally got my first camera, i have chosen the panasonic lumix fz45 bridge cam

im thinking of getting a 64gb memory card

where can i purchase one for the lowest price?

thanks :D
 
I use either my memory or digital depot, both ace and guaranteed to be genuine!
 
I think you'd be better to get several smaller (4 or 8gb) cards.

You'll struggle to get anywhere near full on a 64gig one and, if it goes wrong, or you lose it, you end up with everything gone.
 
I just get mine from amazon :) I agree, go for smaller capacity cards. I use 4gb, when I transfer a full card to my laptop, I know I can also back up by burning the images on to a DVD and knowing they will fit on there nicely (4.6gb DVD?)
 
Amazon should be fine, I just received a Sandisk 32gb for £18

64gb is large, but I'd not go any lower than at least 16gb, unless you really want to be safe, then I'd get a couple of hundred 64 megabyte cards and use a new one for every single shot, so if it fails you'll only lose a single photo
 
Mystery57 said:
Also dont forget if you use a card reader, not all of them will infact read memory cards of that size.

Much safer to use several smaller cards just incase of problems.
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So which card reader won't read big cards ?

I've never heard that one before
 
thanks guys... just orders 3 16gb cards from amazon for about £19
 
There was a lot of old card readers that wouldn't read the new SDHC card when they came out but that's going back a few years now. I've not heard of any decent (i.e. not ebay £2.99 specials) card readers that wont read any size these days. The file architecture of a 4Gb, 8Gb and up to 64Gb should be the same.

You may end up with a problem if you get an SDXC card though, I've not had one or tried one and the file architecture may be different than the SDHC. If you get a new 64Gb card be sure to make sure you get the reader for it.

Also, like others have said, I think you'd be better of with a few smaller cards rather than 1 really big one. I shoot with multiple 16Gb compact flash cards and SDHC so that if 1 fails I don't lose everything.
 
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