What is a memory card, does my digital camera need one?
The purpose of this guide is to help new or less experienced digital camera users better understand digital memory and digital memory cards, to help improve their overall experience of using a digital camera. This guide has been updated by Linda’s Camera World (lindas_camera_world on ebay), as of Summer 2007. As traditional 35mm images physically used space on a roll of film, digital images take up electronic space on a digital camera. The space used is a called a bit or byte and a typical digital image today can take up to 1 million bites (1MB or 1 Megabyte) or more, per digital photo. Additionally, recording digital video clips is easy with most point and shoot digital camera models, but recording video uses megabytes of memory at even higher rates than images. The amount of memory a digital camera can hold, or be expanded to hold through the use of memory cards is extremely important to digital camera users of all skill levels. What is Internal Memory? The average digital camera sol
