Art, for a different perspective, I have a CoolPix 800 (2.1MP), I always take shots on the 'fine' setting (highest other than uncompressed TIFF), and don't necessarily agree with you on memory amounts (your needs sound 'high' to me, if it's a casual user we're talking about).
Most of the time my 48 mb card is more than enough, but I usually carry one or more of my other cards (24, 16x2, 8) as backups. On vacations I take them all (112 mb total), and they have done the job just fine, though I'd agree they wouldn't be enough for a longer trip (say 2 weeks).
However, given how fast prices are coming down, I'd sure 'average down' and 'diversify' by buying additional capacity bit by bit instead of risking it all on one bigger card.
jm2cw
Andre
PS: Part of the reason I believe in 'card diversification' is that one of my first CF cards (a 16 meg purchased in 2000) was a defective SanDisk card - though I haven't had any problems with any others since (including several SanDisk brand ones). |
