hln917 wrote:
I did change the settings down to 1024x768 and cleared up my SD card and it works! What happened to the good old days where the camera just snaps and shoots!:?
I think they went away with the nasty-smelling chemicals we had to use to turn the plastic strips into negatives, which we had to print in a dark room on paper with more smelly chemicals... Don't get me wrong, I loved old-style photography, but with today's DSLRs and Photoshop, and the ability to instantly see if a picture turned out, I really don't have the slightest urge to clean out the darkroom and try film again.
I never knew their are different classes. What is the difference?
SD cards are rated in "classes", which roughly corresponds to write speed - class 2 is 2 megabytes per second, class 4 is 4MB/sec, and so on. I'm not sure how much overhead there is - many "MB/sec" ratings are wildly optimistic because the data being exchanged is more than just the raw bits - but if you took a picture at 12MP, that could wind up two or three megabytes in JPG, which would take at least a second or two to write on a class 2 card.
Don't use the camera's memory card for long-term storage, as that will slow down the camera operation significantly. Download the images to the computer, then reformat the card in the camera as soon as you've verified that the copies on the computer hard drive are OK (and
never delete pictures on the card using the computer!). The more data you have on the card, and the longer you go between reformats, the harder the camera has to work to find a space to store each picture (or, it has to break the image file up into smaller chunks scattered around the card, which slows things down more).