Will this Compact Flash card work for me?

[PC Hobbyist]

I have a Canon Powershot S230 (digital ELPH) that uses CF memory cards.

I found a good deal on a 4 GB card, but it is a higher speed card and it says: "Designed for use in high end digital SLR cameras that support UDMA". The speed is: 266X (40MB/sec)

Can I use this on my Powershot camera? I know it won't work at the high speed, but that's ok - I just want to make sure that it is usable with my camera.

 

[The_Other_One]

The speed isn't what I'd worry about. I'd find out what the largest memory card that camera can use... You may be limited to 1GB, maybe 2GB... I could be wrong and a 4GB may work, but I have seen many cameras and other devices that wouldn't work with such large cards.

 

[brian]

ya. our old old one can only have 512.

 

[PC Hobbyist]

Oh yeah, I hadn't realized that. Thanks for pointing that out. I just searched around and found this, which says it will accept a max. of 2GB. It wasn't easy to find that info - I assume it is right. You would think that Canon would put that info on their product specification page.

Thanks again for the help.

 

[brian]

anyway we have a good camera (takes 2.5 meg picturs) and we have a 2 gb card, it can store like 500 or so picturs