With the range of capacities available, there are several ways of carrying storage. In fact, because the T1i’s battery is good for “only” about 500 shots, if you’re carrying a couple of high-capacity cards, you’ll probably run out of battery before you run out of storage. The camera creates folders on the card, and stores files in those folders, each with a different name.īecause cards are so small, and because they can pack huge capacities, it’s possible to shoot a tremendous number of images with just one or two cards. Your camera treats the card just the way your computer treats your hard drive. Consequently, it’s perfectly safe to take out a full card and replace it with another. So, after you turn the camera off, the images remain on the card, even if you remove it. As you’ve already learned, the T1i uses Secure Digital (SD) cards (or SDHC cards, a faster, higher-capacity version of SD).įlash memory cards are similar to the RAM that’s in your computer, but with one important difference: they don’t require power to remember what’s stored on them.
For that, a digital camera employs a memory card of some kind. With a digital camera, the image sensor does the capture, but it doesn’t have any capability to store an image. Film is an amazing invention because it’s a single material that can both capture an image and store it.
