What type of memory card does it use?

Do you know what the max capacity sd card the a650 will take?
I am looking at getting an 8 gig and not sure if it will work or not.

Thanks

Yes, it's HC compatible, so that means it'll go as high as you can afford (the current largest is 32GB). But allow me to make an pitch for using several cards, rather than one large one. Reason being, insurance. Any memory card can fail or become corrupted. And when you're on vacation the last thing you want is to lose the opportunity to take pictures until you can recover that media card with a software utility. If your card goes bad, swapping another one for it at that moment is of advantage so you can keep taking pics. Then, later when you're in front of your PC, you can use a utility like "F-Recovery" to get back your pictures and recover your card.

No need to lose the moment because you relied on one card one when several can solve that problem. At the very least, you want to get more than one of whatever size you settle on.

One last thing. Cards have different speeds. The faster a card is, the quicker it'll save the photo and cycle to be ready for another shot. In the end, your camera is only going to be as fast as it's slowest link in the chain. So check for speed when you purchase a card. If you're going to pay more for your cards, why not go with faster cards, rather than larger ones.

Thanks for the info, I just got the a650, after i fell in the lake with my a640.
We did some video of my brother in-laws game, and we loved the quality.
I am the paprazzi of the family.
So I have a 4g, 2g, and 3 1g cards already.
We were looking at the bigger cards more for video versus pictures.
I really like my sandisk ultra II card, because I can flip it and it becomes usb compatibly.
Unfortunately, they do not make them anymore, and they only had them in 1g size.

Thanks again for the info.

Ramona