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$60 seems to be higher than you need to spend for a 1 Gb XD card.
People used to get 36 shots with one roll of 35 mm film. I think the far larger number of images possible with a digital camera is a great thing but you might need to decide how much storage capacity you want or need. at the highest resolution a 1 Gb card for the F20 should hold about 341 images. That's a lot.
On my existing Fuji I like to use the 3-shot-per-button-press mode to increase the chance that I'll get one good picture in low light situations (it's because of low light performance of my existing camera that I'm getting an F20.) Even if you used that mode you could still get over 50 different shots with a 512 Mb card - and you always have the possibility of deleting blurred or excess frames, so you'd have still more capacity.
But there may be times when the video mode could be useful/fun. If that seems probable then probably a 1 Gb or even 2 Gb memory card could be useful. I'd watch for sale prices, and you can anticipate that XD memory prices will trend downward.
This site recommends 4 256 Mb cards over a single 1 Gb card, but I'm not sure I agree with the reasoning. The cited problem was when the card was removed from the camera and placed in a card reader. I simply use the camera-to-computer USB cable so I never (hardly ever) have to remove the XD card, which I think would greatly reduce the probability of that kind of error. I'd be somewhat worried about dropping and damaging an XD card if I were changing it on a hiking path: the cards are small.
People used to get 36 shots with one roll of 35 mm film. I think the far larger number of images possible with a digital camera is a great thing but you might need to decide how much storage capacity you want or need. at the highest resolution a 1 Gb card for the F20 should hold about 341 images. That's a lot.
On my existing Fuji I like to use the 3-shot-per-button-press mode to increase the chance that I'll get one good picture in low light situations (it's because of low light performance of my existing camera that I'm getting an F20.) Even if you used that mode you could still get over 50 different shots with a 512 Mb card - and you always have the possibility of deleting blurred or excess frames, so you'd have still more capacity.
But there may be times when the video mode could be useful/fun. If that seems probable then probably a 1 Gb or even 2 Gb memory card could be useful. I'd watch for sale prices, and you can anticipate that XD memory prices will trend downward.
This site recommends 4 256 Mb cards over a single 1 Gb card, but I'm not sure I agree with the reasoning. The cited problem was when the card was removed from the camera and placed in a card reader. I simply use the camera-to-computer USB cable so I never (hardly ever) have to remove the XD card, which I think would greatly reduce the probability of that kind of error. I'd be somewhat worried about dropping and damaging an XD card if I were changing it on a hiking path: the cards are small.
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