i have a 7.1 megapixel canon powershot sd1000. how much video/pictures does a 2gb memory card hold?

im going to a wrestling show live soon and want to record/take pictures

2GB should be a large enough capacity. The SD1000 will allow 600 high quality (Superfine/Large) images per 2GB. The camera’s default is (Fine/Large), so if you want the best image quality your camera offers, you will need to change it.
High quality movies of 640×480 @ 30fps (which is the camera’s default setting), eat up card space rapidly. Each 1GB will allow 8 minutes of recording.

Btw, your Advanced User Guide (pages 139-140) shows you how many images or how much recording of movies you can do per 512MB card…so just multiply the figures in the chart by 4.

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