I'm planning a trip in a few weeks and I wanted to get a new memory card for my Canon S90 pocket camera. A 16 GB SD card was almost the same price as the lower capacity ones so I splurged.
Plugged it into the camera and I can now take 6000 large capacity JPEGS. That is the equivalent of 250 rolls of color print film back in the day. I can go on a 30 day trip and take 200 photos a day and not run out of photo capacity. It boggles my mind that 15 years ago I would have hauled camera, flash, 4 lenses and maybe 10 rolls of film - and now I take something the size of a deck of cards. How things have changed. I suppose many people just use their cell phone these days, although I still like a real camera.