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CompactFlash, SmartMedia. MultiMedia, SecureDigital. Sony Memory Sticks.
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There
are a few cheap cameras that have no way to add extra camera
memory to the amount they are sold with, but most come with
some kind of camera memory card to provide storage. Usually
they come with a small capacity card - such as 8 or 16Mb, and
you will often need to add the cost of a larger card to your
purchase. It makes sense to have a card that will allow you
to take at least 50 pictures, probably more. Fortunately camera
memory cards are now relatively cheap.
In the early days of digital cameras, two types of camera memory established
themselves as standards - Compact Flash (CF) and Smart Media - although there
were also a few cameras that used either floppy disks or proprietary memory cards.
CF cards remain one of the most widely used formats, although the range of capacities
has expanded dramatically. Many professionals are now shooting onto 512Mb or
1 GB CF cards, and capacities up to 4Gb camera memory are now beginning to appear.
New types of camera memory appear frequently, now including MultiMedia, Memory
Stick, and Secure Digital.
If you have more than one digital camera, or if you change cameras, it can be
very annoying and expensive if they use different types of camera memory. The
nearest to a standard is CF, which can currently be used in all professional
cameras. Even here you may find some problems.
The Micro drives were the first high capacity camera memory, available in 340MB
and 1 GB (and shortly in larger capacities.) They are not solid-state devices,
but miniaturized hard disk drives, with a rapidly spinning disk.
Always check that any camera memory you buy is the correct type for the camera.
Some cameras cannot make use of the very large cards now available. Only the
latest professional cameras can make use of more than 2GB camera memory now available
on some cards, earlier models had a filing system unable to cope.
CF, Smart Media, Secure Digital and Memory Stick are currently the most popular
camera memory types. Some card types, particularly CF cards, are also available
with different memory speeds. Usually a faster camera memory will result in your
pictures being saved more rapidly, but this is not always the case.
CF cards are used in most Canon, Nikon, Minolta, HP and Casio cameras. Older
Olympus and Fuji cameras used SmartMedia. Secure Digital (SD) was designed as
a replacement for the older MultiMedia Cards, (MMC) and some SD devices also
take MMC. SD is used in many recent Kodak cameras and some others. Memory Stick
is used mainly in Sony devices.
Simple -
TigerDirect - Digital
Camera Memory
Access your pictures quickly and easily. Remove your Compact Flash card from
the camera and insert directly into the Adapter and insert in your Notebook's
PCMCIA reader and now you can drag and drop files as usual. Store, display, or
enhance pictures on your PC.
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