CompactFlash Cards... Which one?
by Tom Hoey
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Introduction ...
CompactFlash Cards
File types are another feature to look for. JPEG, RAW, and Tiffs are the most common files to save your images. JPEG compress the image to take up less space. The draw back is loss of image quality.
CompactFlash cards are thicker in size than SmartMedia cards since all the logistics are built into the card and therefore the camera does not need any extra facilities to read it.
CompactFlash cards are available in capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB and even 12 GB. Although such cards become pricier as you increase capacity, they may be well worth the investment if you expect to shoot hundreds rather than dozens of photographs.
CompactFlash cards are rated for speed as well as capacity. When it comes to digital photography, speed is a critical issue. The faster the files are written, the less chance that you'll miss the next shot.
CompactFlash cards are capable of around 100,000 write cycles, this may not be much of an issue in a camera or mp3 player but may cause problems when data is frequently modified, such as when an operating system is running off the device.
Far smaller than CompactFlash cards (CF), Secure Digital memory cards have enabled camera manufacturers to further reduce the size of digicams.
Secure Digital (SD) cards are smaller than CompactFlash cards and are used in over half of current camera models.
Compatible with CompactFlash cards for up to one gigabyte of data storage
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For example, the Canon 5D Mark II records to CompactFlash cards using QuickTime MOV files with the H264 codec, the Panasonic GH1 uses SDHC cards and uses 17 M/bs AVCHD format, ...
He shoots with a Nikon D2X digital SLR on Lexar Professional CompactFlash cards. He has been using the Beta version of Adobe's Lightroom software to manage and manipulate his images.
All of the Olympus bodies accept CompactFlash cards, type I and II, and xD cards. CF cards have larger capacity for the price and are compatible with high-end Canon and Nikon bodies. We don't see any reason to recommend an xD card.
Lexar today announced 1000x (150MB/s) CompactFlash cards.
It meets VPG-20 and will come in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB sizes.
These aren't a big deal for my kind of still photography, but they are a big deal for people shooting video to CF cards.
Digital photography storage media includes CompactFlash cards and CDs. Megabyte A Megabyte (mb) is a measurement of data storage equal to 1,024 kilobytes (kb) or roughly 1,000,000 bytes. Often referred to as a meg or megs.
A type of memory that can hold data without needing power. It's used in SmartMedia and CompactFlash cards so photographs are safely stored when the camera is switched off.
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RAM (Random Access Memory) ...
Material that information is written to and stored on. Digital photography storage media includes CompactFlash cards and CDs.
Megabyte:
A measurement of data storage equal to 1024 kilobytes (KB).
They're really fast and these things are tiny! They're about half the size of the more popular CompactFlash cards used by Canon. CompactFlash is still more popular but XD is catching on...Olympus is now using XD memory cards as well.
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Eight 8GB SanDisk CompactFlash cards in a Think Tank Pixel Pocket Rocket wallet ...
SD card - short for Secure Digital card, a solid state memory card used in digital cameras, phones and other mobile devices. These memory cards are much smaller than the rival CompactFlash cards although they don't have such high rates of data ...
The most common types include two sizes of CompactFlash cards (the main difference is in the thickness); microdrives (tiny hard disks), Sony Memory Sticks, Sony Memory Stick Duo, Secure Digital (SD) cards, ...
Many involve fixed or removable flash memory. Digital camera manufacturers often develop their own proprietary flash memory devices, including SmartMedia cards, CompactFlash cards and Memory Sticks. Some other removable storage devices include: ...
of the current devices that are on the market were designed at a time when the largest card available was 8mb. Virtually all of those devices are incapable of using anything larger than the 8mb card. It is not interchangeable with CompactFlash cards.
 See also: CompactFlash, Flash, CompactFlash Card, Camera, Digital
  
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