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CompactFlash Cards... Which one?
by Tom Hoey
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A Pocket Full of Compact Flash Cards
The price of compact flash cards continues to drop, just as their capacity and speed continue to go up.
Flash Cards: To start with you'll need more flash cards and/or a portable storage unit you can use in the field.
Flash Card A type of camera memory card that can retain data after the system has been turned off. Also known as a flash memory card or media card. Flash Duration Refers to the very short amount of time it usually takes for a flash to fire.
Flash card reader. An accessory that attaches to your computer by cable. You insert a flash memory card into the reader to transfer files.
Flash memory card. A card containing chips that store images.
flash card:
A memory card that works with the flash memory, allowing the camera to retain data after the system has been turned off.
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CompactFlash card
CompactFlash cards support dual voltage and will operate at either 3.3 volts or 5 volts.
CompactFlash card
Rewritable removable memory or function card developed by SanDisk in 1994. In contrast with SmartMedia or xD-Picture Card technology, it has a built-in controller.
Compact Flash Cards
Compact Flash Card is the most common format in use for digital camera storage but can also be used by other devices. Comes in two version Type I and Type II.
Compact Flash card selection icon
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File number
Color temperature value
Custom white balance number
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Large Flash Cards have billions of transistors on them. Even a single impurity (dust) can destroy a chip. Manufacturers sort out devices with impurities early in the manufacturing process.
Compact Flash Card. A memory storage card of the Compact Flash standard. CF Type I is a 5mm high solid state card, while CF Type II is a 9mm high solid state or Microdrive card.
Chroma
The value of saturation + hue of a pixel; its colour.
Compact Flash Card (CF card)
A popular flash memory device, which is available in a number of storage capacities.
Compact Flash Card: A digital image storing mechanism that is increasing in popularity and thus functionality. Flash memory is a safe, highly reliable form of storage that doesn't need power to hold the images after they are saved.
A variety of flash cards. Courtesy of Kodak.
CompactFlash (CF) was developed by SanDisk Corp and these cards are about the size of a matchbook.
"4 GB compact flash cards capture my RAW images..."
The last few years have seen me changing photo gear at a frenzied pace. Seems I’ve hardly had time to learn the nuances of one camera before moving on to the next.
Compact Flash Card
A common type of digital camera memory card. There are two types of CF cards. Type 1 and type 11, that vary in their thickness. Type 1 is thinner.
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CF. Compact Flash card. Used in your digital camera to record images. Storage space ranges from 16MB up to 12GB. A company in Japan is currently developing a CF card that will store 2TB of information or 2,000 Megabytes.
SanDisk compact flash cards: 16 GB; 8 GB; 4 GB; 2 GB
For a camera body and one lens, keep the camera around your neck and ready to use. To hold a camera system, start by reading the photo.net article on camera bags.
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Camera uses CompactFlash card and it has CF II compatible slot, so you can use high capacity CF cards such as 340 MB IBM Microdrive.
CF Card Compact Flash cards
Perhaps the most common memory card, it has a capacity as high as 2Gb, or larger.
Lexar 4GB 300x CompactFlash Card
$58.95
Memory cards are cheaper now than ever before, and offer higher storage capacities and as well as video storage options.
I keep a flash card wallet in my vest, with the unused cards placed with the manufacturer's name and logo facing up. Once the card is filled and removed from my Nikon D2h, I turn the card over so I know it has been shot.
Fortunately, most modern mobile phones have an expandable memory - using a slot-in miniature flash card that can add gigabytes to your picture-taking capacity.
I remember spending a week during my college years studying flash cards for over a thousand vocabulary words. Although I was an English major and had loved reading, I had never really took it upon myself to learn the definitions of the hard words.
Compact Flash cards are big and square and are used by most large cameras (except Panasonics, which use SDs). Secure Digital cards are small and rectangular, and are used by most small cameras (except some Canons, which use CFs).
When Lanting gets to his location, he prefers using multiple flash cards to break up a shooting day. 'I'm conservative in terms of the amount of images that I entrust to one memory card,' he says, 'because things can go wrong.
My parade and festival kit consists of two zoom lenses, a back up camera body, flash, compact flash cards, and extra batteries. All this fits very compactly in a small camera bag as one of the lenses is on the body I carry.
Digital frames that offer wireless transfer can be very handy and get you around the issues related to the type of flash card. Most of these rely on Bluetooth technology and you may need to purchase a separate adaptor.
The main advantage of RAW over TIFF is that it takes a lot less time to record onto the Compact Flash Card so they don't fill up the buffer for as long.
The belt system allows me to quickly change between lens and keep all my compact flash cards together in safe place.
Ok, on to the pictures. I only had a 32meg compact flash card. This card is a Kodak that I picked up for $8 brand new. NOTE: even though it says Kodak on it, it is made by Lexar, and for $8 it's hard to beat.
Memory Stick Pro - The year 2003 upgrade to Sony's Memory Stick flash cards. The new MS Pro cards are available in 256MB, 512MB and 1GB capacities and offer faster read/write times.
Identical in size and shape to the MultiMedia Card (MMC) flash cards. The difference being that SD cards were designed to hold protected (copyrighted) data like songs.
A port on the computer that is faster than a serial port but slower than SCSI, USB, or IEEE 1394 ports. Often used by printers and flash card readers.
Parallel runways:
Runways that are the same distance apart from each other at all points.
(Secure Digital card) A flash memory card identical in size and shape to the MultiMedia Card (MMC) flash cards.
Sensor
An electronic device that converts the light allowed in by the shutter to an electrical signal.
Memory Cards: Removable chips using 'flash memory' on which a digital camera stores its image files. Also known as flash cards. Where the name CompactFlash originated.
MD: Microdrive.
MM: Multimedia ...
Media - Material that information is written to and stored on. Digital photography storage media includes Compact Flash cards Smart media card, SD cards, Memory Stick and CDs etc.
SecureDigital (SD) - Commonly used by Pentax and Nikon. These are small flash memory cards about half the size of a CompactFlash card. Details by About Guide to PDAs ...
Often used by printers and flash card readers. PCB - Printed Circuit Board A substrate on which a predetermined pattern or printed wiring and printed elements has been formed. Also called a printed wiring board (PWB).
We have three 1-gigabyte (1,024 megabyte) microdrives, which fit in most type-II compact flash compatible cameras, and an emergency 128-megabyte compact flash card (which also doubles as our digicam storage card) for our main cameras, ...
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When I first fired it up and pointed it to my 2Gb compact flash card it said it was going to take just under two hours to do the job, but in fact it did the whole recovery in about ten minutes and found all the files I had deleted.
group of companies that developed the technology for PC-card slots on modern laptop computers. There are PCMCIA adapters for Compact Flash (CF), SmartMedia (SM), Secure Digital (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC) and Memory Stick (MS) flash cards.
standard, which allows them to send data directly to a PictBridge-capable computer printer without the need for a computer. Some DVD recorders and television sets can read memory cards used in cameras; alternatively several types of flash card ...
Memory cards (4x 8GB SanDisk compact flash cards)
Spare (fully charged) camera batteries
Storm cover for camera and lens — this keeps off the rain and spray and can be particularly useful if you are working from a boat ...
Built in GPS. Great feature, but I hope it can be turned off.
Built in image stabilization, 2.5 to 4 stops supposedly gained
Only a single slot for SD memory cards is supported. Compact flash cards are faster.
Digital photography storage media includes compact flash cards and compact discs.
Megabyte (MB):
A measurement of data storage equal to 1024 kilobytes (KB).
Mega pixel:
Equal to one million pixels.
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 See also: Flash, Camera, Image, Digital, Card
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