subject: Understanding Of Digital Camera Storage Media - Digital Cameras, Storage - And Sound Recording [print this page] Currently on the market for digital cameras storage media are manifold, they basically can be divided into flash memory (such as the SM card, CF card, etc.), magnetic recording body (such as 1.44MB floppy disks, ZIP and ClIk) and phase-change recording body (such as CD -R/CD-RW, Etc.), capacity from a few MB to a few hundred MB range, and some even up to the 1G. Although these storage media are used in digital cameras, but have their own advantages and disadvantages, but the digital camera manufacturers for their own interests and market share considerations, often only one or two cards with them as their own storage media products , not compatible with some other high-capacity storage medium, which makes digital camera users can do only a limited choice. Although consumers when choosing a digital camera and do not care how many kinds of compatible storage media, but I find the need to let everyone know about the digital camera storage media.
1, SM Card SM card full name SMARtMEDIA, also called "smart cards", is the first application of digital cameras on one storage medium. Its advantage is small size, light weight, so using it can be done in a digital camera, compact, and it is also used in other digital products, such as MP3 Players And so on. Because small, it is very obvious shortcomings. Its capacity can not do more, most of the SM cards are 64MB or less capacity, but also the highest 128MB, prices are more expensive, a 64MB of SM cards to more than 700 yuan. Only Fuji, Olympus digital camera to support a full range of SM cards.
2, CF Card CF card full name CoMPACtFlASh, also called "mini flash memory cards", is widely used in digital camera storage media. Is larger than the SM card big, so capacity can be even larger. Products known to have 256MB. It consists of interface, type and , -type interface, compatible with IBM's miniature hard disk. However, its current capacity and prices compared with the SM card is not dominant, 64MB of CF card and SM card price almost the same. Canon, Nikon and Kodak digital cameras are used most of the CF card.
These two kinds of memory cards in digital cameras and the most widely used storage media, most brands of digital cameras in one of the cards, and some brands of digital cameras such as Fuji and Olympus CAMEDIAE-FInEPIXS1PRo 10 can simultaneously use two different interfaces of the memory card. Incidentally, some models such as the Ricoh RDC-7 built-in memory, if not insert the memory card can also be filming.
3, MEMoRyStICk MEMoRyStICk Japan Sony Introduced and used exclusively as a storage medium, the Chinese name called Memory Stick, mainly used in Sony's digital products. Memory Stick of the biggest advantages is cross-platform, widely used in Sony digital cameras, digital cameras, MP3 Players and digital voice recorder and other products on the type of cross platform than the SM card and CF card to use various types of platforms, but also much room for development, is an ideal storage medium. While experts are very optimistic about memory stick, but because it is the capacity of exclusive use and now only be 64MB, and expensive, but also not good to buy, how much constrained its development. Sony obviously took note of this issue, has licensed other companies to use Memory Stick, but the market has not found any other similar products. Therefore, the memory stick if you want to be used widely there is a long way to go.
4, 1.44BB floppy
To 1.44MB floppy disks as storage media digital camera is Sony's products, which built a floppy drive, so this camera, digital camera than the other bulky, seemed more cumbersome. 1.44MB floppy big advantage is cheap, you can buy in most places, and its versatility and convenience quite good, as long as a computer floppy disk drive, can read the data, unlike the SM card, CF card and memory bars and other storage media must use the camera or card reader to transfer interface, the data transfer to your computer.
