The xD Picture card format was developed by Olympus and Fujifilm but has never really caught on and there are signs that it’s now on the way out. When it came out, it was the smallest memory card format available, but [...]
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This is an old type of memory card that’s no longer in use, though there may still be a few older digital cameras in use around which take them. They’re roughly the same size as a compact flash card, though [...]
This is a new, high-capacity type of SD card, though they may soon take over from the standard sort. SD cards were previously limited to a maximum capacity of 1Gb, but now larger-capacity cards have been developed to work with [...]
Now the most popular memory card format amongst digital cameras, and starting to take over in low/mid-range digital SLRs too.
This is a simpler and older form of the SD card format used today. In practice, the two formats are interchangeable, though you seldom see ‘MM’ labelled cards now, and if you do the capacity is likely to be so [...]
Miniature hard disk in a Compact Flash card. At one time MicroDrives offered higher capacities than Compact Flash cards at an affordable price. Now there’s little difference, and MicroDrives are potentially more fragile than Compact Flash cards.
Proprietary memory card format developed by Sony and used in almost all Sony digital cameras, though Compact Flash or SD cards are used in its Alpha digital SLRs. First came the original Memory Stick, which was followed by the faster and [...]
Erase the data on a memory card to make it ‘blank’. Normally, once you’ve transferred all the images from your camera’s memory card to your computer, you might simply use the camera’s ‘delete all’ command (or equivalent) to delete them [...]
Compact Flash Type I cards are the ‘thin’ ones and Type II cards are the ‘fat’ ones (including MicroDrives). Most serious cameras will support both. You’ll need Type II card support for the latest high-capacity ‘fat’ Compact Flash cards, but [...]
Card readers make it easier to transfer digital photos to a computer. They plug into one of the computer’s USB ports and have slots for one or more different memory card types. The Belkin 15-in-1 card reader shown here can [...]