[wellylug] Re: dig camera/CF card

[Mark Foster]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Persian wrote:

> Hi Andrej,
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:43:14 +1300, Andrej wrote:
>> If I were you I'd be looking for one that has a removable media,
>> and use a card-reader for the picture transfer.  That way the
>> cameras batteries don't get drained for this.  I'm using a DSE
>> 7-in-1 for this.  Another recommendation would be not to go
>> for SD or xSD cards as the "secure" comes at the price of
>> performance.  CF cards are a pretty safe bet, and come in
>> 2 GB for very reasonable money these days ....
>>
>
>
> Thanks Andrej.
> So do I definitely need a card reader? Any advice on that as well please?
> Should I only get the CF type card then and not consider the SD?

Card readers are cheap as chips these days, and I would imagine most are 
well supported as they use fairly standard drivers (Windows XP has them 
build in most of the time.) - but I can't speak from experience on the 
Linux supportability of them.

However most Card Readers read everything... SD is the 'other' major 
standard and you wouldn't go wrong with using those either.  My laptop has 
an inbuild SD reader.

Also, if the camera were to use XD, you can get SD to XD converters, so 
that tells me that theyre the same standard in a different layout, and 
that even if you dont have an XD reader, an SD one can work...

Mark.