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Compact Flash vs SmartMedia? (Was: Re: Bullet Train)
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Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:33:20 GMT
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message
news:slrn94uu2t.gi2.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu...
> Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
> > it had a bigger zoom ratio. The way you unload pictures is well thought out
> > but 115kbps makes for a slow process, it takes 30 min or so (and most of a
> > battery charge) for a full unload. This makes it somewhat impractical to
> > unload if both the PC and the camera are on batteries at the time unless
> > both are fully charged or close...
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> Yeah, this is why having a PCMCIA slot is so nice -- takes like 10 seconds
> to copy everything off of a 32MB card. Compact flash is cool because it is
> electronically exactly PCMCIA -- all you need is a cheap physical adapter.
Opinion time:
Compact Flash vs. SmartMedia? Which is better and why? I currently own a
camera (Olympus Camedia 360-DL or something like that) which uses SmartMedia.
Its smaller and lighter than Compact Flash, it looks newer (but I may be wrong),
and I think they're priced about the same. Which direction are cameras moving
in? I notice the Coolpix uses Compact Flash, and eventually I would like to buy
one of those (but it won't be for a while). After already spending an extra $60
on SmartMedia, I'm reluctant to move to a different format. I am interested in
hearing what others think of the two formats and their reasons behind their
opinions.
-Tim
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| (...) Hmm, Well my RCA Lyra MP3 player has a 64MB Compact Flash memory card and used to write the entire thing full of mp3 in about 10-20 seconds! (That is if I'm remembering correctly, one of the pins on the reader that attaches to the CF card is (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Bullet Train
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| (...) Yeah, this is why having a PCMCIA slot is so nice -- takes like 10 seconds to copy everything off of a 32MB card. Compact flash is cool because it is electronically exactly PCMCIA -- all you need is a cheap physical adapter. (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)
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