Hello FotoCentre,
Just wanted to pipe in with my 2 bob's worth re CF vs Microdrive.
IMHO, CF would probably be the better choice of the two for a number of reasons that I'm speculating:
1. No moving parts, so less chance for mechanical failure
2. No spinning drive, so likely to use less power
3. Choice of 1GB or 2GB available today so no real difference in capacity to what microdrive offers.
Anyways, most of the time, the likely damage that could occur is when you take the storage device
out of the camera and plug into reader or external hard disk drive. That's when you can potentially
drop the storage device. If you dropped a CF, it'll most likely shrug it off, but if you dropped a microdrive
it could spell the end of the pictures that you've stored in it.
In terms of performance there seems to be faster and faster CF cards available, 45x and 52x. But in a
D30, D60 or 10D, the actual data transfer from the camera to the CF is the bottleneck so your
recovery time from when the buffer in the camera flushes the data to the CF (or microdrive) isn't great.
In the EOS 1Ds, this isn't a problem as that camera as a faster bus which can take advantage of the
greater speed of the storage card.
BTW, I found a great place to shop for CF cards:
www.powerinnumbers.com.au - and I've even visted them to buy stuff directly. They are a really good
company to deal with, so I thoroughly recommend them, not to mention their keen pricing.
I bought a 1GB CF card from them and went overseas to India to shoot pictures. I also bought an X-Drive so I didn't need to bring my laptop along to dowload the pictures every night. I shoot in RAW mode only and with a 1GB card, I can get around 130-160 pictures into the card.
When I came back I had about 2000 pictures in my 40GB X-Drive II and it was half full. So that's a fantastic solution for me. I also had a 256MB CF card as a backup in case the 1GB failed. It worked flawlessly.
Good luck with your decision.
Regards,
Lawrance Lee EOS 10D user Melbourne, Australia
----Original Message Follows---- - --- FotoCenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody point out the advantages, if any, of > going for a Micro Drive CF card? > personaly I see that: > -Micro Drive has moving parts... > -Cost per MB is usually higher in Micro Drive > Doesn't it pay off to carry a few more chips in the > pocket or bag???
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