Fuji and Olympus have moved from Smartmedia to xD cards, which aren't the same as SD/MMC cards.
Canon have started using SD cards in their smaller cameras now, so I think I see where the wind is blowing. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James L. Sims) wrote: > May be off topic, Art, but the constantly expanding variety of memory > media for digital cameras is a real headache. When I dropped my Fuji > 6900 last month (actually, my cat tripped me and I fell on it), I > replaced it with a Canon Digital Rebel because it uses Compact Flash > memory media cards. The 6900 used Smart Media and, now, Fuji seems to > have switched to Secure Digital media. Compact Flash has been around a > while and I've been told that SanDisk will be releasing a 3 gig high > speed card in the near future. > > I don't know if any of the digital cameras can be connected to and > communicate with one of the flash drives but it would be a nice > feature. Some cameras that use Compact Flash will accept the IBM > Microdrive but I haven't seen anything about an interface that would > permit the use of a Jump Drive while shooting. > > I transfer the camera image files from the memory card to the computer > via a card reader. I do not use digital camera software except for > reading the Rebel's RAW (.CRW file extension) images. I understand that > you can read these direct with Photoshop 8. > > Jim Sims > > Arthur Entlich wrote: > > >I have a question that maybe someone will know the answer to. Since it > >is off topic you might wish to email me in private mail. > > > >I recently bought a small snapshot digital camera which has 16 megs of > >internal memory and takes Secure Digital memory for expansion. > > > >I was wondering if, rather than buying Secure Digital cards, is there > >some way to use these USB jump disks to download the image files > without > >special software, or can I load the software onto the jump disk so it > >will communicate with the camera and allow a download of the image > files? > > > >If not that, if I were to connect the jump disk to the camera while > >shooting, could the camera see this flash memory as usable and send > >images to it? > > > >I have several reasons why I'm interested in this approach. > > > >1) memory types keep on changing, and I will probably upgrade to a > >higher quality camera soon and don't want to invest in obsolete memory, > >if this works it might be universal, and if not, at least the jumpdisk > >has other usage. > > > >2) For some reason, (I expect marketing) the jumpdisks are much cheaper > >per MB that S.D. Flash memory, and it seems like their is more to them > >that the flash memory cards. > > > >Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
