On 01/ 6/10 01:38 PM, Neal Pollack wrote: > On 01/ 6/10 09:50 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> James Carlson wrote: >>> Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>>> PCMCIA stops at 20 Mbps (b for bits). Its not performant. USB 1.1 >>>> maxes out at 11 Mbps. USB 2.0 goes a lot faster (480 Mbps I think.) >>>> >>>> If it were possible to eliminate pcata it would eliminate quite a >>>> lot of >>>> complex code. I've not looked seriously into this -- are folks using >>>> pcmcia CF slots? Cardbus, PCI, or USB (2.0) are all vastly faster. >>> >>> Yes. I have a CF adapter that I use on PCMCIA with a laptop, but not so >>> often. The desktop machine has a USB-connected CF adapter that works >>> just as well, and SD is more common now anyway. >> >> Yeah, everyone uses USB for this stuff mostly these days, and SDcard >> is a lot more prevalent. (CF mostly lost the format wars, despite >> being simpler, and in many ways faster. > > > Not true. Almost ALL professional DSLR camera use CF to this day, and it is > very much faster than SD. > > SD took over the consumer devices since speed did not matter for those > devices. > A 2010 Nikon or Canon (or pick your brand) pro camera ALL use CF UDMA > devices.
Agree; my Canon uses CF, not SD. -- Shawn Walker
