On 14/01/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 13, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: > > > The topology of the interfaces of the cards make CF far more reliable > > from a technical standpoint, granted they may not offer quite the > > mechanical durability of the SD system but rarely will you find > > incompatibility issues with CF cards of all types in a wide array of > > readers. With SD it's suck it and see. > > This is a specious statement.
Which bit exactly? > I've experienced virtually no issues with a large volume of SD, CF, > Memory Stick, and xD cards. I have used them all *a lot*. I've always > purchased cards that had a good reputation: Sandisk, ATP, Transcend, > Kingston, Corsair amongst others. Then you're exceedingly lucky. > There are lots of non-name-brand of all of them out there, many of > which are junk. Buy junk and you get crappy reliability, regardless > of the type of card. > > The primary difference between an SD card and a CF card, other than > form factor, is that the CF card carries its own controller and the > SD card is dependent upon the controller in the reader device. > Therefore CF card readers are simpler, technically. So the same goes > for the SD card readers: use a crappy one and you'll get unreliable > or slow operation. Use a good one and you'll get good performance. > > It's really that simple. I'm so glad you think so, others such as myself and quite a number of vendors that I deal with tend to disagree. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
