[Wylug-discuss] Digital Camera Compatibility

[Martyn Ranyard]

Also worthy of note is that the USB SD Card readers you find in Poundland
are not only capable of reading SDHC cards (High capacity - as I recall
>2Gb), they are bootable too*!  Handy if you run out of usb sticks to wack a
live linux on :-)

--
Martyn
*Given a USB booting BIOS that is

On 29 March 2011 17:39, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>  I like Olympus cameras, which of course, like Fujifilm, use xD cards.
>>  They
>> are no problem whatsoever.  And FWIW, I bought a dedicated xD card reader
>> that
>> measures about 3 cm. long and the standard USB-pen-drive width direct from
>> Olympus at the cost of £5.  Unbeatable for convenience, IMO.
>>
>
> The cameras might be good, but they made the wrong choice on format.  Both
> Fujifilm and Olympus have as ditched xD a year ago and swithed to SD as far
> as
> I'm aware.  xD is a dead format that only goes up to 2Gbyte and is woefully
> slow (think up to 10 times slower) compared to modern CompactFlash and SD
> cards.
>
> SD has just beaten everyone (bar compactflash) to death.  You don't even
> bother with a card reader as your PC/DVD/Blu-Ray/TV/Laptop has an SD reader
> inbuilt.  If you do buy one, you can get one for <£1.50 with shipping...
>
> Even CompactFlash is being pushed further and further up towards the pro
> end
> of the range.  I expect that trend to continue.  The less said about Sony
> formats the better.
>
> jh
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