Memory Cards, SD, CompactFlash Type I, etc.

[Guest]

I am looking to buy a new Canon or Olympus Digital Camera. I would like to
know which memory card for the cameras, go best with Windows XP, which type
is the fastest, and what is the difference in speed between the SD Memory
Card, and the
Compact Flash Type I. I have heard that the SD is newer and faster, but I
don't know exactly what that means? Does it mean that it loads to my computer
faster? Does it mean its faster at taking the pictures? If it is faster, how
much faster? Does it take an extra 3 seconds? This is the kind of stuff I'm
wondering, please help me out.

 

[Beck]

I am looking to buy a new Canon or Olympus Digital Camera. I would like to
know which memory card for the cameras, go best with Windows XP, which
type
is the fastest, and what is the difference in speed between the SD Memory
Card, and the
Compact Flash Type I. I have heard that the SD is newer and faster, but I
don't know exactly what that means? Does it mean that it loads to my
computer
faster? Does it mean its faster at taking the pictures? If it is faster,
how
much faster? Does it take an extra 3 seconds? This is the kind of stuff
I'm
wondering, please help me out.

Previous Olympus cameras used Smartmedia cards. Newer cameras now use the
Fuji cards which can go to bigger sizes and also allow movies to the size of
the card and not just the size of one picture.
Go for a newer Fuji card one if you can.
I have no experience of Canons, sorry. As far as I know though, Canons do
not yet use Fuji cards.

 

[Guest]

This may help
http://www.core-sound.com/CF-and-SD-mass-storage-comparison.html

 

[Patrick Cleburne]

I am looking to buy a new Canon or Olympus Digital Camera. I would like to
know which memory card for the cameras, go best with Windows XP, which
type
is the fastest, and what is the difference in speed between the SD Memory
Card, and the
Compact Flash Type I.

I'm sure some die hard enthusiasts, pointy-headed purists and
equipment-fixated photo geeks will take issue....but the good news is any of
them work fine. In terms of ordinary day-to-day consumer level camera usage,
you won't perceive any noticeable differences. These days, name brand
digital camera equipment is all good!

Cleburne

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Surely, you buy a camera on its own merits.. if you were to ask this
question in a photographic store, they would have you committed, escorted
out of the building or suggest that you take up another pastime..

 

[Lil' Dave]

SD is faster. The speed they're referring to is storing the visual data to
the storage media. If clicking pictures in high resolution at a high rate
is important to you, you need faster media to store it to.
I still recommend digital tape for storing video.
They make cameras that use both, SD for stills, digital tape for video or
stills.