Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]that is a big task. www.dpreview.com is probably your best resource. interfaces are generally standard serial, USB, or firewire with the same advantages and disadvantages as any platform. USB2 and firewire are fast. most people use CF2 compact flash memory cards (solid state) or microdrives (tiny hard drives). I wouldn't buy a camera that didn't use this. The variation is in capacity (stated in Mb), speed and robustness to shock. Personally I think you need enough memory to hold 200-300 shots and some way of dumping them into temporary storage. So multiply your camera's image size by 300 and that tells you how much storage you need (eg 1Ds raw files are about 10Mb, so 300x10=3000Mb. That's 3x1Gb microdrives, which is what I have. This allows you to shoot a day without offloading images. I also have a digital wallet (mini standalone hard drive) that I can dump images onto without a laptop). steer clear of proprietary storage formats (eg sony memory stick). On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 05:53 PM, Oliver Bryk wrote: > Although a digital camera is definitely not in my foreseeable future I > was > intrigued by the variety of camera memory devices , capacities, > interfaces > and what-nots that were mentioned by our various correspondents on this > thread. Could someone summarize the relevant aspects of these devices > and > perhaps some idea how camera designers select from among them? - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html