- Basically a special version of
a PCMCIA card – Will plug right into a portable’s PC card slot with
inexpensive adapter ($10)
- Largest memory sizes (1 GB announced, 512MB on sale now)
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- Thinner media
- Needs more expensive adapters for PC slots ($60)
- Can be adapted to be read from floppies ($80)
- Readers are same cost as Compact Flash
- 128MB max capacity
- Mostly used by Olympus
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- Mostly Sony – heavily
promoted by them
- 128MB max capacity
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- CD-R – small, 3" disks;
only Sony so far, 156MB. Cheap media. Bulky cameras. Some models are slow
to save the image to disk.
- Secure Digital / MultiMediaCard – 128MB
- IBM MicroDrives – up to 1GB, Type II Compact Flash size – not all
cameras, mechanical
- Ultra Compact Flash – faster.
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