Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jan 4, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >>> there are plenty of CF using cameras out there to ensure that >>> they'll be around forever in practical terms. >> >> Not just cameras. There are a lot of pro digital audio recorders that >> use solid state memory instead of tape or disc media. All the ones I >> have worked with (Marantz, Edirol, M-Audio) use CF cards >> exclusively. I don't know of any that use SD cards. > >Likely an area which will change eventually. These devices are not >particularly size critical, nor are they inclined to change all that >quickly. There are tons and tons of music players, PDAs, micro DV >camcorders, etc, that use SD and smaller card formats.
Yep, but the pro devices generally use CF cards, in part *because* the cards are larger: Less likely to get lost and *much* easier to write meaningful amounts of text on. These are the reasons I prefer CF cards for cameras, too. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
