[filmscanners] Re: Off Topic: About those USB flash memory drives...

["" <derek_c@cix.co.uk>]

Fuji and Olympus have moved from Smartmedia to xD cards, which aren't the
same as SD/MMC cards.

Canon have started using SD cards in their smaller cameras now, so I think
I see where the wind is blowing.

In article <4030DA0D.2040500@knology.net>, jlsims@knology.net (James L.
Sims) wrote:

> May be off topic, Art, but the constantly expanding variety of memory
> media for digital cameras is a real headache.  When I dropped my Fuji
> 6900 last month (actually, my cat tripped me and I fell on it), I
> replaced it with a Canon Digital Rebel because it uses Compact Flash
> memory media cards.  The 6900 used Smart Media and, now, Fuji seems to
> have switched to Secure Digital media.  Compact Flash has been around a
> while and I've been told that SanDisk will be releasing a 3 gig high
> speed card in the near future.
>
> I don't know if any of the digital cameras can be connected to and
> communicate with one of the flash drives but it would be a nice
> feature.  Some cameras that use Compact Flash will accept the IBM
> Microdrive but I haven't seen anything about an interface that would
> permit the use of a Jump Drive while shooting.
>
> I transfer the camera image files from the memory card to the computer
> via a card reader. I do not use digital camera software except for
> reading the Rebel's RAW (.CRW file extension) images.  I understand that
> you can read these direct with Photoshop 8.
>
> Jim Sims
>
> Arthur Entlich wrote:
>
> >I have a question that maybe someone will know the answer to.  Since it
> >is off topic you might wish to email me in private mail.
> >
> >I recently bought a small snapshot digital camera which has 16 megs of
> >internal memory and takes Secure Digital memory for expansion.
> >
> >I was wondering if, rather than buying Secure Digital cards, is there
> >some way to use these USB jump disks to download the image files
> without
> >special software, or can I load the software onto the jump disk so it
> >will communicate with the camera and allow a download of the image
> files?
> >
> >If not that, if I were to connect the jump disk to the camera while
> >shooting, could the camera see this flash memory as usable and send
> >images to it?
> >
> >I have several reasons why I'm interested in this approach.
> >
> >1) memory types keep on changing, and I will probably upgrade to a
> >higher quality camera soon and don't want to invest in obsolete memory,
> >if this works it might be universal, and if not, at least the jumpdisk
> >has other usage.
> >
> >2) For some reason, (I expect marketing) the jumpdisks are much cheaper
> >per MB that S.D. Flash memory, and it seems like their is more to them
> >that the flash memory cards.
> >
> >Art

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