Compact Flash or Microdrive

Bifta · 06-05-2004, 00:02

Probably the wrong forum, but, would I be better buying a 1 gig Microdrive or a 1 gig CF card for my camera? Which is more reliable?

06-05-2004, 00:15

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Originally Posted by Bifta

Probably the wrong forum, but, would I be better buying a 1 gig Microdrive or a 1 gig CF card for my camera? Which is more reliable?

I wouldn't put 'all my eggs in one basket', whatever is the more reliable, lol, my biggest cf is 96mb

**Paul** · 06-05-2004, 00:22

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Originally Posted by Bifta

Probably the wrong forum, but, would I be better buying a 1 gig Microdrive or a 1 gig CF card for my camera? Which is more reliable?

I have no experience of CF cards, but my 1GB microdrive has been 100% reliable so far.

btw, moved to Technology

Scrubbs · 06-05-2004, 00:23

may be slightly

but my latest camera is a niconcoolpix 2100
and i had a hell of a job transfering pix from the cam to the pc through the cable...I thought it was faulty and got it replaced but the new on e did the same

so i got a card reader
oh it uses cf no prob so far

ps exuse typos bacadi 8 year old

Sipowicz · 06-05-2004, 01:06

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Originally Posted by Bifta

Probably the wrong forum, but, would I be better buying a 1 gig Microdrive or a 1 gig CF card for my camera? Which is more reliable?

Remember CF's have NO moving parts, unlike the micro drive! So are less susceptible to damage from "hard handling". Some of the cheaper Mdrives have been known to fail very easily, but the Hitachi/IBM drives are well built. I have several "smaller" CF cards (4 x 256 Mb, 1 x 512Mb and a 64Mb -a freebie from Canon!) as per an earlier suggestion, to avoid having all my eggs in one basket!

I typically get 101 images at highest Jpeg quality on a 256 card, but just 39 at RAW.

Sipowicz · 06-05-2004, 01:08

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Originally Posted by Scrubbs

may be slightly

but my latest camera is a niconcoolpix 2100
and i had a hell of a job transfering pix from the cam to the pc through the cable...I thought it was faulty and got it replaced but the new on e did the same

so i got a card reader
oh it uses cf no prob so far

ps exuse typos bacadi 8 year old

Some CoolPix cameras (well my 885 at least) did not like going through an unpowered usb hub! Is that your connection? I recall an issue with the software and Win ME, are you using that os?

Bifta · 06-05-2004, 01:42

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Originally Posted by Sipowicz

Remember CF's have NO moving parts, unlike the micro drive! So are less susceptible to damage from "hard handling". Some of the cheaper Mdrives have been known to fail very easily, but the Hitachi/IBM drives are well built. I have several "smaller" CF cards (4 x 256 Mb, 1 x 512Mb and a 64Mb -a freebie from Canon!) as per an earlier suggestion, to avoid having all my eggs in one basket!

I typically get 101 images at highest Jpeg quality on a 256 card, but just 39 at RAW.

All the pictures i take are in RAW format, hense the need for some larger media, I'll probably go for the CF card. Cheers

altis · 06-05-2004, 10:46

The opinions of a professional photographer on this subject are here:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/cf.htm

(To summarise - he reckons that the Microdrive is the most reliable)