Saturday, May 05, 2007
Oh, for the memory
I started out with Compact Flash cards. I remember thinking how dramatic they were: all that storage in such a little card. Then I bought a camera which used Sony Memory Stick technology. That seemed smaller, even more amazing.
If there is a pre-eminent memory card technology out there these days, I'd have to say it's the new "SD" (Secure Digital) card. If you stroll around WalMart's photography section, 9/10th's of the memory sold there is of the SD variety. Postage stamp sized, you can buy up to 2 gigs of memory (maybe even more). My new camera uses this.
Then I had a voice recorder: it used "xd" memory---smaller yet.
But, just recently I succumbed to a pent up desire to own an MP-3 player. I "thought" it took SD memory, and could some of the same cards my camera uses. Wrong. Or right. Or, both.
It uses "micro SD" memory, another beast. Let the following pictures show the story:
That memory stick was an amazing thing: 8 times more capacious than the first compact flash memory card I had. Here's a dime for comparison.
And here's the new "SD card" for comparison to it; this one holds 1 GB of memory or roughly 30 times
more bytes.
But, well, it gets more amazing: This particular SD card isn't really a memory card. It's an
"adapter"
Yep, that tiny baby is the new "micro SD" card, and it holds 2 gigs of memory. So, it can also be used in my camera, by placing it INSIDE the adapter (big old archaic thing), and then used in the camera. It's roughly 1/2 the thickness of the dime itself. Now if I can just not LOSE it.
I started out with Compact Flash cards. I remember thinking how dramatic they were: all that storage in such a little card. Then I bought a camera which used Sony Memory Stick technology. That seemed smaller, even more amazing.
If there is a pre-eminent memory card technology out there these days, I'd have to say it's the new "SD" (Secure Digital) card. If you stroll around WalMart's photography section, 9/10th's of the memory sold there is of the SD variety. Postage stamp sized, you can buy up to 2 gigs of memory (maybe even more). My new camera uses this.
Then I had a voice recorder: it used "xd" memory---smaller yet.
But, just recently I succumbed to a pent up desire to own an MP-3 player. I "thought" it took SD memory, and could some of the same cards my camera uses. Wrong. Or right. Or, both.
It uses "micro SD" memory, another beast. Let the following pictures show the story:
That memory stick was an amazing thing: 8 times more capacious than the first compact flash memory card I had. Here's a dime for comparison.
And here's the new "SD card" for comparison to it; this one holds 1 GB of memory or roughly 30 times
more bytes.But, well, it gets more amazing: This particular SD card isn't really a memory card. It's an
"adapter"
Yep, that tiny baby is the new "micro SD" card, and it holds 2 gigs of memory. So, it can also be used in my camera, by placing it INSIDE the adapter (big old archaic thing), and then used in the camera. It's roughly 1/2 the thickness of the dime itself. Now if I can just not LOSE it.
Labels: for the memory, Oh
