Re: 2GB CF card vs. 4GB Microdrive....
- From: "Douglas..." <canvaspix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:40:00 +1000
JR wrote:
Which would you choose....about the same price. I know the microdrive is more fragile, but its double the capacity....Will it work with my Lexar firewire card reader?
JR
I know zilch about the reliability or otherwise of a microdrive but I know about storing images and some related information which might sway your decision. You cannot fit a 2gig card of images on a CD but you can squeeze 1 gig of images down to 800 meg and burn it to a CD.
The first rule of digital storage is to get the images off a card and onto some optical storage before you do anything... Consider it the negative you are making. I have some 3 year old DVDs which are corrupted. These were not cheap discs at the time either.
I have some 12 year old (Gold to be sure) CDs which are doing just fine. So for me, storing on CD is the only way. Others may have different ideas but if you follow my reasoning, then you'll arm yourself with a few 1 gig flash cards. Not just for the fit on CD thing but because by spreading your images over a handful of flash cards, it's unlikely all of them will get corrupted at the same time so in the event of the unthinkable, you can salvage a lot. If a MD goes down, it's usually lights out.
-- Douglas... Specifications are good to read but When it comes to judging Digital Cameras... I'm in the "how do the pictures look" category. .
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