Re: About Sony memory stick Pro - Magic Gate

"Digital Photography Now" <infoplsremove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Sony announced last year that it planned to standardise its own memory
stick
> cards as Magic Gate types. Pro type cards have been Magic Gate from
the
> start. Third party brands may well continue to supply the old and slow
non
> Magic Gate type.

I never noticed that all memory stick pro cards had magic gate written
on them. I saw some what I thought was non magic gate memory stick pro
cards yesterday (they were blue) - maybe because they were 256 MB which
I was going to get till I saw the one which was 512 mb's. The one I got
is black.

> It's possible there are still some of the old blue (non Magic Gate)
memory
> sticks around; these are limited to 128MB max or 256MB consisting of
two
> banks of 128MB and a small switch to select between the two.

But didn't you say above that all memory stick pro cards had magic gate
from the start?
Or are you referring to Memory stick, rather than memory stick pro?

They are also
> very slow compared to the Pro cards. Older Sony cameras are not
compatible
> with Pro cards, though all the newer cameras can take either kind.

> I have heard people say that some memory is set aside for Magic Gate
> functions, but if that is true, it's a very small proportion of the
overall
> capacity if the card.

It seems that there is 460 Mb's on the card which is usable for digital
cameras. The rest is for
magic gate functions which camera users don't use. The Sony tech guy
said magic gate technology has a 4 pin parellel interface to connect
inside the camera, which the non magic gate does not. But magic gate
cards are faster reading and writing than non magic gate. In my view, I
think it might have been better if Sony had also made Memory stick pro
cards for cameras only as they did before and not added features which
digical camera users can't use. Oh well, they all do what they want :)
Thanks.

> Ian

Good name. Its my brother's name :)

Cathy


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