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How do digital cameras store pictures?
Compact Flash Type I: Stores up to 256 and is adaptable to PCMCIA slots in your laptop or can be read by an external card readers. The new card readers we sell handle all these popular media cards. See our digital accessory pages.
Compact Flash Type II: Stores up to 4GB and is typically used by professional type cameras. (IBM Micro Drive).
Smartmedia: Stores up to128MB of memory and can be adapted to a floppy disk drive, PCMCIA slot or external card reader.
Memory Sticks: Sony proprietary memory type. Used in most Sony Megapixel cameras. Stores up to 128MB of memory. Can be adapted to PCMCIA slots, external card readers or floppy drives.
Floppy Disk: Used only in Sony Mavica Cameras. Stores 1.44MB of memory. Goes in floppy drive only.
CD-R/ CD/RW: The Sony Mavica Series uses small 3"-rewritable CD's which can be read through a CD-Rom in a Mac or PC. Each holds 156MB.
SD/ MMC/ XD Cards: These are the newest cards for the very small digital cameras. They are available in sizes up to 128 now with eventual sizes up to 8 GB.
All 5 memory types are re-writeable with a variety of life spans, with the exception of CD-ROM's.
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