All About Memory Cards For Cameras: The Benefits And Advantages

By Rick Newman


Like all the other things digital memory cards for cameras come in all shapes and sizes. Compact and small these cards serve the basic purpose of storing images. A particular camera supports various numbers of cards through multiple card slots or by variations of a common format.

These chips work on flash memory which is not volatile and works without the supply of power. These chips are such designed such that they can store in them a large number of print-quality pictures. The design of the card and the capacity it holds varies from camera to camera.

Speed is the most puzzling factor while selecting memory chips for cameras. It is seen that many manufacturers state the speed in MBPS while others use the suffix 'x' where 1x equals 150kbps. Card system is used in the SD card formats. For instance a class 2 card gives a minimum speed of 2MBPS.

The main types of memory chips are Standard Digital (SD). The majority of cameras record the images and movies in one or more varieties of SD memory card. They are small postage stamp sized chips and are cheaply available. Today they are being displaced by the SDHC format (HC meaning "high capacity").

However these chips are largely being substituted by the SDHC format (where HC represents 'high capacity'). The most advantageous factor in these chips is the memory which ranges from 4GB to 32GB. These chips even have much better speed and reliable performance though they are same in size as SD chips. Another type of the chips that have emerged in the market are the SDXC chips. These chips have an inbuilt memory ranging from 32GB to 64GB. These are used in the DSLRs and other high definition cameras.

The professional DSLRs still have the support for the Compact Flash chips even when most of the DSLR cameras have upgraded to the SD formats. These cards are much stronger and larger than SD chips and have an edge over them in adverse conditions.




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