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Subject: [OM] Re: Xd cards
From: <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:21:27 +0000
You are correct.  I can't be categorical with respect to processing speed since 
the camera itself is ultimately a bottleneck whether it uses Xd cards, CF cards 
or any other technology.  My 5D can't go as fast as current CF card technology. 
 However, if a 100GB CF card were released tomorrow the 5D could use it without 
problem.   I don't think the same could be said of Xd cards.

Chuck Norcutt


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  Subject: [OM] Re: Xd cards
>  Sent: Jun 17 '07 03:07
>  
>  
>  Not sure I completely agree. I put an F version of an Xd card in my  
>  C-7000.  I think the camera was designed long before there was an F  
>  card and it made a dramatic improvement in performance. It is very  
>  doubtful that the C-7000 was designed with an F card in mind.
>  
>  On the other hand almost all the Coolpix cameras used CF cards up to  
>  a certain point as did many other digicams and none of them could  
>  take advantage of the speed increases of CF cards. People who bought  
>  more expensive cards for those cameras just threw their money away.  
>  You may be correct in certain instances, but I don't think you can be  
>  categorical about it.
>  
>  
>  
>  Winsor
>  Long Beach, California, USA
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>  
>  
>  
>  On / June 16, 2007 CE, at 7:08 PM, <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
>  <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>  > A fundamental difference between Xd cards and CF cards is that the  
>  > controller for an Xd card is in the camera whereas a CF card is a  
>  > true EIDE hard drive with integral controller.  This means that the  
>  > Xd card technology supported by your camera is as old as the camera.
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