We don't need to tell you CF is one of the few memory card formats that's managed to survive the SD tidal wave (remember when you needed Memory Stick to use a Sony point-and-shoot?). But if you're the ...

Like old-school film cameras that require a roll of negatives to expose images onto, digital cameras lack onboard storage and use removable flash memory cards to ...

Size Increases over the Years As previously mentioned, the original range of CompactFlash cards held between 2 and 15 megabytes of data. Over the past 25 years, we've seen CF sizes balloon several ...

Sony, Nikon and SanDisk have developed a new high-speed specification for CompactFlash memory cards, making them more suited to HD video recording at higher bitrates, including RAW 3D. They are ...

Compact Flash (CF) Card is an important element of photography. They allow us to capture photos and videos in the desired formats and quality and transfer the footage to a computer. Under normal ...

The CompactFlash Association has announced a new memory card format: XQD. The new cards will measure 38.5 x 29.8 x 3.8mm, which is smaller than current CF cards but still slightly larger than SD. The ...

The illustration above shows the main differences between CompactFlash and Secure Digital. Apart from size, the data transfer speeds … The illustration above shows the main differences between ...

Memory cards are all over the map — a wide range of formats, sizes, and speeds. Some cards throw a bunch of numbers at you, while others may only list their capacity. Confusing doesn’t begin to ...

We investigate recent developments in memory cards and show you how to work out the right storage option for your camera… As image sensors gain higher resolution and more cameras become capable of ...