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Chapter 12: Taking Great Pictures
Memory Cards, Disks, and Sticks
After the image sensor captures a picture in your digital camera, the digital
information is stored on removable media, such as a CompactFlash, xD Card,
Secure Digital card, Memory Stick, SmartMedia, Microdrive, floppy disk,
or CD-R.
While you can still find digital cameras that store pictures on CD-R or floppy
disk, such models are almost entirely overshadowed by cameras that use
removable memory cards. Compared to removable memory, floppy disks
and CDs are slow, bulky, and limited in capacity.
Memory cards are small, durable, and have almost unlimited reusability. And
while higher capacity cards are always priced higher than lower capacity cards,
storage technology advancements invariably lower price barriers.
Buying additional storage media, like these CompactFlash cards,
allows you to take many more photos in a single session.
The size of your storage media dictates how many picture you can store. The
media that is included with some cameras can only hold a few high-resolution
pictures. This type of low-capacity card can be impractical for situations such
as travelling. To give yourself more flexibility, you might want to purchase
additional removable storage media.
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