2006-12-28 12:45:42 · 8 answers · asked by sydney m 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
Compact Flash (CF) are memory cards...which are typically used to store photos in a digital camera. However, due to the ever shrinking size of many of the newer compact cameras, the physical size of the CF is just too big...and you will find that Secure Digital (SD) cards are more commonly used (because they are smaller in size).
CF and SD are not compatible due to their different physical sizes, which means you cannot use both in one camera. You must use the correct one for the type of camera that you have.
Compact Flash cards can still be found in some Digital SLR cameras because they are larger cameras, so are not restricted to the smaller sized SD card.
All flash memory cards (SD, CF, etc can also be used to store and transfer photos, text files, MP3s etc...much the same way as a CD or DVD disk or USB Thumb Drive).
You just need a card reader to put the card into, and then plug it into your PC via your USB port.
2006-12-28 15:33:07 · answer #1 · answered by Petra_au 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a small integrated memory chip most commonly used to store digital image data. It can be used in the camera like film, removed and inserted into a reading device (drive) commonly available on personal computers, and the images can be transferred into software in the computer that stores them. You can use compact flash and several other types of camera media over and over literally tens of thousands of times, and never spend a cent on film again.
2006-12-28 12:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by Timothy W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Compact Flash is a type of memory card you use to store digital photos in a digital camera.
2006-12-28 12:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by Mike S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I as quickly as had a topic with a CF card, in spite of the undeniable fact that it did no longer ought to do with the digicam. It became the cardboard reader I had on the time. It became a affordable kind (that I paid too plenty for) that did no longer have the cardboard slide into it very a techniques. the subject became that the cardboard did no longer align with the pins alright and finally the pins started unfavorable the cardboard. If I hadn't caught it in the past putting it interior the digicam i will have broken a pin. I threw that card out and acquired a clean card reader and each little thing's been effective considering the fact that. each and every digicam i've got used with a CF card is especially much impossible to get it in there crooked. you ought to insert the cardboard virtually thoroughly interior the digicam, with handbook tracks interior the cardboard slot, for it to even get on the brink of the pins. it isn't the CF card or the digicam that'll be the subject.
2016-11-24 21:31:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is a storage device, it typically uses flash memory in a standardized enclosure, and was first specified and produced by SanDisk in 1994. Ypu can save here all data information
2006-12-28 12:54:59 · answer #5 · answered by borealwinter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BAsically it is a memory card you can use in your camera to store pictures in. It is a small card and there are various types such as SD, MMC etc.
They can also be used in mobile phones and a lot of laptops now come with card readers built in. When you plug one in to a PC it is recognised as an extra drive so can be used for removable media
2006-12-28 12:59:18 · answer #6 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a kinda memory card...u can say that its a TYPE of memory storage device used in digital cams
2006-12-28 13:20:19 · answer #7 · answered by dumb007 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_flash it will tell you what it is.. good luck bless
2006-12-28 12:49:06 · answer #8 · answered by loving the super cat 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋