 Donna R. Wageman |
Differenc between microdrive and compact flash car What is the difference between a microdrive card and a compact flash card? Is there a difference in the quality of images? Shoot wildlife and rodeo in a continuous mode.
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Terry R. Hatfield |
Hi Donna!If Your Going To Purchase One Get The CF Card It Lasts Much Longer Than The Microdrive Since It Has No Moving Parts,The Microdrive Is Actually A Little Mini Hardrive So To Speak, The Cf Cards Are Much Faster Too Both Are Equal In Image Quality...
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David A. Bliss |
Microdrives are fine, if you don't drop it, bump it, sneeze on it... ;-) Microdrives are very susceptible to damage. CF cards are very difficult to damage.
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Michael H. Cothran |
The micro drives are actually miniature hard drives. I've owned an IBM 1 gigabyte micro drive for 3 years. It sits in a Fuji S2 Pro digital camera. I can testify that it has worked flawlessly, and continues to do so. Not so with my friend's Lexar CF card. None of the responses have actually answered your question, which is "what is the difference?" And honestly, I don't know either. There should be no difference in image quality to my knowledge, but if there were, I would bet on the microdrive as being superior. If you need to remove your memory card often, then I would probably recommend purchasing the cheaper CF cards, but if you plan to use just one card in your camera all or most of the time, I believe I would buy a micro drive again if it were me. Michael H. Cothran www.mhcphoto.net
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Brendan Knell |
Also microdrives are generally cheaper, write faster, and come in bigger sizes. At Inkleys, a 6GB Hitachi microdrive is $280. A 4GB Lexar CF card is $500. Quite a big difference. So I would also go with the microdrive.
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Donna R. Wageman |
Thank you all so much! I use both--SanDisk Extreme and Lexar WA 1GB cards. I also have a Hitachi 2GB microdrive, which I know works great. I use them in a Nikon D70 updated body (new model, just out) and the Nikon 2DX. Have learned so much from "all" of you "out there". Appreciate!!
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Christopher A. Vedros |
A few more issues to consider with microdrives: Battery life - microdrives take power to run. This has probably improved some with more efficient designs, but a moving drive will always take more power than solid state memory. Write speed - Sorry Brendan, but hard drives will never write as fast as solid state memory. This probably won't be an issue for most shooting, but if you shoot a burst of shots and your camera doesn't have much buffer memory, the microdrive will slow you down before a flash card will. Compatibility - I've heard there are some compatibility issues with the Hitachi microdrives, so you should check into it to be sure it is compatible with your camera before making a purchase decision. I'm not saying no one should use microdrives, just that you should consider all the issues before deciding to buy. I agree with Michael that they're not as fragile as some might think. And there would be absolutely no difference in image quality between a microdrive and a CF card. They're both just storage media.
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Brendan Knell |
Sorry Chris, I was comparing them to regular, not High-speed. They are still faster than just regular CF cards right Chris?
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