My guess is, CF still exists for a couple reasons: 1) People who invested heavily in CF a couple years ago, say for their $10,000 professional level digital SLRs, don't want to throw all their cards out. So when they buy a new camera, they want it to use CF as well. 2) While it's not the smallest out there, it's small enough. A dozen CF cards take up no space. 3) It's not so small that you're likely to lose it. This is a big plus when you're shooting outdoors. You drop a microSD in grass and even if you saw where it went, you might never find it. You can also handle CF easily wearing gloves, which isn't true of the tiny ones. 4) In theory, CF should always be able to hold more data than the smaller formats.
Great reply. Thanks. I'm still somewhat surprised that Sony didn't just come out with a "Sony brand" CF adapter for their memory sticks, but hey- accepting the other formats exist is certainly good. They do have the new Reader accepting both memory stick & SD.
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My guess is, CF still exists for a couple reasons:
1) People who invested heavily in CF a couple years ago, say for their $10,000 professional level digital SLRs, don't want to throw all their cards out. So when they buy a new camera, they want it to use CF as well.
2) While it's not the smallest out there, it's small enough. A dozen CF cards take up no space.
3) It's not so small that you're likely to lose it. This is a big plus when you're shooting outdoors. You drop a microSD in grass and even if you saw where it went, you might never find it. You can also handle CF easily wearing gloves, which isn't true of the tiny ones.
4) In theory, CF should always be able to hold more data than the smaller formats.
Great reply. Thanks. I'm still somewhat surprised that Sony didn't just come out with a "Sony brand" CF adapter for their memory sticks, but hey- accepting the other formats exist is certainly good. They do have the new Reader accepting both memory stick & SD.