[MacDV] Compactflash info help

[Gerhard]

You are right that CF II does not mean it is a microdrive and it was  
not my intention to imply that.  I know that 4 and 6 GB Hitachi  
drives are still readily available and there are likely other brands  
available but I doubt that much interest remains for them today.  The  
iPod mini was the largest single user of microdrives but they have  
been out of production for a few months now.

In 1996  I bought my first digital camera and a large 8 mb PCMI Flash  
Card, it cost $200 back then  <http://mypixel.ca/photo/Ricoh.jpg>.   
That card would hold 2 jpg images from a modern camera but most of  
were backing up on floppy disks (1.4 MB).   In those days I had two  
computers one with a 600 MB hard-drive and the other with 1.6 GB  
today people have more RAM installed in their systems.

Enough off topic rambling.

Gerhard


On Mar 10, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Shirley Kehr wrote:

> But realize also, that most CF II cards are NOT micro-drives. (In  
> other words, only a small percentage of CF II's would be micro- 
> drives.) I never even see them advertised anymore. CF cards are up  
> to 16 GB now.