Memory – All Things Related

We aren't speaking human memory here – although that kind of memory is important too. We are talking electronic camera memory. Digicam memory is where your image information or pictures are stored in your digital camera.

The majority of the newer digital cameras have quite small amounts of “built-in” memory. Almost all digicams depend on media or memory sticks for storage. A memory card is like re-useable film. Fill it with your pictures, download the photographs, and then fill the card repeatedly. Media cards don’t wear out simply.

To employ a media card, insert it into the matching slot on your camera. When you take a picture, the camera saves the image information to the media card. When the card is full, it has got to be emptied or downloaded to your computer’s hard drive. There are many ways to do this. One way is to insert the card into the corresponding slot on the PC. Software does the rest. Another way is to attach the camera to the PC using USB or Firewire technology. The latest method is wireless or Wi-Fi technology-no removing the card from the camera or hooking up wires. At this point in time, only the newest camera models use Wi-Fi.

There are a few kinds of digital memory. The choice of media is dictated by the camera. SmartMedia, SecureDigital, Compact Flash, Multimedia, Memory Stick and xD Picture cards are the commonest. Media cards are available with capacities ranging up to 2 gbs. (GB).

After your photographs are moved to you computer’s drive, remember to back up your pictures to a separate storage device. As reliable as hard drives are, failures do occur. A second internal hard drive, an external disk drive, a Zip disk, a CD or DVD is common back up devices. Web sites are available to store back up pictures for a little fee.

Geoffrey Bond is a professional photographer. He writes extensively on all things camera related and specifically on memory cards for digital cameras.

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