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[Mark McDougall]

On 26/08/2011 7:23 AM, Frank Pittel wrote:

> My camera (Canon 30D) uses CF cards and to my knowledge most SLR type
> digital cameras use them.

Only high-end (usually full frame) DSLR cameras use CF.

CF is still faster than SD due to its parallel bus, which is more-or-less an 
ATA bus. High-end cameras have larger sensors which require more storage, 
hence the higher throughput requirement in order to support 
multi-frames-per-second shooting.

I also believe that embedded PCs tend to include CF slots (as opposed to SD) 
for booting media from SSD, though that may be because it's easier to 
interface to existing chipsets?!? FWIW our last product - essentially an 
embedded PC platform - has CF, CFast (see below) but no SD.

The CF form factor now has a serial bus version, called C-Fast, but I think 
the jury is still out on that with regards to whether it will make a dent in 
the market place.

Regards,

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