Memory Card 3

4. Memory Stick
This card is small and it’s rectangle. It’s invented and developed by Sony Company that has idea to design the memory card for electronic devices such as Digital Camera, Camcorder, TV, Telephone, Sound Recorder, Notebook and MP3 player that come from Sony; due to they don't need the buffer of camera to keep data temporarily before saving into card; this made the process of transferring data to be so very fast, and it has writable prevent system from Inattention, but it has some technical limit that made the highest capacity is limited at 256 MB only. After that, this card is developed to be smaller size with more capacity, more reading & recording speed become Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo respectively.

Memory Stick Pro is developed by has more reading & recording speed, more capacity but previously size. Poor point is expensive and the old-version of digital camera or old-device may not be able to use Memory Stick Pro. Therefore before buying Digital Camera every time, you should to see that can your digital camera use Memory Stick Pro?

Memory Stick Duo is small than original Memory Stick for advantage of design so digital camera is smaller more than the original but preserve property every function. In addition to Memory Stick Duo, it can use with digital camera that support normal memory stick by using Adaptor remake size is equal.

Memory Stick Pro Duo is Memory Stick Duo that it's developed reading & recording for more speed. If you want to bring Memory Stick Pro Duo to use with normal size Memory Stick, you can use Adaptor

-Reading & Recording speed 20 MB/s
-Voltage 2.7 - 3.6 V

5. XD - Picture Card (XD - Card)
XD - Card is memory card that it's invented by Fujifilm Company. This memory card is smallest at all and high price, so the present time, the only Fuji, Olympus and Kodak are using this memory card; SanDisk and Lexar are coming to share the market of XD-Card. However, some function of XD-Card will work with the camera that camera manufacturer only such as Panorama of Olympus digital camera; it can be used with Olympus XD – Card.

-Speed of Reading & Recording along volume of capacity
-Volume of capacity at 16, 32 MB Speed 1.3 - 5 MB/s
-Volume of capacity at 64, 128, 256 MB Speed 3 - 5 MB/s
-Volume of capacity >1 GB Speed 2.5 - 4 MB/s
-Voltage 3.3 V