UncleFai said:SD card has large exposed contact pads. CF cards relies on pin-in-hole contact where the card has holes and the pins are on the reader side. This makes it less likely to be damaged or oxidization.
But sometimes misalignment when you plug in ur card can cause damage to your CF card reader.. I spoilt 2 readers due to this... True story..
SD card has large exposed contact pads. CF cards relies on pin-in-hole contact where the card has holes and the pins are on the reader side. This makes it less likely to be damaged or oxidization.
ed9119 said:CF cards allow multi-byte parallel write or read at a the same time.
In short, its faster ....
some comparison tests here too...
SD and CF memory card performance
We only have to get from entry level user,
They all using the SD card only.
rhino123 said:Your point being?
The main thing here is CF card is still being utilised in professional cameras everywhere for a reason... and stability being one of them.
I am seeing SD card slots being implemented to professional cameras nowadays which might mean that SD card had finally caught up with CF card in term of stability, but there are still slot for CF card... might be because most professional had heaps of CF cards lying around... or that the camera makers are still not convince that SD card is more or as stable as CF card yet.
CF card is good more quality of built and the cost also get double you paid for.
In terms of image delivery what I shoots an still saving into the memory card and transfer into my PC, that is what we need.
In professional they everyday using the card for works like no tomorrow in professional photographer or wedding shop.
If compare from the small piece of SD card sure not so durable lah, accidentally slot wrong way in the card reader this may failure or crack.