help with camera

[Micky]

my s7000 finepix takes xd cards whitch you can only get 2gb max or shall i go for cf
compact flash card whitch is only slightly more expencive and 8gb storage.
apart from the capacity is there any differance in speed quality ect.
what's your pref ?

[LewisJ999]

I would get the 8GB one. Speed dosn't differ that much and with a 2GB you should be able to get about 250 photos, wereas with the 8 GB you should be able to get about 1000 photos.

[Micky]

thanks there is so many to choose from

[BIGGYIN]

Originally Posted by Micky

my s7000 finepix takes xd cards whitch you can only get 2gb max or shall i go for cf
compact flash card whitch is only slightly more expencive and 8gb storage.
apart from the capacity is there any differance in speed quality ect.
what's your pref ?

CF are faster and(bigger) you can never have too much space.(especially if shooting RAW)
I think xd cards are more expensive.

[Micky]

just found out mine takes microdrive ?whats the differance with cf

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4GB-ATA-IDE-CF...d=p3286.c0.m14

it's cheaper

[BIGGYIN]

Disadvantages
xD cards have a small maximum capacity relative to other memory card formats. First-generation xD cards have a maximum capacity of only 512 MiB; while Type M expands the theoretical maximum capacity to 8 GB, but as of January 2009[update] there are no cards available with capacity greater than 2 GiB.
xD cards have not kept up with the speed of other cards, notably Compact Flash and SD. The fastest xD card is less than 10% of the speed of current (2009) Compact Flash cards.
Although physically smaller than Secure Digital and Memory Stick cards, xD cards are larger than these competitors' reduced-size variants (microSD, and Memory Stick Micro).
xD cards are generally more expensive than other memory card types. As of May 2009[update], 2 GiB xD cards cost approximately 3 times the price of same-capacity SD cards.
xD cards are less widely supported by camera, card reader, and accessory manufacturers than other formats.[7]
The xD card format is proprietary to Fujifilm and Olympus, just as the Memory Stick format is to Sony. This means that no public documentation or implementation is available (see below for reverse-engineering results). By comparison, the CompactFlash format is described by completely open and free specifications, and a partial specification for the SD format is freely available
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XD-Picture_Card

[Micky]

so what's the best to get a xd 2gb or an cf or microdrive
still not sure which one is for the camera apart from xd ?

[BIGGYIN]

Originally Posted by Micky

so what's the best to get a xd 2gb or an cf or microdrive
still not sure which one is for the camera apart from xd ?

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilms7000/
This might help?
Slot 2: Compact Flash Type I/II
This link will be more helpful.
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/fu..._s7000-review/

[Micky]

thank's for that top sight tells you more than the hand book
i might take some deacent shots now

[BIGGYIN]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4GB-CF-MEMORY-...d=p3286.c0.m14
Derr,same one you put up.