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.
Most of the newer digital cameras have quite small amounts of "on-board" memory. Nearly all electronic cameras depend on media or memory devices for storage. A memory card is like re-useable film. Fill it with your images, download the images, and then fill the card again and again. Media cards don't wear out simply.
To use a digital memory card, put it into the equivalent slot on your digital camera. When you snap, the machine saves the picture data to the memory card. If you memory storage device has reached max capacity, it must be backed up to your PC's drive. There are a few techniques to try this. One way is to insert the card into the correspondent slot on the computer. Software does the rest. An alternate way is to connect the camera to the computer using USB or Firewire technology. The newest methodology is wireless or Wi-Fi technology-no removing the card from the camera or hooking up cables. At about that point in time, only the most recent camera models use Wi-Fi.
There are many sorts of memory card on the market. The choice of media is dictated by the camera. Compact Flash, SecureDigital, SmartMedia, Multi media, Memory Stick and xD Picture cards are the most typical. Media cards are available with capacities ranging up to 2 gigs (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.
Most of the newer digital cameras have quite small amounts of "on-board" memory. Nearly all electronic cameras depend on media or memory devices for storage. A memory card is like re-useable film. Fill it with your images, download the images, and then fill the card again and again. Media cards don't wear out simply.
To use a digital memory card, put it into the equivalent slot on your digital camera. When you snap, the machine saves the picture data to the memory card. If you memory storage device has reached max capacity, it must be backed up to your PC's drive. There are a few techniques to try this. One way is to insert the card into the correspondent slot on the computer. Software does the rest. An alternate way is to connect the camera to the computer using USB or Firewire technology. The newest methodology is wireless or Wi-Fi technology-no removing the card from the camera or hooking up cables. At about that point in time, only the most recent camera models use Wi-Fi.
There are many sorts of memory card on the market. The choice of media is dictated by the camera. Compact Flash, SecureDigital, SmartMedia, Multi media, Memory Stick and xD Picture cards are the most typical. Media cards are available with capacities ranging up to 2 gigs (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.
About the Author:
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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