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>>34355 Just about every prosumer and professional camera I can think off off the top of my head uses CF Type 2 if it has a CF slot; the rest don't use CF at all. >>34345 They're surprisingly durable, but I wouldn't send em through a washer and dryer. My 5gb Seagate Microdrive has survived dozens of falls, and general rough handling; they're next to indestructible when the platter inside isn't spinning; and it's only spinning when it's connected to something - As long as you don't shake your camera or drop it, it won't break unless you get unlucky with a dud. They last about as long as flash memory when you treat them well, but the difference is that they croak suddenly, unlike flash memory where it degrades slowly, giving you plenty of time to back stuff up. As far as power use goes - Microdrives are nasty about that, but it isn't terrible. You'll get 15 or 20 minutes less battery life, in exchange for massive amounts of space to take RAWs to your heart's delight. You ought to keep a spare battery or two around anyway, really, so it's only a problem for me when I'm stuck charger-less for more then two or three days. Either way, it's cost effective. 5gb of Microdrive, back when I got mine, went for about the same as 1gb of Flash, and I can easily fill 1gb in a day. Another handy advantage is not needing to swap in a fresh, empty CF card when you fill it up (As you probably won't fill it if you move your pictures to your PC once a week), meaning unless you lose your whole camera, you're not going to lose your CF card any time soon. Then again, I found a 2gb SD card for $20 on Black Friday; I nabbed two of them despite not needing them for anything. I'd rather have 5gb of Flash then a 20gb Microdrive, and with the prices of flash memory at where they are, I'm probably going to replace my microdrive as soon as it croaks or gets completely overshadowed by flash memory with a nice beefy flash card.
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