Seriously. Camera companies used to make all their money off of film. But then they saw the digital camera steamroller coming their way and started thinking they had to preserve their business model somehow. So they started coming out with cameras that used proprietary memory card formats. That way, they could make at least some of their film money on memory card license royalties.

The world seems to be slowly standardizing on SD cards, though. Even the worst offenders, Fujifilm and Olympus, have announced SD card cameras.

However, technology marches on and people want smaller devices which are too small for even thumbnail-sized SD cards. So now we have miniSD and microSD cards. At least those usually have SD card adapters.

It all amounts to roughly the same thing, though. People who just want something to carry around usually get USB thumb drives. Otherwise, you just get whatever you need.

(I’m suffering through a particularly nasty, though it shouldn’t be, Macromedia Flash event…)

Flash memory always kind of confused me. Fair enough it’s a great replacement for floppies, and works in a lot of portable tech; however, it would be nice to have something less than a bazillion standards.

(Most often I see 13-in-1 readers and stuff like that… Why!?!?!)

Anyhow, it was good getting together. Hope the healing is continuing nicely.

Til next time!