They??™re thin and narrow, like a stick of chewing
gum, and they have a ???self-cleaning??? set of electrical contacts on the end??”that means it??™s hard
to damage the Memory Stick, even though the contacts are visible. Thanks to the card??™s unique
shape, you??™d have to try very, very hard to insert it into your digital camera incorrectly.
The real appeal of Memory Stick??“equipped digital cameras is you can remove the Memory
Stick and insert it into any other Sony Memory Stick??“enabled device to access your images.
Memory Stick products include VAIO laptops, digital picture frames, camcorders, digital
cameras, and handheld PCs.
On the other hand, if you deal with Memory Stick you have to live with the fact that Sony
breeds a slew of different Memory Stick subspecies:
?– Memory Stick The original Memory Sticks are not of much use to anyone with a
modern digital camera, since they have an upper limit of just 128MB.
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?– Memory Stick Pro This newer version of the original Memory Stick is faster and has a
higher capacity (a maximum of 32GB). Most digital cameras today use this version??”but
don??™t insert a Pro card in an older camera, because it will not work.
?– Memory Stick Duo A slightly smaller version of the Memory Stick, the Duo is about
two-thirds the size, designed for smaller cameras.
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