Looking for a cheap microdrive?

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

I figured you digital camera folk would like this:

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/darktips/story/0,24330,3597773,00.html

Scroll down a bit to see the story.

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[quade 4]

Unfortunately most microdrives don't work very well for the purposes of freefall photography. The thinner air at altitude has a tendancy to kill them.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[dragon2 2]

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Unfortunately most microdrives don't work very well for the purposes of freefall photography. The thinner air at altitude has a tendancy to kill them.

Still, I got a 1GB IBM microdrive cheap from a colleague, used it for my PDA for a while but the battery life was sh*t with the microdrive inserted.
So I put it in my 300D for the time being as it is not on my helmet yet. It's pretty fast... I think it is about as fast as an UltraII CF card.
It hasn't been in freefall (and I won't even try), but it has been up in the airplane a couple times, up to 23k (Thailand) and it still works.

I don't know the specifics of this, is it the thin air that kills it? I'd think the vibrations in freefall definately would, it being a harddrive and therefore fragile.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[quade 4]

All of the above.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[mooy 0]

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Unfortunately most microdrives don't work very well for the purposes of freefall photography. The thinner air at altitude has a tendancy to kill them.

Sorry but its in swe: http://mikrodatorn.idg.se/2.1030/1.80289

well its really noting new. just memorycard with a paralell ata.