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		<title>CompactFlash Association Announces Availability of the New CF5.0 Specification</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Echenique</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cupertino, California – February 22, 2010 &#8211; The CompactFlash Association (CFA) announces availability of the recently approved CF5.0 Specification. The CF5.0 work group was formed in November, 2008 to add key features to the already popular CF4.1 specification based on the PATA (Parallel ATA) interface. The new CF5.0 specification adds the following key features/benefits to the memory card that started the digital photography revolution. Key Feature 48 bit Addressing (Mandatory)- Data Set Management Command/Trim (Mandatory) Update ATA References to ATA-6 &#038; ATA 8/ACS-2- Performance Control (optional) Video Performance Guarantee (Optional) Identify Device CFA Specification Version Number (Mandatory) Changed Interface Electrical Specification to Better Comply with the ATA Standard (Mandatory) Benefits Capacity points beyond current limitation of 137GB (up to 144PB) &#038; more efficient data transfer (32MB per transfer versus 128KB per transfer) More efficient cleanup of unused space on memory card (LBA’s)- Access to advancements in the ATA standard Card performance quality of service framework- Quality of service for video capture applications to ensure quality recordings with no dropped frames Easier for host to determine card capabilities- Easier and better card design, compatible with advanced hosts. Mr. Shigeto Kanda of Canon and the CFA chairman of the board said, “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backing up your photos &#8211; a guide for photographers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Echenique</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the marvels of digital photography is the fact that taking photos no longer requires an investment of cash every single time you want to see how your photos turned out. One thing I tell my students all the time: TAKE PHOTOS! With digital, there is no recurring cost to practice. This will lead you to taking seventy-seven bazillion photos and having to store them all somewhere. Now, there are entire books dedicated to the subject of digital asset management, but in this article, I am going to talk about the most potentially expensive one: backups.Back in the film-only days, asset management meant having a good secure (fireproof) filing cabinet and some form of catalog to keep track of what photo was on what strip of film. The advent of personal computers allowed for the digitization of this information (via film scanners) and backups onto some form of durable media. Nowadays, we usually skip the whole film scanning step (unless that is your thing) and go straight to storing images on our computers and backing up from there. The problem is that we are usually pretty bad about keeping up this sort of discipline unless you are massively Type-A [...]]]></description>
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