People ask you the dumbest questions right. I could answer questions about high end gear perhaps, but I'm tasked with getting the company a digital point and shoot and the most important requirement is that it MUST not have any volatile memory capability beyond the removable media. In other words if I forget to take the memory card, I'm dead in the water. High end cameras do this, like my D200 D1H are no problem. But we need a low end digital camera with no memory capability beyond the memory card. What's a good one? 4MP would be overkill. Looking for something on the shelf in Las Vegas, so current. Ideas?
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Recomendation needed. Cheap non memory digital point & shoot
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Cem_Usakligil
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I am confused...
... as to why this is a requirement. IINM, all digital cameras have a buffer memory for at least one image till the time it can be written to the memory card. Otherwise, no digital camera would function by definition. So what's the real deal here?
Cheers,
... as to why this is a requirement. IINM, all digital cameras have a buffer memory for at least one image till the time it can be written to the memory card. Otherwise, no digital camera would function by definition. So what's the real deal here?
Cheers,
Cem_Usakligil
Well-known member
No, I don't think he does mean it. I have read and reread the original question. Volatile memory is one which loses its content when the power is cut down. Such as the buffer of any digital camera out there. If the description would have been non-volatilememory, then you'd have been right.
What puzzles me though is that I am not aware of any point and shoot digicams which have built in non-volatile storage. If there are some, then they are certainly in the minority.
Go figure....
Cheers,
Bart_van_der_Wolf
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Yep, that's what's puzzling. I can only understand the requirement as one of security (against latent/dorment copies), but that's not an issue with volatile in-camera (non-permanent storage) memory to begin with.
Bart
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There are some with volatile storage. They're not the ones we normally consider as anything other than children's cameras. They usually cost $50 or less. I never found one that would work - lol.