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Although film cameras have been around over 150 years, the growing popularity of electronics made the digital camera inevitable. With digital photos in data files instead of on film, and digital cameras growing smaller with every incarnation, digital pictures needed to be stored in smaller and smaller spaces. Memory cards filled that need, just like Overstock.com fills your need for quality discount electronics.

First, check your digital camera. Every different camera model is designed to take a specific card type. Unfortunately, compact flash cards, memory sticks, multimedia cards, SD memory cards and other memory cards are not interchangeable. Fortunately, some clever consumer electronics engineers created the memory card reader. It's a plug-n-play device that has a slot for some or all memory card types. Memory card readers are also being built into new model computers and printers, especially photo printers.

Even though memory card brands are not interchangeable, they are inter-connectable. Many a digital picture frame also has slots for memory cards. Camcorders, MP3 players, iPods, cell phones and other devices have or are getting memory card slots because they are too small even for USB inputs and memory cards aren't just a connector to blank media, they are blank media and don't require a computer to facilitate file transfers.

By the way, if you shoot a lot, either digital pictures or video, you'll appreciate the new high capacity memory cards. At 8GB and more, they can expand your digital camera's capacity to over 1,000 digital photos or 6 hours of digital video. You may need that much to take digital pictures of all the new friends you make when you tell them about Overstock.com's great prices and great customer service.