Memory Sticks

Few consumer electronics have grown in popularity as quickly as digital cameras. As cameras grew smaller with every incarnation, digital pictures need to be stored in smaller and smaller spaces. memory cards fill that need, just like Overstock.com fills your need for quality discount electronics.

In the early 1990s, the Memory Stick memory card was created. Memory Sticks were among the largest memory cards when first designed, but newer models reduced in size as they grew in capacity. These new Memory Sticks are similar in size to a Compact Flash card, Secure Digital card or MultiMedia card. Memory Sticks were also among the first memory cards to be used in other devices--audio systems, camcorders, etc.

How many pictures can a USB Memory Stick hold? Many factors affect this, such as the camera's resolution (3MP vs. 6MP vs. 12MP) or the digital picture file format (TIFF vs. JPEG). A 1GB memory card can hold as few as 200 or as many as 800 digital pictures. The good news is prices keep dropping (and all the faster at Overstock.com), so the high-capacity memory card you want is a whole lot cheaper that it was last year.

There's even more good news: Consumer electronics use so many different memory cards that memory card readers were created, allowing people to plug into and read every common memory card in use. So, if your family members use a different digital camera than you use, get them a memory card reader. Then they can download digital photos from your digital cameras as easily as they download their own.