What is a CF card?

CF card, also sometimes called a memory card, stands for Compact Flash Card and it is basically the camera's storage spot for your digital photos.

Most cameras save the photos onto the camera's internal memory first, and then transfer the photos onto the CF card.

CF cards come in different sizes depending on your camera and depending on how much memory storage it can hold. The more storage space (usually given in gigabytes, GBs) the more expensive these cards are. Some common brands of CF cards are SanDisk, Kingston, Lexar, Fujifilm and Transcend.

You can also get CF card readers to transfer your photos directly from the CF card to your computer. It should be pretty easy to remove the CF card from your camera to do this. I have one that's similar to this one: High Speed CF Compact Flash USB Card Reader It plugs into the computer's USB port and I find very handy.

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