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9-16 Reference — DCS 465 Camera Back
PCMCIA Cards
“Standard,” removable, credit-card sized PCMCIA cards (Personal Com-
puter Memory Card International Association) are used for image storage.
The camera back incorporates a PCMCIA-ATA Type III slot.
The camera back saves images to the PCMCIA card currently plugged into
the KODAK camera back. You can fill one card, remove it, insert another
card, and continue shooting.
These removable, miniaturized media provide great flexibility since you
can carry a significant amount of image storage capability with you into
the field or the studio. The camera back functions as a card reader, so no
separate PCMCIA card reader is required. However, if you have a com-
mercially available PCMCIA card reader for your computer system, you
can return only the card to a central site for image retrieval while the
camera back remains in the field.
PCMCIA cards are extremely fragile, and are easily damaged — especially
if dropped. For this reason, use extreme care with the cards. Dropping a
card may destroy it, resulting in the loss of all of your data on the card.
Supported PCMCIA Cards
The DCS 465 Camera Back is designed to accept PCMCIA hard disk cards
that support the PCMCIA “ATA” interface, although all such cards may
not work. (Refer to the Read Me file on the supplied software driver
diskette for information on specific cards known to work with the DCS
465 Camera Back.) The ATA protocol is the same interface used for AT
disk drives in PCs. PCMCIA hard disk cards are available in a variety of
sizes, for example 105 and 170 megabyte (MB) sizes.
In addition to PCMCIA hard disk cards, the DCS 465 Camera Back will
accept flash memory cards if the cards support the ATA protocol. (This
means that standard PCMCIA memory SRAM cards are not supported.)