John, The cards are already out. See http://www.dpreview.com/news/0211/02112803preteccftest.asp for a test of the 1.5 & 3 GB CF cards.
Bruce Thursday, December 19, 2002, 10:46:54 PM, you wrote: JM> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:32:20 -0600 (CST), Chris Brogden wrote: >>On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, John Mullan wrote: >> >>> xD memory is the newest player on the block. "eXtreme Digital" is >>> designed with a capacity of up to 8GB. So far Canon and Fuji seem to >>> be the only users. Given its small size, approximately the dimensions >>> of a U.S. penny, squared off, I suspect it will be popular with other >>> manufacturers soon. >> >>Actually, Olympus is the only current user of XD cards. You're probably >>thinking of MMC/SD (MultiaMedia Cards and Secure Digital cards), which >>Canon uses in their digital video cameras (not in their still cameras), >>and which Kodak also uses in digital still cameras. I personally hate the >>cards, as they're so small that they're easy to lose. >> >>BTW, don't count on ever seeing an 8GB version. Lots of cards have the >>potential to reach massive storage capacity, but never go that high >>because almost no one would buy them, or because the technology is later >>found to be flawed. Look at Sony's Memory Stick. Sony had claimed >>gigabyte capacity, but it doesn't look like they're going beyond 128MB. >>The new (and largely incompatible) form of Memory Stick called Memory >>Stick Pro will come out sometime next year, and that could conceivably >>reach gigabyte+ capacities, but it's not really economically viable until >>storage costs come down. >> >>chris >> JM> The Fuji Finepix F402, 2650, A200, A203, A303, and 3800 as well as the Olympus C-50, C-730, JM> and C-5050 all use the xD chip. Considering how memory prices have fallen, and as pixel JM> count goes up, I expect to see 1 GB memory cards soon. Multi-Gigabyte memories are a JM> little further out. I can remember spending several hundred dollars to add 16 MB to a PC. JM> Now PC memory is dirt cheap. I expect flash memory to do the same. JM> jm
