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Peter J. Alling wrote:
Actually my biggest problem is the form factor, sd cards are just too damned small. If you just put one in the device, (camera, phone, whatever), and leave it there it isn't a problem, but if you intend to change them in and out they are just too fiddley, and you have a better chance of dropping one and not ever finding it again. I dropped an exposed roll of 35mm down a sewer grate once, that was painful enough.
Rob Brigham wrote:
The problem is more the capacity of the SD cards in my opinion.
I am 100% convinced CF is here to stay as the 'standard' for DSLRs.
Take an extreme example of the EOS 1Ds or the Kodak 14n - how many images do you think you would get on a 1Gb CF card then? Now look at the DSLRS pushing towards 8Mp as the second wave and suddenly this kind of extreme storage doesn't look so extreme anymore.
Sure SD cards will grow in capacity, but so will the data storage requirements of Digicams as the Megapixel race continues.
People seem to be suggesting that the difference between CF and SD in terms of price will dissappear because SD cards are getting bigger and cheaper. Well what do you suppose CF cards have been doing and will continue to do while this happens?
I was surprised to see mini-SD the other day - where did this come from? Maybe SD is dead too in that case?
I still think that in DSLR land the space saving of SD over CF is almost pointless in all but the extreme compacts. I still think they could have put CF into the istDs - just that they chose not to because of the market segment they were looking at.
PDAs, MP3s and Phones size is a major issue because they need to be
pocketable and the card makes up a more significant percentage of the
size - some MP3 players are little bigger than the card+battery. You are never going to have a pocketable DSLR using APS sensors so this
is not at all comparable.
I actually think the istDs is pitched just about as well as Pentax could have done in my opinion. The SD card thing will stop me seriously considering it any time soon, but then again I don't really need it anyway. Might have considered it as a backup if it took the same cards and was REALLY cheap though.
What ultimately stops me though is that I am looking for the istD to become my backup and my primary to have a larger sensor and better feel. I pick up my MZ-S to feel joy, but pick up the istD to take pictures.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nenad Djurdjevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 2004 07:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: *istDs and SD cards
I notice that a lot of people are concerned that the *istD and *istDs use different memory cards. I can understand if someone has made a big investment in CF cards that this would be annoying. However it is possible to buy a SD to CF adaptor for only a few dollars that allows SD cards to be used in the *istD. This makes CF cards redundant other than the fact that they are still cheaper than SD cards (at the moment). Most new cameras and in fact most electronic equipment now use SD cards (PDAs, phones, MP3 players, etc) and I think the CF card is on the way out.
I have only one 512MB CF card for my *istD and in my case it makes more sense to buy SD cards in future. I shoot only jpeg and download to my harddrive often. If anything, my Optio 43WR point and shoot needs bigger cards than my *istD as it has 30fps 640x480 video that chews up memory space very quickly indeed. In fact I am about to buy a high speed 1GB SD card that I will be able to use in either camera. Supposedly the SD-CF adaptor slows down writing to the card but if so I haven't noticed.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
