I don't see CF cards going away in the prosumer and pro segments. For one, they're available in up to 8 gig memory. That's important for some shooters. Second, a lot of Canon and Nikon's best customers have a big investment in CF cards. I would expect Pentax will follow suit. I also find SD cards to be inconveniently small. If you're not building tiny P&S cameras, there's no need to go that way. Paul
> I'm seeing more cameras using the SD card, and several using SD and CF. It > may be that CF is on the decline, or perhaps in some market segments. I'd > suggest that smaller cards will be the preferred choice of camera > manufacturers once memory capacity increases. SD cards are now up to 2 gb, > they have faster write and read speeds than before, and seem to be catching > up with CF cards with respect to capacity and cost will surely follow. > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Dave Kennedy > > > On 7/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snip > > > Finally, there's the CF card issue. Since Pentax considers the D to be > the top of the line, I expect that the successor high-end DSLR will use CF > cards. > > > > > > Is this true? Admittedly, I have not been following the new SLR > > market, but it seems to me that virtually *all* camera vendors which > > had used CF, are now using SD in the P&S market. > > > > I was looking for an inexpensive P&S for my son, and I figured I'd get > > a CF body since I had an extra CF card given to me, but new CF cameras > > seemed to have disappeared. > > > > dk > >
