Re: Re: Buffer upgrade to DSLR

[Lucas Rijnders]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:49:36 +0200, Ronald Arvidsson  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'm sure you're right. The whole idea of the "digital revolution" is  
that you dont upgrade but buy new stuff.

Except PC's of course: they have a fully open architecture. Worked pretty  
well to corner the market, too...
Conventional wisdom however says that a modular digital camera does not  
make much sense. The attempts at it (MF backs, Leica Digital back) do show  
some severe compromises in price and size, so conventional wisdom might  
even be right, though I am the first to admit that comparing a Leica to a  
Rebel on price is not completely fair :o)
In that regard it will be very interesting to see how the D645 will do  
against the digital-back competition...

However, I'm sure more memorycan be pressed into the cameras without  
incresing the space. The whole

Oh sure. I meant that I think that a camera without exchangeable memory  
modules will be smaller than one with exchangeble ones: not the module per  
sé are smaller, but you can leave out the connection mechanism, the  
'motherboard' need not be very strong, the memory does not need to be  
easily reachable, etc. etc.

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Regards, Lucas