I was basing the card cost on an approximate average of 1GB SD cards that I've seen, and such a card will hold about 90 RAW istDS files, maybe less with the istD. Of course everyone will adjust the figures to reflect what they see as most accurate.
Shel "You meet the nicest people with a Pentax" > [Original Message] > From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 12/2/2005 9:23:10 AM > Subject: Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:02:57AM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > > Assuming that you fill one card per week and that the cost of the cards is > > $75.00 each, storing the photos on the cards is $3750.00 annual expense. > > Hmm. That's rather more than most people will do. $75 buys, what, 2GB of > flash memory nowadays? That's something like 100GB (10,000 raw images) > of storage per year. An extra 100GB of hard drive storage costs around > two orders of magnitude less than that $3750 figure. For offline backup > that's roughly the capacity of 25 DVDs, which is even cheaper. > > Flash memory is about the most expensive way you can think of to buy > storage today, and I don't see that changing.
