Yet last summer I paid <$30 including shipping for a 512mb CF card and I
was just looking to buy another and I find it will cost me >$40 (in fact
a 1gb card is only $5 or so higher than that now). That is not what I
would call a decrease in price. I do notice that XD and SD card are down
a bit, but still higher than CF's.
graywolf
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John Francis wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:50:12PM -0700, Joseph Tainter wrote:
Paul wrote:
Joe leaps.
On Feb 26, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote:
It appears that it will not take my CF cards, and that the
two-second delay is now relegated to a function menu.
Very disappointing. That's two strikes against it.
Joe
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I'll be pleased if I'm wrong. This mockup seems to lack buttons
and controls that I am used to on my D, and use a lot --
two-second delay, ISO set. If it does not take CF cards, then I
would have to add $800-$1000 to the street price to buy SD
cards. It would have to be very compelling in other areas.
I don't expect to get rid if my 'D, so I'd want to buy at least
some new media with a new body (for a start, unless Pentax add
compression the RAW files are going to be around 50% larger than
even the wasteful D layout - close to 2x the size of a DS raw).
At present I use 2 2GB cards (with my 2 1GB microdrives as reserve).
I'd probably buy a couple of 4GB cards if I were buying CF media;
I'd certainly buy at least one. That's a minimum of $140.
If, as seems likely, the camera only takes SD cards, that means
I'll have to buy totally new media. Currently 4GB SD cards don't
seem to be available, so I'd have to buy three or four 2GB cards.
That looks as though it would cost me perhaps as much as $540.
So the worst case for SD cards costs me $400 more, for 8GB of
additional storage, than I'd spend for only 4GB of extra CF.
But (and it's a big but) that's the street price today. It wasn't
that long ago that people scoffed when I used $100 as an estimated
price point for a 2GB CF - a price that seems conservative today.
By the time this camera becomes available, in six months or more,
I'm sure prices will have fallen even further, thus reducing the
incremental cost. And if I can be a little patient this time,
and wait for the three-month price drop on the cost of the body
(which I didn't do for the D; I paid $1695 for the camera as soon
as it hit the shelves, then saw the price tumble to $1300 before
I really used the camera for the first time) I expect SD prices
will drop even lower.
