Hmmmm . . . My last shoot before I bought my *ist DS, I shot 4 rolls of colour film, basically wasted because the birds didnt cooperate. That's at least $70 cdn.
A 1 gig SD here at $130 cdn that I can shoot an equivalent of 2 and 1/2 rolls, dump on a CD/harddrive or erase, and reuse, reuse, reuse is a bargain, I would think. Yeah, to buy 2 or 3 is a little out of pocket, but then the last time I bought film I spent over $250 to cover my holidays. herb > ---------- > > 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.
