On Wed, Mar 23, 2016, at 01:57 PM, Bill wrote: > On 3/22/2016 6:02 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: > > On 3/22/2016 4:23 PM, Bill wrote: > >> On 3/22/2016 11:51 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > >>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:02 PM, P.J. Alling > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> I only report this, as I'm sure a number of others are on Amazon's > >>>> mailing > >>>> list here, because Amazon is advertising Smart Media cards. Smart > >>>> Media? > >>>> Someone still makes these? Someone still /uses/ these? > >>> > >>> No, but i still have 128mb CF cards a few 512's and a bunch of 1gig > >>> cards > >>>> > >> > >> I still have the first CF card I bought. It's a San Disc 1 gig card > >> that I paid $450.00 for. > >> > >> > > Well hell, I've still got a couple of CF cards, and an *ist-D to use > > them in... > > > > CF cards are still current memory in a number of "professional" DSLRs. > > Smart Media were used in Point and Shoots, and was dying as a form > > factor in 2002. Which is the Devonian era in digital terms. > > > > I think the only cameras that used them were Fujis.
Dunno about Smart Media cards but I have an old Pentax EI-L90 which uses PCMIA ATA cards, producing images of a whopping 0.4 megapixel. I think the EI-L90 was Pentax's first digital camera - odd looking beast. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
