6 GIG CF vs 12 GIG CF

[Espie]

I was at the PMA and I asked how much the 6 GIG CF card was. The rep told me it was $799.00, not that I could get it, but I asked if there was a special show price~ she said "No, but don't worry these will come down in prices pretty soon." I asked why and she said they were coming out with a 12 GIG CF card- can you imagine? 12 Gigs???

K- I'm just amazed with technology.
Thanks for keeping this site running.

[mookiemeister]

Amazing. Will those new super sized compactflash card usable in current Canon cameras?

[CyberDyneSystems]

From the 10D up all Canon DSLRs support the "FAT32" format for CF cards... FAT32... up to 120GB if I remeber correctly? Anyways,. it is alrge,. a lot larger than 12 Gigs :)

//edit FAT32 support up to 2 terrabytes! :shock:

But the firmware of the cameras will most likely limit that kind of support. No idea what type of CPU power it would take to address an allocation table with 2 terrabytes :shock:

[mookiemeister]

Also, what's more important is how fast data can be written to those compactflash cards. If it take too long to write data to memory, then it won't be as useful in a digital camera.

[scotgasch]

CDS..... I was wondering if you think someday we will use some version of CF cards as hard drives for our computers?

We could carry our drves everywhere we go!!

[sdommin]

I was at the PMA and I asked how much the 6 GIG CF card was. The rep told me it was $799.00, not that I could get it, but I asked if there was a special show price~ she said "No, but don't worry these will come down in prices pretty soon." I asked why and she said they were coming out with a 12 GIG CF card- can you imagine? 12 Gigs???

Holy cow, I wonder if that's TOO much storage space! Now folks will shoot for months, never download, then lose or break the card. Then they'll whine about all the photos they lost.

[CyberDyneSystems]

CDS..... I was wondering if you think someday we will use some version of CF cards as hard drives for our computers?

We could carry our drves everywhere we go!!

I'm sure as things keep getting smaller it will be an option,. the trouble is that currently as hard drive grow denser,. the OS is growing at the same rate.. so back when I was running Win3.1 on a P-100 with a 512MB hard drive,. the idea of a 1gig microdrive would have more than solved the portability delemna,..

...of course as long as 160GB hard drives are the norm,. then that 1GB microdrive deosn't look so big...

In another sense thoug,. we allready have the option,.. in the Palm devices.. a sleeker OS and apps,. and it all fits in little flash memory.

[PacAce]

Holy cow, I wonder if that's TOO much storage space! Now folks will shoot for months, never download, then lose or break the card. Then they'll whine about all the photos they lost.

I think they had a specific group of people in mind when they came out with these cards. They're targetting those people who want to photo-stitch a panoramic view of the entire Grand Canyon. :mrgreen: :lol:

[RichardtheSane]

Holy cow, I wonder if that's TOO much storage space! Now folks will shoot for months, never download, then lose or break the card. Then they'll whine about all the photos they lost.

I think they had a specific group of people in mind when they came out with these cards. They're targetting those people who want to photo-stitch a panoramic view of the entire Grand Canyon. :mrgreen: :lol:

Shot on a 1DS with a 400mm lens :)

[TeraGram93013]

Holy cow, I wonder if that's TOO much storage space!

No such thing!

What a long way we've come. Once upon a time I was dependent upon 8-inch floppies that held a mere 160K. The 10 meg hard drive for that machine was as big as my current computer's CPU case (which, fwiw, holds three physical HDs, a CD and an adjunct fan in the last drive bay)!

Of course we should all be thankful Moses isn't here to tell us to shut our yaps because back in HIS day it took two stone tablets just to hold 1.5 K !