Do people actually buy these

[timmyquest]

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=287656&is=REG

[scottbergerphoto]

Only rich people who never lose, drop, or break anything.

[defordphoto]

Or 1Ds owners...

[Tom W]

At that price, it should have a red stripe on it! ;)

[defordphoto]

At that price, it should have a red stripe on it! ;)

B&H prices on CFs are whacked.

[daaaveman]

check this one out.....not sure how much it's going to cost, but it ain't gonna be cheap


http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/lexar8GB40XTypeII.jpg


http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04021223lexar8gbcf.asp

[angrybunny]

Remeber those days when a 540 MB hard drive was considered huge and expensive?

[defordphoto]

Remeber those days when a 540 MB hard drive was considered huge and expensive?

I remember when there were no hard drives and 64K RAM seemed endless. Those killer 1.x Hz CPUs. :shock:

[Vegas Poboy]

For myself I don't think I'll ever go over the 1GB card I have now. Way too much editing & you can lose way to many pics if you damage the card. So far I enjoy the 512mb more than the rest.

[theflyingkiwi]

For myself I don't think I'll ever go over the 1GB card I have now. Way too much editing & you can lose way to many pics if you damage the card. So far I enjoy the 512mb more than the rest.

you strange you should say that, at some point when I got a 650mb hdd for my PC to go with my 420mb (many years ago) I had thought then I wouldn't need more.

I am now using a single 120gb hdd, and starting to get low with 25gb free!

I am using 2xgb cards for the camera, at the moment I can see that I will have that for a long time. I have yet to full both cards in day. but you know no matter what happens, the more you have the more you will use.

it is the same for money, I earn alot more than I did many years ago (gee I am starting to sound old :shock: ) and believe it or not I still spend a great deal.

:D

[Vegas Poboy]

For myself I don't think I'll ever go over the 1GB card I have now. Way too much editing & you can lose way to many pics if you damage the card. So far I enjoy the 512mb more than the rest.

you strange you should say that, at some point when I got a 650mb hdd for my PC to go with my 420mb (many years ago) I had thought then I wouldn't need more.

I am now using a single 120gb hdd, and starting to get low with 25gb free!

I am using 2xgb cards for the camera, at the moment I can see that I will have that for a long time. I have yet to full both cards in day. but you know no matter what happens, the more you have the more you will use.

it is the same for money, I earn alot more than I did many years ago (gee I am starting to sound old :shock: ) and believe it or not I still spend a great deal.

:D

Yes thats true but I use my notebook as the extra storage & @ first I was getting pretty sloppy with my skills thinking I did not have to pay for the prints but when you sit up & have over 300 pics to edit you start to make your shots count. Besides $1200.00 for memory :cry: I can use that on a lens, lights or travel cash :wink:

[vvizard]

For myself I don't think I'll ever go over the 1GB card I have now. Way too much editing & you can lose way to many pics if you damage the card. So far I enjoy the 512mb more than the rest.

Sometime around 1900, a great physician (which I can't recall the name of), said something similiar to this:

"I now think we have pretty much discovered everything worth discovering. What remains now, is to get instruments so precise, that we can measure what we already know, with five digits after the decimal."

And some years later a guy named Einstein pretty much turned all they knew upwards down ;)

Some years later, a guy named Gates, said something like: "640KB ought to be enough for everybody

And some more years later, the same f*cker makes OS's which won't run on anything below 256MB of RAM ;)

And then again, even more years later, a guy named "Vegas Poboy" tells he won't go over 1GB cards in his digicam.. You stick to that, and we'll see who laughs the most in 2010 ;)

[theflyingkiwi]

You are right, I have seen that most of my shots are not that good or even thought about. When I have time to take a shot why hurry. I also don't check the photos when I am on the field.

If I want 300 photos, I wont most of them to be good photos. I went to a car show and had taken 300+ photos, and I would say that less than 50% are the ones that I like. some where out of foces. that is when I should have been taking my time.

well at least I don't have to pay for the development. :wink: well this easter I am going to War Birds of Wanaka, so there I am going to take my time. :)

[Osmium]

I remember when there were no hard drives and 64K RAM seemed endless. Those killer 1.x Hz CPUs.

I remember blowing an 8Kb core memory card that cost $10,000 to replace.... And I remember writing software that needed to squeeze into memory pages that were 4Kwords (12 bit words) long.

Gees, I must really be getting old!


I fill a 2Gb Lexar in about 45 mins. That's averaging one shot every 16 seconds or so. And that's quite slow and measured for a stage performance. 2Gb is just right for me - 4Gb may be too much, anything less is not enough.

[cloudless]

Some years later, a guy named Gates, said something like: "640KB ought to be enough for everybody


That's an urban legend.
http://www.urbanlegends.com/celebrities/bill.gates/gates_memory.html

[CyberDyneSystems]

He didn't need to say it,. he just has his name attacj=hed to the OS archetiecture that that has the limitation.. the "quote" is merely a way of pointing out the lack of forsite....


I have a few 1 gig cards.. and you can bet your life I want larger ones.. but I will wait till they are affordable.

Currently a 1 GB card of standard speed should cost no more than $200.00.. the faster cards up to almost $300.00


As soon as there is a 2gig card for the same price as a 1gig costd now,. your dman straight I will own 2gig cards.. and so on and son on :)

And in fact IF the Muvo actually ever becomes avaiable to actually own,. (as opposed to just ordering it online and waiting several months for it to be in stock) I may actually order one ... again (finally canceled my order after three months without it shipping)

[Cadwell]

At 8.5fps in 40 shot bursts of 8.2MP RAW files 1D Mark II owners will be buying these puppies by the hatfull :lol:

[cloudless]

He didn't need to say it,. he just has his name attacj=hed to the OS archetiecture that that has the limitation.. the "quote" is merely a way of pointing out the lack of forsite....


It was not about "lack of foresight". DOS was an effective operating system at that time that fits on a single floppy disk. It was not made to be scalable, but it was cheap and runs on cheap PC. Windows 3.1/95/98 were made to be backward compatible so you wouldn't need to buy a new PC to run it. The fully 32-bit Windows NT was designed for future PC with security and scalability.

What I want to say is, the "640k is enough" quote is completely incorrect.

[Cadwell]

It was not about "lack of foresight". DOS was an effective operating system at that time that fits on a single floppy disk. It was not made to be scalable, but it was cheap and runs on cheap PC. Windows 3.1/95/98 were made to be backward compatible so you wouldn't need to buy a new PC to run it. The fully 32-bit Windows NT was designed for future PC with security and scalability.

What I want to say is, the "640k is enough" quote is completely incorrect.


If anyone can be justifiably accused of lack of foresight in the original DOS/PC design it is IBM. Which moron working for them decided to place the I/O interface address space between 640K and 1MB? Why didn't they do the sensible thing like so many other manufacturers and put it at the start of the address space? Programmers have been working their way round this nasty little hole in the middle of the PC's memory address space for years! There came a time after RAM got cheap enough when it was easier just to write off the the whole lower 1MB and work from there on up.


:oops: Sorry, I came over all irritated programmer there. I haven't done that for years. Not since everything became all visual whatever and programming became too easy ;) :lol:

[pradeep1]

Remeber those days when a 540 MB hard drive was considered huge and expensive?

Man, I remember the days when having a hard drive itself was something. My first harddrive was 10 Megabytes. I went wild on my second purchase and upgraded to a whopping 120 megabytes. For the Summer of 1990, I was the coolest kid amongst my nerd circle.

[KennyG]

Sorry, I came over all irritated programmer there. I haven't done that for years. Not since everything became all visual whatever and programming became too easy ;) :lol:

I used to write assembler for the TRS80 and its clones, (yes, there were clones even in those days) and my first job was to take apart the BIOS. When I was asked to do some work for a British made 'clone', what did I find, a ripped off Tandy BIOS. Piracy was rife pre IBM PC.

Now I have more processors and memory (2 x Xeon and 4gb) in my desktop than I used to have in two large DEC mainframes that ran a two billion dollar company. All this just to batch process RAW files quicker. Well, I did shoot over 1,000 RAW images on Sunday, so I suppose needs must as they say.