New High Capacity Compact Flash Card!

Saw this in the lastest issue of DPP:

Pretec 80x 12 GB Compact Flash card

The largest capacity in the world.

Get more info at www.pretec.com

The price?

A mere $9,999.99

*shakes head*

Why...why...

I saw that yesterday in Digital Photo Pro.
Regards,
Scott

............mine is on the way!!...........

WOOHHOOO!!

Ro1

Now where did i put that darn CF card again?

I have a feeling that would be much more colorful with this card.

HAHAHA well put!

Damn.. Mine is ONLY 4 GB!


(and it takes 28 minutes to transfer to the PC via USB2!!!! )

My feelings exactly. For $10,000 you could buy quite a few 1GB 80x flash cards. Why in the world would one spend that much on one card? Imagine dropping or misplacing that!

Does today's d-camera support this card? Remember, our MarkII only support up to 2GB.

I wonder why something like that is really for sale. Who would ever want to buy a 12 GB card for $10,000 when 12 separate 1 GB cards cost a fraction of that?

It's far too expensive for any amateur and even for pro sports photographers I think the price is far too high for the advantages it offers (who wants to pay 4 or 5 times the price so that you have to change memory cards less often?).

I can imagine that a company makes CF cards like that to show off how advanced they are with the technology, but I don't think they're going to sell a lot of those cards.

...i suppose one could go on holidays and not have to worry about transfering to one of those digital wallets etc.

But then again...if you bought more sensible 1Gig cards you could afford a holliday that last's twice as long

When we get to the point where Prosumer Cameras are 25 Megapixels these will become necessary for us. For now I think we can live without it.

Ovi

I very much doubt that cameras will go that high in resolution,they've just about leveled out now.
No point in making a camera that needs lenses better than most current L lenses

It's very possible that they weren't created for the digital SLR photographer at all. It could have been created for a computer application where a large amount of disk storage is required or maybe for video work, or audio. More than likely it was developed for the government for some application that they can't talk about.

And there are a lot of cases where the technology for something was created first but it didn't have a market. And it set on the self until the market caught up with it. The micro-drives were that way. They were actually developed and made years before we saw them used in digital cameras. It was sometime in the early 90's I believe that I read an article about a disk drive created in Isreal that was smaller than a match book that had a lot of potential uses but nothing specific at that time. And as they waited for a market, they improved them and made them smaller with more capacity.

I suspect by the time there is a market for this CF card that it will probably be twice the capacity and half the price... or even less.

So those that are going to rush out and get one, hold off for a few months.

Mike

DS wrote:
Does today's d-camera support this card? Remember, our MarkII only support up to 2GB.

I think you might find it is a little more than 2Gb in the MkII