Well, flash storage is getting bigger and cheaper all the time. A year
or two ago you had to have a MicroDrive if you were serious about
taking photos. That meant that for a gig of storage you had to install
a tiny hard drive in your camera, with all the moving parts that
entails. There was also the cost factor and the power consumption of
moving those internal parts. I read a couple of days ago that Sandisk
has 4 gig CF cards coming out now with a retail price of $1000. Of
course, Olympus claims that xD cards will be available in very large
capacities soon, too. If you think of this kind of flash memory as a
"buffer" of sorts, someplace that your data can reside while you're out
of range of your wireless base, then it seems like we're in good shape
even if hours go by between uploads. Unless, of course, the file size
of the new 4/3 system is just freakin' huge. ;-)
-Rob
On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 12:12 PM, tOM Trottier wrote:
A wireless network, with live transfer of pictures when taken, would
not
only eliminate the cable, but could eliminate the need for
mega-storage in
the camera, and free the photographer to move around without carrying a
laptop or hard drive. There could even be an alarm if the laptop or
camera
move out of a specified range.
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