Well, admittedly I haven't looked at xD card specs for quite awhile. It
appears as though they've caught up. The last time I looked seriously
they were about twice the cost, and half the speed and capacity. Just
now checking B&H I see that the cost is competitive for a 1GB card but
1GB is the max available. CF cards go up to 8GB. I obviuously don't
know what's happened to write speed.
As to size, I personally don't want anything smaller than a CF card even
if it makes the camera a little larger.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>
>>Then there are xD cards. What a silly development.
>>
>
> OK, I'll bite. Silly how? Clearly compact cameras were going to require
> smaller memory cards. CF cards are large in this context and the
> technology for small cards was ready. Sony's memory sticks were too big
> and not going anywhere in the market (although my new VAIO has a
> built-in slot for them.). So a couple of bigish players in the compact
> digicam market get together and design a small, simple card that can be
> made inexpensively. Yes, a quality 1gb xD is about the same price as a
> quality CF. My 1gb Oly xD card was $89.95 from B&H. At Costco a couple
> of days ago, a 1gb Sandisk Ultra II CF was the same price.
>
>
>>Trying to chase a commodity market with inferior technology.
>>
>
> OK, bite again. What's inferior about it? Other than Oly's odd format
> scheme to support panoramic shots, which isn't a hardware issue. I put
> it in the camera, take a lot of pics, download them and erase them from
> the card. What's not to like?
>
>
>>I haven't even bothered to
>>look at the specs of Oly P&S cameras because they use xD cards. Of
>>course, now I think all the other P&S cameras that had been using CF
>>cards have moved on to SD cards so I still can't use my CF cards.
>>
>
> Simple size obsolescence. It's all small cards for the small cameras.
>
>
>>Ah, well. The Stylue Epic still works.
>>
>>
>
> So does the S110, with its CF cards, but it won't do what the new one
> will, not by a long shot.
>
> Moose
>
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