- SD are generally less likely to have difficulties from insertion due to the simpler connection interface, thus less customer problems and lower warranty/support costs.
- SD card slots take up less space in the body and allow a more compact design.
CF is where the current high end cameras are because it was the first available media storage adopted, and people generally want to keep with what they already have. Pentax made a brave move going to SD on the *ist DS, and I think there's more upside to SD adoption in the future. The only downsides, really, is that SD is currently only available to 2G sizing and microdrives only fit the CF form factor. But I much prefer the smaller, flash memory only form factor ... microdrives are more troublesome and consume a lot more power.
I feel that Pentax will stick with SD, but what they actually do is an unknown. I have plenty of both CF and SD media, however; it would simply be more convenient to have just one media format.
Godfrey
On Mar 9, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Why do you think that will happen? Seems that CF is where the high end
cameras are, and, at least according to most list members here, CF appears
to be what they want.
Shel
[Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
I'll need another body soon: it will be either another DS or a uprated D with an SD card rather than CF.
