On Aug 22, 2006, at 3:18 AM, David Savage wrote: > Not if you'd bought $500+ (a 1GB & a 2GB in my case) worth of CF cards > you wouldn't.
David -- are those cards fast compared to what's out there currently, or would putting them into your new camera put you at a significant write speed disadvantage? Considering when you bought them, I'm going to have to guess that they're very slow compared to what's out there now in SD. So, to save $100 (the total cost of a fast 1GB card and a fast 2GB SD card if you don't shop around for the best price and get screwed on shipping) you would cripple your camera's write speed, effectively reducing the number of frames you could shoot in a row and how quickly you recover after shooting a burst. Why would you do that? Would you buy a $1200 film camera and insist on only putting Gold Max in it? > You have to remember Shel, when most people bought there *istD flash > memory wasn't as cheap as it is now. If it had been, I would consider > it disposable. > > For a camera maker know for backwards compatibility, IMO they should > have put in a dual memory card slot. Bad for two reasons: 1) makes the camera bigger 2) cheap users will constantly complain on the internet about how slow their very expensive new camera is. -Aaron -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
