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2TB CF cards with 500MBps transfer speed
James Broome, Photographer
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 10:55 AM on 11.30.10 |
| ->> Let's see. If I can fit 225 Raw images from my 5D on to a single 4Gb card that means that soon I'll be able to lose over 100,000 image files with only one small CF card screw up! |
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Brad Camp, Photographer
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Bainbridge Island | wa | USA | Posted: 11:03 AM on 11.30.10 |
| ->> Ditto on Jim's--Folks seen me using my 4, 8 and sometimes 2gig cards and are they like WTH with it and their 32GB cards. I reckon back to the darkroom days--you lose a can, and you are only risking maybe 4 rolls of film. Lose a card, and maybe you lose 100-300 images... It works for me. Funny though, I always get a nod of 'aha' after explaining the 'risk' of shooting all onto a single card. :0 |
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John Cheng, Photographer
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New Milford | CT | USA | Posted: 11:12 AM on 11.30.10 |
| ->> With the 2TB+ capacity and its small footprint, I'd use it as an archiving solution, if the $/GB is low enough. |
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Robert Longhitano, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 11:49 AM on 11.30.10 |
| ->> Good for them now the 4GB and 8GB cards I use will be cheaper. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 12:10 PM on 11.30.10 |
->> phew! Finally I can shoot a LL game without having to change cards....... Unless its a championship then I might need to overflow onto an 8gb.......
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 12:13 PM on 11.30.10 |
->> All good points about putting too many eggs in one basket ... but I am glad they are looking to the future ... with the advent of DSLR video capture ... and multiple card slots ... 2TB capacity and a much higher transfer rate may not be such a crazy idea.
A decade back, when I was using 64 and 96 MB (that's right Mega Bytes) CF cards and shooting jpegs on the original Nikon D1, I never dreamed I would be using multiple 8GB and 16GB cards today on an event ...
Depending upon what future cameras bring to the table capability wise, this may not be so far-fetched or questionable to use larger storage capacity ... we'll have to wait and see how this plays out before we can make a final judgement. |
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Stew Milne, Photographer
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Providence | RI | USA | Posted: 12:56 PM on 11.30.10 |
| ->> John, I like your thinking on that. You could have a 20 TB stack of these on your desk that would take up less space than a pencil holder. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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| | | Posted: 3:39 PM on 11.30.10 |
| ->> So what do I do with the 4mb (yes megabyte) CF card that came with my Nikon CoolPix 950? |
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Dave Prelosky, Photographer
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Lower Burrell | Pa | US | Posted: 3:51 PM on 11.30.10 |
| ->> Fish, there used to be an outfit I saw a display for at the airport that would embed objects in an acrylic cube. Sounds like a paperweight for the ages... |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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| | | Posted: 4:11 PM on 11.30.10 |
->> Prelo
The CoolPix 950 or the 4mb CF card? :0) |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 4:15 PM on 11.30.10 |
->> If you're shooting enough at an event to fill a 2TB card I would suggest you might need to give another occupation consideration. Either that or you will most probably be killed by the first editor to look at your take.....I can hear it now "WTF do you mean you shot 23,467 photos at that basketball game? and that was just the FIRST HALF!!!!!!"
bahahahahahahahaha 8) |
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Dave Prelosky, Photographer
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Lower Burrell | Pa | US | Posted: 4:43 PM on 11.30.10 |
| ->> Depends. Does the camera still light up? |
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John Korduner, Photographer
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Baton Rouge | LA | United States | Posted: 1:14 PM on 12.02.10 |
->> While it's an astounding amount of storage, it doesn't seem unbelievably illogical, just an ambitious application of Moore's law.
We're already at a point where one picture is 30+ mb, so 50-100 megs/pic seems likely within 2 years.
A professor once made a statement I found truly profound...NASA made it to the moon and back with the memory equivalent to a modern digital wrist watch, which I find harder to accept than a 2TB memory card. |
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Mike Burley, Photographer
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Dubuque | IA | USA | Posted: 1:41 PM on 12.02.10 |
| ->> Not too long ago we all gasped at the news of the 1GB card... "Can you imagine if you lost 1GB of images?!!", we all replied. Camera files get bigger.. so does data storage. |
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Bruce Twitchell, Photographer
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 5:13 PM on 12.02.10 |
->> They're thinking video, gang, not 100 MP still images...theoretically this new standard offers 5 times the speed of the UHS-I SD specification that is just coming into use in cameras like the D7000.
But vaporware for now...or technically, a "vapor standard" that hasn't even been approved so the vaporware rollout can begin. :-) |
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