On 13 Sep 2004 at 16:14, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > So, assuming one doesn't > have an investment in CF cards, what's the downside to using the SD cards? Do > the little P&S Pentax digis used the SD cards? If so, makes perfect sense, up > to a point, for Pentax to continue using them in the istDS.
Absolute capacity and cost at the moment. SD cards max out at 1GB at a higher cost than their CF equivalent and the cheaper Micro-drive solutions in CF will get you 4GB of storage for about the same price. For someone who already owns many GB of CF storage it's quite a turn off but starting fresh I guess it would be OK. However if you do look at higher end models with a view to moving up in the future you'll quickly see that SD isn't the favoured storage media. WRT utility a 1GB card stores only around 70 RAW files from the *ist D, I wouldn't want to be shooting RAW with less than 2GB per card. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
