Hard drive based cameras ever?

"""""" wrote:

80x speed-12gb compactflash card
http://www.pretec.com/product/SSD/CF...Cheetah80X.htm
Only $9,999
Pete

I think half the group just fainted dead away. Yikes!

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"""""" wrote:

80x speed-12gb compactflash card
http://www.pretec.com/product/SSD/CF...Cheetah80X.htm
Only $9,999
Pete

I think half the group just fainted dead away. Yikes!

--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'

(TS) writes:
Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
to ever be created?
I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
camcorder.
Why are people opposed to it?

Who's opposed to it?

The very early Kodak digital cameras used by news photographers had a
couple of PCMCIA slots that took plug-in hard drives. I think they were
a few hundred MB (not GB) each.

I know I've seen an ENG (electronic news gathering) camera, of the sort
that TV station remote trucks use, that used a hard disk for storage.

You can buy microdrives in the form of a CF Type II card and use them in
many digital cameras today.

However, hard drives are less robust than solid-state flash RAM chips,
and they cost a lot more per byte than magnetic tape. So far, they have
not taken over from these other forms because they're not uniformly
better.

Dave

I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a

I saw a site once explaining how to remove the drive from a creative labs mp3
player and plug it right into the card slot of a Nikon.

Can't find it now of course, but it proves it's possible. And much cheaper than
buying the drive on its own.

--
Chris Pollard


CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines
http://www.cginternet.net

I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a

I saw a site once explaining how to remove the drive from a creative labs mp3
player and plug it right into the card slot of a Nikon.

Can't find it now of course, but it proves it's possible. And much cheaper than
buying the drive on its own.

--
Chris Pollard


CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines
http://www.cginternet.net

Kibo informs me that Jer stated that:

"""""" wrote:

80x speed-12gb compactflash card
http://www.pretec.com/product/SSD/CF...Cheetah80X.htm
Only $9,999
Pete

I think half the group just fainted dead away. Yikes!

On the bright side, you can buy 2 of the 6GB version of the same card
for only $800 each.

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W
. | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because
\|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est
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Kibo informs me that Jer stated that:

"""""" wrote:

80x speed-12gb compactflash card
http://www.pretec.com/product/SSD/CF...Cheetah80X.htm
Only $9,999
Pete

I think half the group just fainted dead away. Yikes!

On the bright side, you can buy 2 of the 6GB version of the same card
for only $800 each.

--
W
. | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because
\|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est
---^----^---------------------------------------------------------------

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:05:35 +0800, Christopher Pollard
wrote:

Can't find it now of course,

http://tinyurl.com/3287l

This wasn't the one I saw, but it'll do.

--
Chris Pollard


CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines
http://www.cginternet.net

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:05:35 +0800, Christopher Pollard
wrote:

Can't find it now of course,

http://tinyurl.com/3287l

This wasn't the one I saw, but it'll do.

--
Chris Pollard


CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines
http://www.cginternet.net

Christopher Pollard writes:

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:05:35 +0800, Christopher Pollard
wrote:

Can't find it now of course,

http://tinyurl.com/3287l

This wasn't the one I saw, but it'll do.

Looks like they're busting their chops to get a 4 gig microdrive for around
$200. B&H sells the 4 gig Hitachi (brand your outfit features) microdrive for
$239.95.

Charlie Self
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity
has made them good." H. L. Mencken