Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Leica R-Digital Back
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:09:07 -0700

On 2003-06-25 darkroom@ix.netcom.com (Austin Franklin) thoughtfully
wrote: 

>> http://www.leica-camera.com/produkte/rsystem/digitalmodul/index.html
>
>Thanks for the link!  A couple of notes.  One, they don't plan on
having it
>in production until the END of next year, some 18 months away!  A LOT
is
>going to change between now and then.
>
>Second, is they claim it only uses SD cards, which don't hold
much...512MB
>max right now, and I'm not sure how extensible they are.  SD cards are
also
>rather slow...2MB/second for write speed.  For a 10M pixel image, at 24
>bits/pixel (3 colors x 8 bits/color)...that's 30M bytes or 15 seconds
for
>one raw image!
>
>Austin

But the image they showed seemed to imply 3GB of internal storage
available which implied, to me, a disk would be available?

adam
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