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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Leica R-Digital Back
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:12:39 -0400

> >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?

You could very well be right, and I misread the spec...I'd say a microdrive
would be in order, as the damned thing is simply huge!

Austin

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