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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica R-Digital Back
From: Mike Durling <durling@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:19:53 -0400
References: <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJGEEEGPAB.darkroom@ix.netcom.com>

There are 1GB and 4GB SD cards in development.  Panasonic is developing 
arrays of SD cards for solid state video recording.  I can look up the 
link if you like.  It is on the panasonic site.

Mike D

Austin Franklin 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
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In reply to: Message from "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> (RE: [Leica] Re: Leica R-Digital Back)