Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html