Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]SD cards make a lot more sense in cameras. You don't have any nasty pins to bend which can be an interesting experience if you do it. Smaller size so you can carry more. I don't have a problem with the smaller MB capacity as three cards is more secure than one that goes bad. But then I haven't bent any pins yet on my 8GB CF in a camera so maybe just paranoia. On 3/17/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > On 3/17/07 1:30 PM, "grduprey@mchsi.com" <grduprey@mchsi.com> typed: > > > I don't know how cramped the M8 is for space, but that may have been a > reason > > for using the SD cards, but since the DMR uses them also, they probably > decide > > to use it for that reason. Either way I have no problem with the SD > cards. > > My Nikon D200 uses the CF cards, but my wifes Nikon Coolpix uses the SD > cards. > > Go figure...even with an camera brand they change. > > > > Gene > > > > > I believe its not a BRAND thing but a MARKET thing. > And for the DMR digital back for the R series having the card be an SD > card > is just plain odd. SD stands for MINICAM. > Like putting those little wheels all the cars have now on your new > MASERATI. > > I'm thinking an R8 or R9 with DMR weights more Or close as a Hasselblad > HC3 > that's just my guess. > http://www.hasselblad.com/products/h-system.aspx > > You'd find SD's in the top all in one gadget cameras and cheap DSLRs > marketed for beginners but not the top line or even mid line stuff at all. > > I think its an image thing. Not the photographic image of course no one > cares about that but the photographers image of does his Tilley hat match > his leatherette covering on his gear; or high heels. > > SD goes along usually with the dreaded heartbreak known to the afflicted > as > SMALL SENSOR SIZE > SSS > 4/3s or smaller. Or super cheap plastic starter DSLRs. > > I think the Leica marketing people should have gone in there and kicked > ass > and gotten them to use a regular big boy CF card. > What are marketing people FOR anyway?! They design cameras that's what! > I guess since they figured they were not going to go with 24x36 frame then > its anything goes with this digital junk. > > But I think its money we don't know about. Marketing another thing we have > to buy. Burgeoning technology. Those CF cards don't all break real fast, > most of them just work and work. Are not disposable enough. So we just > have > to make them set themselves up with multiple Evolving formats. > MEF > > CF standing for > > Cash Flow > Corn Flakes > Carbon Fiber > Complement Fixation > Carrier Frequency (ask Kenneth) > Collaborative Filtering > Childfree > Charcoal Filter > Cadillac Fairview > Hundred Feet > Cahiers Francais > Coin First Payphone > Cluster Foulup (polite form; military slang) > > And now that I'm a roll here > SD standing for > > Standard Deviation > Scooby-Doo > Same Difference > social drinker > Senior Discount > Self-Destruct > Software Documentation > Snoop Dogg (who gets called Scooby a lot ask him) > Sweet Dreams > Snow Day > Safe Driver > Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins album) > Sample Duplicate > Significantly Different > > These are all good. > > But Significantly Different being the opposite of Same Difference so you > have to be careful of context in your prescribed field of reference. > These are not "words of art" folks. > > So do you want a Cluster Foulup (polite form) Card for your big boy pro > camera? > or Self-Destruct card for your Minicam? > I'm being negative. > > I think but the DMR and the M8 are for sure big boy (or girl) cameras. > And deserve BB or BG batteries and Cards and other decisive accessories. > > DMR of course standing for > > Deuteron Magnetic Resonance > Distributed Mesh Restoration > Desktop Maintenance Required > Dual Modular Redundancy (another one for Kenneth) > > None of these are good. > > BB Rabiner > 8A/109s > New York, NY > > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com