Amazing !!

[ChrisCairns]

Today I bought a 2 gig SD Ultra 2 memory card for my Canon 8 megapixel camera. From Costco for $34.95. Not because I needed one, but because I wanted one. I already have two 1 gig memory cards.

Here's the amazing part. The one gig card will hold 286 pictures at the largest and clearest settings. At the lowest and smallest settings it will hold 8852 pictures. Double that for the 2 gig card. So at the camera's best settings.....572 pictures. And at it's worst setting .... 17,704. (The camera won't actually display past 9999 though.)

All this from a card that's 1.25 inches by 1 inch..... .086 thousanths thick.

I LOVE TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY.

[Quiky One]

And to think I paid just over $100 a year and a half ago on the same memory card only in 512 MB..

Jason

[jpratt]

Originally Posted by Quiky One

And to think I paid just over $100 a year and a half ago on the same memory card only in 512 MB..

Jason

Just wait a year and that 2GB will be $49 and sold in a twin pack at Wally World.

[ChrisCairns]

Yep. If I remember correctly I paid $70 for my first 1 gig about a year ago.

If anyone owns any stock in a hard drive manufacturing company, sell now. In the near future I think moving parts in a computer will be obsolete considering the advances in memory chips.

[RUQWKNF]

Nanite and macro technology is on the way guys and gals.
If only the Japanese would hurry up and let us have the technology they have now. They always seem to keep the best stuff for at least 3-5 years before they let all us crazy Americans have it. Unless you're Uncle Sam that is. Unky Sammy gets all the group buy discounts, then turns right around and hides it all away in Black Projects.

All in the name of National Security.

Patrick

[GNTurbo6]

Have you seen MicroSD cards? Smaller than a chicklet and hold just as much as a SD card can.

[John Larkin]

This must by why iPods are the size they are.

[turbojimmy]

Originally Posted by GNTurbo6

Have you seen MicroSD cards? Smaller than a chicklet and hold just as much as a SD card can.

I have a 2.0GB MicroSD card in my phone. It's about half the size of my thumb nail. It's so small that it pops into a normal SD-sized shell so I can put it in a card reader. I hate taking the thing out because it's so tiny - I'm afraid I'm going to lose it.

I just got a new 2GB xD card (thanks, Olympus, for the proprietary standard) for my camera. It will hold around 350 pictures on the 'super high quality' setting. The problem is that with so much storage we never clean it off, and then upload hundreds at a time to Wal*Mart for printing (my wife insists on printing them - don't ask me why).

Jim