Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > 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 you do realize that all this is a ploy, a feint... they really are trying to convince us to keep using film. Steve - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html