Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Typically VR photographers need more contiguous storage than most people, since for any given scene you need to capture a string of shots. To date, the top end of CompactFlash storage has been around 1 GB. Put that together with the new full-frame sensor digital SLRs using 15MB per RAW format shot (or 41MB for an uncompressed TIFF), and you have a problem. A 1GB CF card can only hold 66 RAW format photos or 24 TIFFs from the Kodak DCS Pro 14n. 24 exposures is not enough for a cubic shot with a 20mm lens. Who wants to change cards in the middle of a shoot? So it is good news that the 1GB card barrier has been broken. It remains to be seen how many digicams can access 3GB, since many use the FAT16 file system which has a 2 GB limitation. Pretec announces 1.5, 2 and 3 GB CompactFlash cards. The 3 GB card will be priced at $2499 for sampling quality by year's end. 7:00:13 AM

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