4Gb CF Card Announced

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Posted by Hemos on Monday August 4, 2003 @03:17AM from the bigger-bigger-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Lexar has today announced that it now shipping a 4 GB 40x Compact Flash card. The card's claim to fame is the ability to store 600 RAW images taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera. This card also features Lexar's WA (Write Acceleration) technology which can improve performance further with WA enabled cameras. Because this card is larger than 2 GB, you will need a camera which is FAT32 compliant. This card is available now at the heady price of $1,499 ($0.37/MB). It looks like Lexar has managed to be faster then Hitachi (Former IBM storage division) with their 4Gb Microdrive."

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Re:4Gb or 4GB by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-04 03:24 · Score: 0, Funny

This is slashdot, don't concern us with small details like facts.
Re:Al though by Ominous+Coward · 2003-08-04 03:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Then don't loose the card. Besides, even if you open its cage, a card's not going to go very far. It's not nearly the same as loosing dogs, lions, or some other animal.

Wait, you meant "lose", didn't you?

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Re:So fucking what by demastri · 2003-08-04 03:52 · Score: 5, Funny

that $1500 could feed a lot of starving children.
Or better yet, store the pictures of up to 600 of them without having to change memory sticks!
Re:When The Price Drops by stratjakt · 2003-08-04 03:59 · Score: 5, Funny

And whats in the palm of your other hand?

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Re:Is the word "than" dying? by istartedi · 2003-08-04 04:24 · Score: 2, Funny

No. The prefix thanato is for words pertaining to death.

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Re:Just get 4 1GB Microdrives by pHDNgell · 2003-08-04 04:33 · Score: 3, Funny

That takes care of a single point of failure

Only if your camera has built-in RAID support and will take more than one of them at a time.

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600 RAW images? by Lxy · 2003-08-04 04:34 · Score: 3, Funny

What am I supposed to do with a number like that? I can't relate to it or determine how this would suit my needs. Put it into terms I recognize, like Libraries of Congress. How many Volkswagons fit in one of these? Is this still Slashdot?

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Goddam image censors... by kotj.mf · 2003-08-04 04:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Very wrong, at least for Canon cameras, Canon's raw format captures the data as it is coming off the image censor.
Too true. When my SO and I tried to take some nekkid pictures, all the naughty bits were blurred out.

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Just get 2857 1.44MB Floppies by timeOday · 2003-08-04 06:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Cheaper still and even more points of failure!
Re:40x? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-04 12:13 · Score: 1, Funny

If you tied 1 million and a half horses to the shuttle it'd only move as fast as the slowest horse can run with a weight on it's back equivalent to the weight of the shuttle divided by 1.5 million.

Shit man, didn't you watch Back to the Future Part III? That was important stuff.