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This just seems like overkill on SanDisk’s part

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Photography

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Don’t get me wrong: I shoot a lot of photos at times, and there have been occasions where 6.5 GB of memory (the rough sum total storage available on my various Compact Flash cards) has been…not quite enough. In fact, there have been two such times: my trip to Britain and my and Grace’s honeymoon in Greece.

The astute reader may note that in both cases, the problem had less to do with the fact that nearly 7 GB of memory was not enough for trips of some duration; the main issue was being thousands of miles from my computer, and thus from a place to which images could be downloaded.

Granted, more available memory would have mitigated the problem in both cases. Even so…the thought of a 64 GB Compact Flash card seems just a little bit silly to me, especially since CF is a somewhat dated technology that is losing more and more ground to SD with each generation of cameras…even amongst SLRs.

I guess there’s still enough of a market there that SanDisk sees value in pushing new product into it. And i should add that the new cards do boast impressive data transfer rates (a key consideration for RAW shooters like me). Even so, these cards will probably be little more than anachronisms in a couple of years.

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I started blogging back in 2004 -- in May, if the Wayback Machine is to be believed. Not that I remember the exact day. To be honest, I didn't take it that seriously then; it was a fun distraction, but nothing more. That all changed, I think, once the Danish cartoons were published, and the assault on the right to freedom of expression became very visible. With the recent issues in Canada concerning the "human rights" commissions, the gravity of the matter has only increased, and my interest in blogging has increased right along with it. I used to blog at a domain called Time Immortal, but it seemed to be the right time for a change -- there's been a lot of that in my life of late. Hence this blog: a fresh start, and proof positive that I won't shut up even if I get shut down once in a while.