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BobTrips said:
OK, NikCanFujOly Camera Company is releasing a Foveon chip, 12 meg
camera that simply blows medium format film away. Starts people
talking about the death of large format.

Under $1k.

Only comes with SM cards.

Going to buy one?
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Oh come on!! SM is perfectly adequate for the cameras that use it. No one can reasonably expect to see a 5+MP camera using SM, but there are still a lot of new 3MP point and shoot cameras yet to be designed/released by the likes of Fuji and Olympus that will run perfectly well on a max 128MB SM card.

12MP will not blow medium format away. It will probably give it a run for its money however. Trouble is, most of the REALLY good landscape photography I see is taken with 5 by 4 inch plate film cameras!! Seems to make 35mm and medium format look like....APS!
 
Hi Rob,

At first I didn't understand why you so misunderstood my post so I checked out your profile.... You're from the UK!

It's OK, I don't understand some of that British humor..... Especially Benny Hill.

You folks do speak funny English over there don't you?

;-)
Rob S said:
BobTrips said:
OK, NikCanFujOly Camera Company is releasing a Foveon chip, 12 meg
camera that simply blows medium format film away. Starts people
talking about the death of large format.

Under $1k.

Only comes with SM cards.

Going to buy one?
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Oh come on!! SM is perfectly adequate for the cameras that use it.
No one can reasonably expect to see a 5+MP camera using SM, but
there are still a lot of new 3MP point and shoot cameras yet to be
designed/released by the likes of Fuji and Olympus that will run
perfectly well on a max 128MB SM card.

12MP will not blow medium format away. It will probably give it a
run for its money however. Trouble is, most of the REALLY good
landscape photography I see is taken with 5 by 4 inch plate film
cameras!! Seems to make 35mm and medium format look like....APS!
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--
bob
http://www.pbase.com/bobtrips
pictures from Thailand, Myanmar(Burma), and Nepal
 
serpeant said:
Hi,

I love this forum and have been looking for advice on what camera
to get. Just as I decided the Fuji 601Z was the camera for me, I
hear that SMARTMEDIA will be phased out and XD media will be
brought in.

I am concerned that:

1. 128mb is the max for Smartmedia
2. The advantages in the new memory included faster writes to the
card (ie better movie mode), smaller (ie smaller cameras), larger
in size (I hear 128mb to 4 gig. Who needs a laptop on you holiday
with 4gig media?
3. I cant buy anymore Smartmedia when they are stopped and NO, I
dont have the money to stock up on them now!

What are your thoughts?
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Rob S said:
12MP will not blow medium format away. It will probably give it a
run for its money however.
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Medium format digital is already over 100MP. 12MP won't blow any of the bigger formats away.

--
Jesper
 
BobTrips said:
Hi Rob,

At first I didn't understand why you so misunderstood my post so I
checked out your profile.... You're from the UK!

It's OK, I don't understand some of that British humor.....
Especially Benny Hill.

You folks do speak funny English over there don't you?

;-)
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As far as I know, I didn't misunderstand your post. You were making an exaggerated humorous example of real posts in other XD/Smartmedia threads, and I added my 2 pence using your post as the other threads seem to have died.

Plenty of British people find it difficult to understand Benny Hill also (including me!). There is nothing funny about a long line of old fogies and scantily clad women chasing Mr Hill round a park show after show after show!!
Member said:
Rob S said:
BobTrips said:
OK, NikCanFujOly Camera Company is releasing a Foveon chip, 12 meg
camera that simply blows medium format film away. Starts people
talking about the death of large format.

Under $1k.

Only comes with SM cards.

Going to buy one?
Click to expand...
Oh come on!! SM is perfectly adequate for the cameras that use it.
No one can reasonably expect to see a 5+MP camera using SM, but
there are still a lot of new 3MP point and shoot cameras yet to be
designed/released by the likes of Fuji and Olympus that will run
perfectly well on a max 128MB SM card.
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You got to explain yourself!!!
J A K said:
serpeant said:
Hi,

I love this forum and have been looking for advice on what camera
to get. Just as I decided the Fuji 601Z was the camera for me, I
hear that SMARTMEDIA will be phased out and XD media will be
brought in.

I am concerned that:

1. 128mb is the max for Smartmedia
2. The advantages in the new memory included faster writes to the
card (ie better movie mode), smaller (ie smaller cameras), larger
in size (I hear 128mb to 4 gig. Who needs a laptop on you holiday
with 4gig media?
3. I cant buy anymore Smartmedia when they are stopped and NO, I
dont have the money to stock up on them now!

What are your thoughts?
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I just bought a 4.1 mp camera which solely uses SM, the oly d40z. I love this little camera and even though ram for my old pent 75 computer has been replaced several times over, I can still buy new ram for this old beast. You'll always be able to find SM cards somewhere. rumor has it samsung is coming out with a 256mb sm card this year.

jenn
serpeant said:
I understand what you say. There will hopefully be continued
support for SmartMedia. However, would you buy a digital camera now
that only supported SmartMedia?

Marc
6oh2 Seth said:
Agreed. My Fuji 602 uses both SM and CF, but all SM 128MB cards
are equally fast and sell for as little as $40 around here. With
the large installed base, there should be plenty of SM supply for a
few years. I would not shy away from a camera solely because of
that. After all, there are lots of happy Sony users out there and
noone else uses the Memory Stick cards. My 2 cents.
Seth
'Momma don't take my Kodachrome away'
http://www.pbase.com/seth
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--
JZ
 
I wouldn't have a year and a half ago so I definitely would not do so now. I have often recommended others who have asked me for advice to stay away from SM as it is pretty much dead technology. It would be okay if you were not planning on investing on a bunch of new cards and to have to completely upgrade in a few years.
--
Ken W.
http://www.quantumarts.com
http://www.mywhistler.com
 
ch2s said:
I have a friend that has SM cards and he says the contacts get
damaged very easily just from inserting and ejecting SM cards.
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Strange that never happened to me and I've been using SM for five years.
jp103276 said:
They
are also very slow.
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SM in general is faster than CF (not sure about CF II though). SM used also to be faster than SD/MMC, although I heard that the latest SD cards are very fast.
jp103276 said:
If you plan on using only 1 card then maybe SM would be ok since it
wouldn't get damaged from inserting and ejecting it, but I
recommend a camera with CF or MMC/SD cards since they are MUCH
faster and very solid
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SM cards are designed for easy insertion/removal (their name is "SSFDC" - solid state floppy disk), while CF cards are less suitable for frequent insertion/removal.
--
http://www.molon.de/Galleries.htm
Olympus 4040 online resource at http://www.molon.de/4040.html
 
Aloha,

I just bought an Olympus E-100RS that was refurbished. It uses both Smart Media and Compact Flash.

In one sense this topic is moot because it hasn't happened. So why waste time and energy on it?

I buy things because I Want to and I can afford it. If I Need it, then it will be bought. Being recently retired and not in the best of health, I could be dead next month or in ten years.

Life is tooo short, enjoy it while you're able to. Why worry about something that hasn't happened yet? Or may never happen?
 
serpeant said:
Hi,

I love this forum and have been looking for advice on what camera
to get. Just as I decided the Fuji 601Z was the camera for me, I
hear that SMARTMEDIA will be phased out and XD media will be
brought in.

I am concerned that:

1. 128mb is the max for Smartmedia
2. The advantages in the new memory included faster writes to the
card (ie better movie mode), smaller (ie smaller cameras), larger
in size (I hear 128mb to 4 gig. Who needs a laptop on you holiday
with 4gig media?
3. I cant buy anymore Smartmedia when they are stopped and NO, I
dont have the money to stock up on them now!

What are your thoughts?
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--
Remember 8 track stereo cartridges ?
Remember Betamax video tapes ?
Remember seven inch Vinyl singles ?

In a couple of years it could be ...

Remember smartmedia !

Geoff
Olympus C3030Z + E20
 
Ken W. said:
I wouldn't have a year and a half ago so I definitely would not do
so now. I have often recommended others who have asked me for
advice to stay away from SM as it is pretty much dead technology.
It would be okay if you were not planning on investing on a bunch
of new cards and to have to completely upgrade in a few years.
--
Ken W.
http://www.quantumarts.com
http://www.mywhistler.com
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So, for all the good things I hear about the Fuji s602z, you would recommend I stay away from it because it uses CF and SM?
 
You can get 128 mb cards at http://www.egghead.com for $27.50 shipping and all, the other day they were only $25 and I picked up another one... :o)

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=128MB+smartmedia
wje said:
However, my local Costco has nicely packaged 128 MB smart media
cards for $54.95 - or, about $15.00 less than most other places
like CompUSA or BestBuy or even your local photo retailer.
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MSGT JIMMIE BURTON (USAF RETIRED 1983)
It's so EZI with an UZI
Oly 2100UZ, B300, TCON14, A200, C-180, C-210
Fuji 2600 2.1 MP Pocket Camera
Epson 750Z 1.25 MP's Old Faithful
Private Pilot & RC Nut
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/thecameranutjwb/
http://www.hssea.org/news.html
http://www.onlinephotographers.com/
 
I've been using my dual CF/SM card reader for a little backup drive for about a year now. I keep my personal stuff in both of them?
G Drive is a 64mb compact flash card.
David Barkin said:
While all these little cards can actually be used as disk drives it
doesn't strike me as the optimum solution, but it can be done with
SM and cannot be done with CF cards.
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http://www.fototime.com/ {1F5B06DD-24AC-4CE3-A611-2E2A603D282B} picture.JPG
--
MSGT JIMMIE BURTON (USAF RETIRED 1983)
It's so EZI with an UZI
Oly 2100UZ, B300, TCON14, A200, C-180, C-210
Fuji 2600 2.1 MP Pocket Camera
Epson 750Z 1.25 MP's Old Faithful
Private Pilot & RC Nut
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/thecameranutjwb/
http://www.hssea.org/news.html
http://www.onlinephotographers.com/
 
I did it last week, but I have quite a few Smartmedia cards and devices that use them.
serpeant said:
Hi,

I love this forum and have been looking for advice on what camera
to get. Just as I decided the Fuji 601Z was the camera for me, I
hear that SMARTMEDIA will be phased out and XD media will be
brought in.

I am concerned that:

1. 128mb is the max for Smartmedia
2. The advantages in the new memory included faster writes to the
card (ie better movie mode), smaller (ie smaller cameras), larger
in size (I hear 128mb to 4 gig. Who needs a laptop on you holiday
with 4gig media?
3. I cant buy anymore Smartmedia when they are stopped and NO, I
dont have the money to stock up on them now!

What are your thoughts?
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