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64 gig and 666 times. Hmm just realised, mark of the beast lol, but getting back to it. My first PC was a 486 with an 840 meg hard drive and as I was about to walk out of the store, the guy who sold it to me grabbed it back and said to pick it up tomorrow, " we are expecting the new quad speed cd roms in tonight! We will replace the 2 x's with the new super fast optical drive."

Now this was cutting edge stuff back then and I remember friends who had 386 and 286 machines came around to watch me open the box and boot it up. Office 95 was on 3.5 inch floppy discs, about 20 of them, loaded one after the other.

I am thinking the latest and greatest D3x will go the same way, plenty of wow factor now but lets see in 4 years or even 2 years what the manufacturers have up their sleeves for us.
One thing for sure, I am enjoying the ride.
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I remember paying $440 for a 1GB Sandisk ULTRA. Now you can get em for what?

Hmmmm. Oh well. Lenses hold their value even if everything else doesn't. And the prices I got mine for it will be a while before I do lose value. All fun and games though isn't it.

Technology is great.

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Few days ago I found two ancient CF's - 8 and 32MB capacity:



Now 8MB is too small for some full-size jpg directly from the camera.
Daves602 said:
64 gig and 666 times. Hmm just realised, mark of the beast lol, but
getting back to it. My first PC was a 486 with an 840 meg hard drive
and as I was about to walk out of the store, the guy who sold it to
me grabbed it back and said to pick it up tomorrow, " we are
expecting the new quad speed cd roms in tonight! We will replace the
2 x's with the new super fast optical drive."
Now this was cutting edge stuff back then and I remember friends who
had 386 and 286 machines came around to watch me open the box and
boot it up. Office 95 was on 3.5 inch floppy discs, about 20 of them,
loaded one after the other.
I am thinking the latest and greatest D3x will go the same way,
plenty of wow factor now but lets see in 4 years or even 2 years what
the manufacturers have up their sleeves for us.
One thing for sure, I am enjoying the ride.
--
Warm regards, Dave.
Australian NPS member
http://www.dksphotography.smugmug.com

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Rumpis :o)
http://foto.pudele.com/ - Low intensity blog about
photography, Nikon and some other stuff interesting to
me. Just for fun. In Latvian.
 
We aren't investing for retirement. Consumer electronics are effectively disposable tools we use and discard.

I tried to give my old PC to charity. None would even take it. Newer ones were much faster and they didn't cost very much.

Cheers,
JB
Daves602 said:
64 gig and 666 times. Hmm just realised, mark of the beast lol, but
getting back to it. My first PC was a 486 with an 840 meg hard drive
and as I was about to walk out of the store, the guy who sold it to
me grabbed it back and said to pick it up tomorrow, " we are
expecting the new quad speed cd roms in tonight! We will replace the
2 x's with the new super fast optical drive."
Now this was cutting edge stuff back then and I remember friends who
had 386 and 286 machines came around to watch me open the box and
boot it up. Office 95 was on 3.5 inch floppy discs, about 20 of them,
loaded one after the other.
I am thinking the latest and greatest D3x will go the same way,
plenty of wow factor now but lets see in 4 years or even 2 years what
the manufacturers have up their sleeves for us.
One thing for sure, I am enjoying the ride.
--
Warm regards, Dave.
Australian NPS member
http://www.dksphotography.smugmug.com

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haha! Made me remember when i was younger, not so long ago, when teachers would ask who had internet and only 5 or 6 hands would rise out of a class of 30... We had internet from our very first computer, a BlAzInG fAsT 100Mhz Pentium!! The really huge games came in a set of 5 floppies!

And also when i purchased memory for my first ever camera, a Kodak P&S. The sales guy asked me what resolution, i said 5MP and he said "Whewww! You're gonna need at least 256MB!"

And i'm only 22... what will it be like when ill be 80? Will i have a 16TB CF in my 256MP D####Xs? Oh hell no, whenever i click the shutter release the file will be saved to my 64 exabyte wrist implant as well as transfered to my home computer back in Montreal via the interplanetary satellite grid as i am making my way down Olympus Mons to the 5 star Martian resort.
 
256MB was huge capacity. Recently I found few much smaller CF's:


maluminas said:
haha! Made me remember when i was younger, not so long ago, when
teachers would ask who had internet and only 5 or 6 hands would rise
out of a class of 30... We had internet from our very first computer,
a BlAzInG fAsT 100Mhz Pentium!! The really huge games came in a set
of 5 floppies!

And also when i purchased memory for my first ever camera, a Kodak
P&S. The sales guy asked me what resolution, i said 5MP and he said
"Whewww! You're gonna need at least 256MB!"

And i'm only 22... what will it be like when ill be 80? Will i have a
16TB CF in my 256MP D####Xs? Oh hell no, whenever i click the shutter
release the file will be saved to my 64 exabyte wrist implant as well
as transfered to my home computer back in Montreal via the
interplanetary satellite grid as i am making my way down Olympus Mons
to the 5 star Martian resort.
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Rumpis :o)
http://foto.pudele.com/ - Low intensity blog about
photography, Nikon and some other stuff interesting to
me. Just for fun. In Latvian.
 
jb above says "We aren't investing for retirement"
Hmm, actually might be better investment, my 401K is now a 201K!!
cary
 
while the next speed step might cut it, storage capacity wise the next wow! will be at 666 GB as far as I'm concerned.
SDXD or anything.
IF commercialized within the nxt half year that is.

Memory technology is advancing too slow in terms of raw storage.

At this pace, one day they will find my body entangled and chocked by all those usb and power supply cables at the sinister flashin blue led light of of china made 500GB / 1TB HD boxes

--
Vetsmelter
 
I could fill 500gig drives constantly if I didn't constrain myself shooting.

If I can every get a RAID 5 rack settup inline where I can just keep adding, I'll be set. Problem is getting started.

If you are a pro who makes a living on such things, the initial cost of several K to setup of a good indefinitely expandable server for storage is a no brainer, for home users, it's hard to find anything that is a good clean setup and not to expensive. Most DYI stuff is just junk.

I would guess there is a great number of photographers here and all over who have several TB rack setups, and many of them are plotting how to manage 10-20TB of stuff.

With 24MP cameras now, and 40MP DSLRs probably 2-3 years away, people will be trying to work with how to take 10-20 shots and fill a gig. Medium format users are their now, but they don't have rapid fire fingers.
 
Between my two editing systems I have 12TB of storage... or is it 14TB - getting crazy, costs nothing really who cares.
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WPPI, PPA, NPS
 
It's funny you mentioned this. Really? Those 1GB CF ultras were $440? Wow. I can't remember even seeing a memory card (CF, SD, MS, PRO duo, MMC, anything!) go for more than $100. That said, I dont have a CF greater than 8 GB, so i don't really know how much the higher ends are. =) I am a fan of the saying " the more cards with less memory, the safer" =)

anyway, just this weekend, I ran out of memory and had to buy my friend's "old spare card." This turned out to be a 1GB scandisk Ultra. He pretty much "gave" it to me, I bought him a Venti coffee @starbucks. SO, pretty much $5 bucks. haha.

Lol.

-Doni
Rehab45 said:
I remember paying $440 for a 1GB Sandisk ULTRA. Now you can get em
for what?

Hmmmm. Oh well. Lenses hold their value even if everything else
doesn't. And the prices I got mine for it will be a while before I
do lose value. All fun and games though isn't it.

Technology is great.

--
For some other images of mine visit here:

http://www.pbase.com/rehab45

Aspire to inspire before you expire!!!
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maluminas said:
lol!

Are you willing to drop ~$500 to save your life? ;)
http://www.drobo.com/

I'll soon have to buy a new HDD, when i built this computer 1 year
ago i couldn't imagine i could fill my 500GB drive, but i did...
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Yes, good ol' expandable Drobo might save the day,

but when think about storage memory evolution going too slow, I'm wishing I we could soon spend that kind of money to a single memory card that can contain a digital life entirely.

One in my wallet or smart phone (encrypted of course) and one or two backups stored at different locations.

A raid array of 12 TB is a nice spacey and speedy working environment, but at the cost it's still filled too easily.

I don't trust any HD based storage medium wired to the electricity net either, so as it is today, I have every external drive double.
Stil Relatively Cheap, but too limited and not convenient..

As soon even hairdryers will start to expose their HD Video capabilities (with autofocus ;) ) the raw storage capacity offered by todays reasonable end user systems are not yet up to par.

CF or SD format with capacities of 100 TB, ok that 'sounds more like it. :p

(my '88, 386 in had already 8MB / 120MB vs classmates 1MB / 20MB, eh eh -> 2MB smartdrv cache)

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Vetsmelter
 
I had owned for around 27 years and nearly got what I had paid for them.

No, figure in the rate of inflation for last 27 years (close to 1/3 value now) and you got 1/3 of what you paid for them. If you now get 1/2 of what you paid for them (27 years ago) then your real dollars recovered is 1/6 of what you paid.
cary
 
I enjoy the progress too. The only downside is having to watch your shiny new state of the art (whatever) slowly turn into something ho-hum.
 
I have a Kodak 4MB card sitting around somewhere, or perhaps I finally decided it belonged in the bin.

I think it was from my Kodak DC120 but remembering that had a Serial Interface for picture transfer maybe the card came from a later camera.
 
Anybody else remember slide rules or log tables? Perhaps I'm the oldest person ever..

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Bob

Perth, Western Australia
 
But do you still have them? I have. My slide rule is still in perfect working condition. I still have my treasured HP-35 from college days too.
Rumpis said:
K10D said:
Anybody else remember slide rules or log tables? Perhaps I'm the
oldest person ever..

--
Bob

Perth, Western Australia
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Rumpis :o)
http://foto.pudele.com/ - Low intensity blog about
photography, Nikon and some other stuff interesting to
me. Just for fun. In Latvian.
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Brian
Fine Art Print sales of the Isle of Skye at:
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