Craig:
You write: "in its raw form memory is exceedingly small. Since the camera provides protection, you could surface mount the chips and use less space than that required for the CF slot...As to the vacationer needing extra digital film, Kodak dealers around the world will soon offer a service to download images and deliver a CD-ROM while you wait..."
Okay. Bob & Betty are at the wedding of their only daughter, Katyana. Being irrationally exuberant, they take 128 high-resolution pictures of Katyana borrowing something blue, 2 hours before the actual nuptials are to begin. Sadly, the Yakomishi 5000 they bought for Christmas, with exceedingly small, imbedded memory (in its raw form, it plumps when cooked) has a ceiling of 6,435 gigabytes, just enough for 128 Hi-Res pics, and no more.
As Bob & Betty would like to record even more precious Katyana moments, all they have to do is....
Drive to the nearest Kodak dealer to download the images onto CD ROM while they wait? Or, pop in a fresh CF or six, which Bob has thoughtfully stored in his blue velvet blazer pocket?
When I got my first hard drive with (gasp) a 40-meg hard drive, I thought to myself, this is so silly, I'll NEVER use all of that...
A bunch of people made a bunch of money playing Iomega a couple years back because I was wrong. There's something, oh, say, infinite about removable storage. It has a certain appeal.
Just a thought.
- Don |
