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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (32412)	9/27/2000 7:34:57 PM
From: russet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

<<<8mm is a very bulky format for inclusion into a still camera. Even 4mm is pushing it. 8mm has made sense for analog video as a miniature form of video tape with similar recording technologies. I has been used for digital storage where it has capacities which I think now go up into the 20-40GB per tape, but as lovely as that capacity sounds, fitting even the tape inside a still camera, not to mention the transport, sounds like a poor combination to me. >>> Quite true, but the camera exists (don't know what its sales are), and probably has specialized uses. The masses will decide whether it is more universally accepted. A digital photographer needing to take a large number of pictures at high resolution rapidly, has few choices today. Having everything stored on tape is perhaps more convenient than using dozens of sticks of flash memory. Cameras for professionals are already bulky. High speed transport mechanisms back at the composing room will allow for easy viewing and manipulation of the pictures. It is a readily accepted medium and a lot of support exists for it. It is a reasonably safe storage medium that can take a lot of punishment. When flash sticks develop multi-GB capacities, these other methods may fall by the wayside. Any ideas how long that will take? It is interesting to see Sony supporting so many types of memory in their digital camera line. This time they are letting the market decide. Thanks for the feedback.