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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (21168)	11/13/2001 6:35:47 AM
From: Tumbleweed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Re The Canon S30 & Sandisk card.. Hi Art, yes the fast time is JPEG, but on the highest quality setting. I dont see the need for Raw images (for my use), since they are huge, and for my photography and printer combo wont give me any additional benefit,as well as requiring about 10x as many cards! I realise that Canon probably (!!) got a good deal on the card, but I am fairly sure that a lot of people will just go and buy the same brand again. So, since the make is printed on the card, there should be some more sales there. I looked at the S40, but the only difference is about 15% more pixels, which since I dont do a lot of cropping,and will very rarely print at bigger than 8 x 10 (and 7 x 5 usually) you wouldnt be able to see the difference. I'd prefer to spend the substantial difference in price (about $120) on cards, case, an extra battery, and so on. There is only one thing I dont like about the camera, it doesnt have a small lcd panel that shows basic info such as number of shots left, flash mode, etc, you have to use the main LCD for that (and thereby consume battery). Unfortunately there is no perfect camera, the S30 seemed to be the best mix of quality, size and features i could find for my use(its essentially a canon G2 in a compact body). Its not just a P&S, there is a lot of manual capability if you need it. What I find interesting now is looking at cards from a buyers viewpoint, there really is very little to distinguish between them, I think its all in the marketing. And prices vary hugely. As I already have some cards from my last camera I'm in no rush, but I will be buying a 128Mb card. That, along with my existing cards will give me about 200 shots capacity, which should be enough for a 2 week holiday. BTW, there is no speed difference noticeable between some old Lexar cards I have and the Sandisk, the camera is ready to shoot again in a second or two. So card speed isnt an issue for me, but reliability is. The IBM disks look tempting, since I could buy one and then forget about capacity, but I know that it will fail just before I download all those 2000 pics from my 6-week Fijian vacation judging the Miss WOrld competition(sorry, daydreaming again!) I plan to wait for the next semi upturn (which may be a year or there away) and then sell a substantial portion of my stock, I'm not going to sell now, I think its too cheap at the moment, but the value I once saw in Sandisk due to the IPR doesnt seem substantial any more. As we come out of the downturn then the semis will rise and so will sandisk, but there are always going to be low-price supplier like Integral and Mr Flash keeping on the pressure to be low priced. FWIW, the cheapest UK-sourced CF I can find is about $70 fora 128Mb card. That is for a brand name 'Integral' which I havent seen before. Sandisk is $84 and Fuji $$86. YOu can easily pay double or triple that buy buying in a high-street store, or a brand name like Kodak over the net. How does that compare with US prices, anyone know? Tw