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To: Ausdauer who wrote (3564)	7/29/1998 3:54:00 PM
From: AB	Respond to of 60323

Digital cameras show slow but steady growth. 207.240.177.145 Anthony

To: Ausdauer who wrote (3564)	7/29/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Rex Dwyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

SmartMedia ... not so smart? Not backward compatible?!?!?!? Hey look at this. Can someone verify this? Its the best news I have heard with regard to the Smart Media. :-) steves-digicams.com SmartMedia ... not so smart? This info was gathered off of rec.photo.digital today and confirms my fears about SmartMedia in general. For all of you out there that have been impatiently awaiting larger SmartMedia cards for your existing digicams - it's pretty much bad news as I had predicted well over a year ago. I had questioned the design of SmartMedia when I first saw it come on the market for the very reasons that have now been confirmed by Olympus themselves. I don't want my memory cards to be "brainless" blobs of flash memory. Give me a CompactFlash card with its own embedded controller and firmware. I don't want that stuff built into my digicam only to find out that it cannot be upgraded as larger capacity products become available. Imagine your Nikon 900 being stuck with nothing bigger than an 8MB CF card! I guess this pretty much solves the "Beta vs VHS" war in the compact memory world for digicams. Now you know why the vast majority of manufacturers opted for CompactFlash in most all of the new megapixel cameras this year -- sorry Toshiba, but we're not buying it anymore... From: Kenneth Hong <HongK@olympus.com> "The 16 meg SmartMedia cards (and larger) will not work on any Olympus digital camera other than the new D-340L. There have been architechural changes made within the SmartMedia that do not make them backwards compatible. Your [D-600L] camera cannot be modified to use SmartMedia cards larger than 8 meg. The MA-1U PC Card Adapter will also not work with 16 meg SmartMedia for the same reason. Kenneth Hong Digital Technical Support Olympus America Inc." Rex