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To: rll who wrote (6699)	1/24/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Rll - OK, so let's say you've paid $350 for a 96MB flash card. You've only spent about a hundred bucks more than the Clik! solution would have cost. And yes, you can now take up to 96 megapixel pictures without having to stop to offload to the Clik! drive. But let's say that you're on vacation. You are through taking pictures until you get home so that you can download to your computer. Unless you've brought the computer along. And let's not forget that cameras will become available with Clik! drives built in. Then you won't have to stop taking pictures to offload. You'll just pop in another $10 Clik! disk and keep snapping away. For $100 bucks, you could have enough space for all the pictures you'd want to take over an average vacation. - Allen

To: rll who wrote (6699)	1/24/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: Philip J. Davis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

rll, First, there aren't any digital cameras out there right now, that I know of, that are compatible with a 96MB flash card. Do you know of any? Second, megapixel images don't necessarily have to be >1MB. My Olympus D400Z digicam takes 1280x960 images in low compression that average about 400k in size. Megapixel refers not to the size of an image, but to its resolution. In this case, I can fit 18 megapixel images on one 8MB flash card before I have to offload onto Clik! This translates into 90 megapixel images per Clik! disk. In any case, it is much more convenient to offload pictures onto a Clik! disk than having to lug around a laptop or go all the way home to offload your pictures. Imagine how long it would take to offload pictures from a digicam onto a laptop. Assuming your estimate of 3-5 minutes for offloading pictures from a flash card with a Clik! drive, how long would it take with a laptop? >>you also don't want to forget to label those disks so you don't overwrite them<< With Clik!, this isn't possible. Once completely full, you can't write to a Clik! disk with the flash card reader until you get home and transfer the images from Clik! to your laptop or desktop PC. >>Also, you have to store the clik! drive and disks somewhere until you need to use them.<< Same with regular film. >>the external clik! does not have the density or cost advantages necessary to be a success in the portable electronics applications.<< Here...let me explain: 40MB Clik! disk - $10 96MB flash card - >$300 >>It will be interesting (to say the least) to see a camera with an internal drive.<< They are already out there. Sony makes the very popular disk-based digital camera called Mavica. And, oh yea...it's got moving parts. Lipo