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Re: [OM] xD out?

Subject: Re: [OM] xD out?
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:11:22 -0500
Is Fuji dropping it too?
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Piers Hemy wrote:
> But at least they each found a sucker to pony up the other half of the
> development costs, no?
> 
> Piers 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 27 January 2010 15:51
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] xD out?
> 
> Yes.  Both of them weren't too smart.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> 
> John Hermanson wrote:
>> Wasn't xD a Fuji/Olympus design collaboration?
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>> John Hermanson  |   CPS, Inc.
>> 21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
>> 631-424-2121  |  www.zuiko.com
>> Olympus OM Service since 1977
>> Gallery: www.zuiko.com/album/index.html
>>
>>
>> jgettis81@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> I noticed that the Fujji too has gone to SD cards in the cameras that 
>>> we are carrying where I work.  I just wish they had made the change 
>>> before they designed the E-30.  I wonder when the new models come out 
>>> what cards they will use. John
>>>
>>>
>>>> [Original Message]
>>>> From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date: 1/26/2010 5:20:15 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [OM] xD out?
>>>>
>>>> you said it!  I couldn't agree more.
>>>> ___________________________________
>>>> John Hermanson  |   CPS, Inc.
>>>> 21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
>>>> 631-424-2121  |  www.zuiko.com
>>>> Olympus OM Service since 1977
>>>> Gallery: www.zuiko.com/album/index.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>>> Video puts a big premium on speed and capacity which xD cards don't 
>>>>> have.  xD cards never made any sense from the day they were first 
>>>>> announced since (to save cost) the cards were made without built-in
>>> disc
>>>>> controllers as other cards have.  It was an extremely short sighted 
>>>>> decision technically.  Probably made by a bean counter.  It's long 
>>>>> past time that it die.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>>>
>>>>> John Hermanson wrote:
>>>>>> I've read that the new line of Olympus P&S digitals coming out in
>>> March
>>>>>> will use SD memory cards due to their ability to write HD faster 
>>>>>> than xD.  Anyone else here this?
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