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From: RichA on 26 Mar 2010 20:07
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/pentax645d-1st.shtml

The 645D features a double SD slot, this came a bit as a surprise for
shooters used to CF cards in other high end camera. What are the
reasons for this choice?

Here also, we decided for SD by considering several factors.
First, we believe that SD has more potential as a long term storage
standard than CF that is sort of reaching the end of its life cycle as
a technology.

Besides, keeping the body of the 645D as compact and light as
possible was high on our list of priorities and the SD cards are
obviously smaller.

Finally, we heard complains from several photographers about
bended pin issues with CF cards that, considering the main target
usage of the camera, we wanted to avoid also.
From: Neil Ellwood on 27 Mar 2010 07:19
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:07:04 -0700, RichA wrote:

> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/pentax645d-1st.shtml
>
> The 645D features a double SD slot, this came a bit as a surprise for
> shooters used to CF cards in other high end camera. What are the reasons
> for this choice?
>
> Here also, we decided for SD by considering several factors.
> First, we believe that SD has more potential as a long term storage
> standard than CF that is sort of reaching the end of its life cycle as a
> technology.
>
> Besides, keeping the body of the 645D as compact and light as
> possible was high on our list of priorities and the SD cards are
> obviously smaller.
>
> Finally, we heard complains from several photographers about
> bended pin issues with CF cards that, considering the main target usage
> of the camera, we wanted to avoid also.

This sounds like advertising speak. The apparent target customers would be
advanced and professional photographers who already know how to handle CF
cards. Advertising folk never seem to know anything about their target
audiences.



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From: Dave Cohen on 27 Mar 2010 13:00
On 3/27/2010 7:19 AM, Neil Ellwood wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:07:04 -0700, RichA wrote:
>
>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/pentax645d-1st.shtml
>>
>> The 645D features a double SD slot, this came a bit as a surprise for
>> shooters used to CF cards in other high end camera. What are the reasons
>> for this choice?
>>
>> Here also, we decided for SD by considering several factors.
>> First, we believe that SD has more potential as a long term storage
>> standard than CF that is sort of reaching the end of its life cycle as a
>> technology.
>>
>> Besides, keeping the body of the 645D as compact and light as
>> possible was high on our list of priorities and the SD cards are
>> obviously smaller.
>>
>> Finally, we heard complains from several photographers about
>> bended pin issues with CF cards that, considering the main target usage
>> of the camera, we wanted to avoid also.
>
> This sounds like advertising speak. The apparent target customers would be
> advanced and professional photographers who already know how to handle CF
> cards. Advertising folk never seem to know anything about their target
> audiences.
>
>
>
True, but CF does seem to be going obsolete. Laptops (not sure about
desktops) don't come with CF readers built in. That's not of much
concern, but is an indication of the falling popularity of this format.
For me it's not good since I have a number of CF cards.

From: RichA on 27 Mar 2010 19:02
On Mar 27, 7:19 am, Neil Ellwood <cral.elllwo...(a)btinternet.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:07:04 -0700, RichA wrote:
> >http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/pentax645d-1st.shtml
>
> > The 645D features a double SD slot, this came a bit as a surprise for
> > shooters used to CF cards in other high end camera. What are the reasons
> > for this choice?
>
> >     Here also, we decided for SD by considering several factors.
> > First, we believe that SD has more potential as a long term storage
> > standard than CF that is sort of reaching the end of its life cycle as a
> > technology.
>
> >     Besides, keeping the body of the 645D as compact and light as
> > possible was high on our list of priorities and the SD cards are
> > obviously smaller.
>
> >     Finally, we heard complains from several photographers about
> > bended pin issues with CF cards that, considering the main target usage
> > of the camera, we wanted to avoid also.
>
> This sounds like advertising speak. The apparent target customers would be
> advanced  and professional photographers who already know how to handle CF
> cards.  Advertising folk never seem to know anything about their target
> audiences.
>
> --
> neil
> Reverse ‘r’ + ‘a’ and remove ‘l’.
> Linux counter 335851

I never had problems with bent pins, but I've seen it a few times so
getting rid of them made sense.
From: Savageduck on 27 Mar 2010 19:37
On 2010-03-27 16:06:01 -0700, RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> said:
-----------------------------
> You believe that. All you need is one person to jack the card
> sideways with some force. There is always slack in a slot system,
> there has to be and things like a cold plastic card (shrinkage) means
> even more slack.

So shrinkage and slack in the cold is your problem.


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Savageduck

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