Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
to ever be created?
I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
camcorder.
Why are people opposed to it?

Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

You can get a Micro drive already


"TS" <maxview80@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
> to ever be created?
> I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
> Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
> 40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
> camcorder.
> Why are people opposed to it?

Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

maxview80@hotmail.com (TS) writes:

> Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
> to ever be created?
> I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
> Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera

Just like the 4gb microdrives?

> Why are people opposed to it?

Why are people sufficiently clueless that they suggest 'cool new
ideas' that have been in use for years?

B>

Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

"TS" <maxview80@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
> to ever be created?
> I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
> Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
> 40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
> camcorder.
> Why are people opposed to it?

Because hardrives are usually rated in "ms"... where non-volitle RAM is
rated in "ns". So, you really want to slow down the write times?

Seymore...
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Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

"Seymore" <g_seymore@REMOVEhotmail.com> writes:

> "TS" <maxview80@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:a2592918.0411272335.4a3a9ee9@posting.google.c om...
> > Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
> > to ever be created?
> > I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
> > Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
> > 40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
> > camcorder.
> > Why are people opposed to it?
>
> Because hardrives are usually rated in "ms"... where non-volitle RAM is
> rated in "ns". So, you really want to slow down the write times?

Flash rated to write three orders of magnitude faster than a hard
drive? Really? Wow. When can I get some?

B>

Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

"TS" <maxview80@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a2592918.0411272335.4a3a9ee9@posting.google.c om...
> Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
> to ever be created?
> I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
> Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
> 40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
> camcorder.
> Why are people opposed to it?

Mircrodrives have been available for years.
I've been shooting with 1GB hard drives since 2001.
4GB drives have been available for some time.

Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

My old Kodak DCS410 has a 512mb hard drive in it. That is the only storage
medium I can use with the old clunker.

Sam


"TS" <maxview80@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a2592918.0411272335.4a3a9ee9@posting.google.c om...
> Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
> to ever be created?
> I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
> Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
> 40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
> camcorder.
> Why are people opposed to it?

Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

"TS" <maxview80@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a2592918.0411272335.4a3a9ee9@posting.google.c om...
> Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
> to ever be created?
> I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
> Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
> 40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
> camcorder.
> Why are people opposed to it?

Don't think they are- several new digital backs for medium format SLRs have
built in drives in addition to CF slots. IIRC, the new Mamiya and Hasselblad
DSLRs will have them too.

--
Martin Francis http://www.sixbysix.co.uk
"Go not to Usenet for counsel, for it will say both no, and yes, and
no, and yes...."

Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

You can already buy microdrives that fit where a CF card does.


On 27 Nov 2004 23:35:31 -0800, maxview80@hotmail.com (TS) wrote:

>Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives
>to ever be created?
>I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio
>Carbon or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a
>40GB hard drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a
>camcorder.
>Why are people opposed to it?

Re: Hard drive based cameras ever?
 

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:35:31 -0800, TS wrote:

> Any plans for digital cameras and camcorders with built-in hard drives to
> ever be created?

Yes:-

http://www.jvc.com/presentations/everio/

> I would think the little 5GB drives similar to what's in in a Rio Carbon
> or iPod Mini could work very well in a digital camera and a 40GB hard
> drive from a full sized iPod would work pretty well in a camcorder. Why
> are people opposed to it?

They're just slow getting there.

Mike.