4Gb CF Card Announced

An anonymous reader writes "Lexar has today announced that it now shipping a 4 GB 40x Compact Flash card. The card's claim to fame is the ability to store 600 RAW images taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera. This card also features Lexar's WA (Write Acceleration) technology which can improve performance further with WA enabled cameras. Because this card is larger than 2 GB, you will need a camera which is FAT32 compliant. This card is available now at the heady price of $1,499 ($0.37/MB). It looks like Lexar has managed to be faster then Hitachi (Former IBM storage division) with their 4Gb Microdrive."

Re:4Gb or 4GB

[Anonymous Coward]

This is slashdot, don't concern us with small details like facts.

Re:Al though

[Ominous Coward]

Then don't loose the card. Besides, even if you open its cage, a card's not going to go very far. It's not nearly the same as loosing dogs, lions, or some other animal.

Wait, you meant "lose", didn't you?

Re:So fucking what

[demastri]

that $1500 could feed a lot of starving children.

Or better yet, store the pictures of up to 600 of them without having to change memory sticks!

Re:When The Price Drops

[stratjakt]

And whats in the palm of your other hand?

Re:Is the word "than" dying?

[istartedi]

No. The prefix thanato is for words pertaining to death.

Re:Just get 4 1GB Microdrives

[pHDNgell]

That takes care of a single point of failure

Only if your camera has built-in RAID support and will take more than one of them at a time.

600 RAW images?

[Lxy]

What am I supposed to do with a number like that? I can't relate to it or determine how this would suit my needs. Put it into terms I recognize, like Libraries of Congress. How many Volkswagons fit in one of these? Is this still Slashdot?

Goddam image censors...

[kotj.mf]

Very wrong, at least for Canon cameras, Canon's raw format captures the data as it is coming off the image censor.

Too true. When my SO and I tried to take some nekkid pictures, all the naughty bits were blurred out.

Just get 2857 1.44MB Floppies

[timeOday]

Cheaper still and even more points of failure!

Re:40x?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you tied 1 million and a half horses to the shuttle it'd only move as fast as the slowest horse can run with a weight on it's back equivalent to the weight of the shuttle divided by 1.5 million.

Shit man, didn't you watch Back to the Future Part III? That was important stuff.