Red Flash

[Carl-August Savgård]

It's so sad when I check the forum and there is no new posts... I looked over two minutes ago... sad.

Anyway... the red flash, I just came across this
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/lexar-intros-300x-udma-compactflash-cards-readers/
http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/cf_udma.html

It seams that it would be enough for 25fps onboard but then again I'm no expert. Just wanted to share a link. I know it has been disscused before and I for one have no problem of buying a red branded flash unit but it would be nice to be able to buy off shelf if needed. I would still buy the Red if there was one.

When will the camera ship? (Irony)

[Brook Willard]

The first camera is slated to ship around NAB. No promises, of course.

As for the memory, I expect that they have something in mind already... whether proprietary or not.

As Jim said, if the it works and the price is right... what's the difference? :)

[Jarred Land]

we saw that.. the problem with alot of manufactures specs, as mentioned before, is that they are very optimistic with their write speed specs. This card, although they suggest 40+ MB/s write times, has already been tested to max out at 20 MB/s. The problem is that manufactures have special machines to measure speed of memory, and dont account for overhead of operating systems and normal point to point speedbumps, that happen in the real world.

[Carl-August Savgård]

Good to know that you are ahead of me. =) And I must say that I'm very happy and glad that you all take time to answer questions.

Brook... can you give me a date on when the camera ships? (Irony, very much irony.)

[Chris Gearhart]

The date on which yours is ready! :usd:

[Brook Willard]

No official ship dates. We also don't know how long it will take them to produce all the cameras. That is, while we have a guess as to when the first camera will ship, we don't have a clue when the last one will ship.

[Joe Carney]

I must be the only one hoping to not get mine till the end of the year when the zoom lens is supposed to ship. I'll be reserving a Zoom when reservations reopen at NAB and if the deposit is under 1K.

Joe C.

[Claus Mueller]

Flash Disk up to 160 GB, read/write performance 70MB/sec.
Just found this:
http://www.adtron.com/newsroom/25fb-Solid-State-Disk.html

Claus

[Laco Zamba]

Today I found same info about this flash disk but I couldn't quickly find this thread :-)
Is there any info about price?

[Claus Mueller]

No, there is no info about price.

Claus

[Carl-August Savgård]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/adtrons-160gb-drive-nabs-the-2-5-inch-ssd-record/

"No exact word on price, but we hear you might be looking at somewhere in the range of $80-$115 per gigabyte. Yeah, we know. Aren't you sorry you asked?"

That would be 12800 - 18400...

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Actually the price is coming down nicely on NAND tech. Adtron's 32GB 2.5" IDE drive offering was nearly $60K when it released a couple years ago. This is the future of FLASH. Currently it's being used in mission-critical, highly specialized applications. Military, aerospace, etc...

Consumer-level offerings from Sandisk, A-DATA, Transcend and others are for the most part still based on SD and CF style FLASH tech. The 128GB 2.5" ATA drive coming from Sandisk is literally 8 of their upcoming long-life 16GB CF chips in a RAID-0 style array inside a 2.5" HDD form factor. This drive is expected to sell in the USA later this summer for MSRP $649 or less.

Computer makers are now working with incorporating NAND FLASH tech into notebooks and other mobile offerings in the 2 to 4 GB capacities to serve as system-level cache. Some notebook makers are using the NAND cache (which can be maintained with very low power) to store music, address book data, photos, etc.. Which can be viewed or listened to while the notebook computer is turned off on a small external display that barely drains the battery or uses a secondary, smaller battery altogether. Apple is rumored to be investigating NAND FLASH for iPods and could release a 16 to 32 GB NAND based iPod this year if the prices can be pushed down. Prices will go down very quick once the consumer market jumps on NAND. Adtron in Arizona is one of the world's leading researchers and producers of NAND FLASH tech.