Thursday, May 27, 2004
Pretec Announces 12GB CF Card
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 11:00 AM
"Riding on the back of news yesterday about dropping flash memory prices Pretec today announced their new range of high capacity Compact Flash cards. These new cards (marked as '80x') will be available as 3 GB, 4 GB, 6 GB and 12 GB. The first three cards (3, 4 & 6 GB) are available in Japan as of today, the larger 12 GB card by the end of the year. Despite lower NAND flash prices these cards are still unbelievably expensive, the 3 GB card is 166,000 YEN ($1,490), the 4 GB card is 207,00 YEN ($1,860), the 6 GB card is 525,000 YEN ($4,700), the 12 GB card is expected to be 1,659,000 YEN ($14,900)."
Wow, almost $15K for 12GB. Sure sounds reasonable ;-). The card will be out later this year and it will be cool to have 12GB of storage, imagine putting it in your DSLR camera and taking hundreds of RAW images. And it is high speed too. So you will be able to take high detail images at great speeds. Of course, the good news is that sooner or later, the price will go down. I wonder when it will reach the more affordable <$500 price range :).
Wow, almost $15K for 12GB. Sure sounds reasonable ;-). The card will be out later this year and it will be cool to have 12GB of storage, imagine putting it in your DSLR camera and taking hundreds of RAW images. And it is high speed too. So you will be able to take high detail images at great speeds. Of course, the good news is that sooner or later, the price will go down. I wonder when it will reach the more affordable <$500 price range :).
