Monthly Archives: November 2009

Whats Missing in Compact Cameras?

This is the Canon Powershot SD880 but whats missing here is also missing on my Panasonic Lumix Tz3 - a view finder. Now I can live with a compact camera that has a paltry manual mode settings range of f4.5 to f12 for for f-stop settings and shutter speed range of 1/60th to 1/500th - [...]

SSD-Solid State Drives for Digital Cameras/Camcorders; Update Nov 2009

Update: the price per gigabyte for a HDD has sunk to $0.07/GB in approximately a year and a half. Also see this comparison of HDD vs SSD trade-offs. But the most important trend is a slowdown in SSD drive cost/GB reductions forecast out to 2014. The improvements in cost/GB have already started to slow and [...]