Hard drive digital cameras

Jaged · 2004-12-18, 11:23 PM

Why don't they exist?

FlamingPotato-J · 2004-12-18, 11:25 PM

Cause you arent l33t enough

Fragmatic · 2004-12-18, 11:32 PM

IBM Microdrive n00b.

Jaged · 2004-12-18, 11:36 PM

Those things hold less and cost more then the mini hard drives that they use in iPods and the like. Why haven't they put those in a digital camera?

Rbstr · 2004-12-18, 11:42 PM

too slow, to much battery usage, as it has to constantly spinn if it wants to have a decent write time.

EDIT: and the uber costs, if an Ipod wich is basicaly a battery, a mini HD, a case, and a cheap circuit board costs $300. A miniHD probably cots $200-$250 for 20gb, (Assuming the profit margin on an Ipod is acctualy less than $100) plus the optics and the quite expensive circuits that cameras need.

Smaug · 2004-12-18, 11:42 PM

your threads suck

Jaged · 2004-12-18, 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by Rbstr

too slow

They arnt too slow for an mp3 player.

And how does this thread suck? This is something that has been perplexing me for a long time.

Smaug · 2004-12-18, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by Jaged

This is something that has been perplexing me for a long time.

Keyword: me. This thread is pointless rambling. Plus, some cameras do have hard drives in them.

Rbstr · 2004-12-18, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by Jaged

They arnt too slow for an mp3 player.

And how does this thread suck? This is something that has been perplexing me for a long time.

An MP3 just needs to read it can easily do that faster than the bitrate, but a camera has to write and it has to do it reasolable fast, but minHD's don't go so fast. Plus above, and the fact that it is rater big to put into a small-med sized camera

Jaged · 2004-12-18, 11:56 PM

Then why not use a little bit of memory as a buffer? Wouldn't need more then 1mb. Just take the pic to the flash memory and transfer it over to the HDD and then whipe the flash for the next pic.