Fujifilm will sell P2 flash cards for DV recording
Everybody is salivating over Panasonic’s P2 flash storage cards for digital video. They offer all the right -fast- data flow rates and are robust enough for even the roughest video applications. The main sticking point has always been incredibly high prices.
Fujifilm decided that now is the right time to market P2 cards and will initially sell 16GB and 32GB models, while later this year a 64GB model will be released. The later will give some breathing space to users that currently use mostly 8GB cards -for cost reasons- and have to swap P2 cards every few minutes.
Admittedly, videocameras using P2 cards are mostly targeting professionals. Nevertheless, the rapid fall of prices for virtually all types of solid state memory are creating a state of expectation that has so far not materialised with P2 cards. Is Fijifilm’s entrance going to help? We just have to wait for its upcoming price announcement.
Link: Akihabara
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