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Crikey moley, 8 gig. Where will it end? I guess it won't end, but I never cease to be amazed at the rate of progress with storage capacity (three or maybe four computers ago, my harddrive was 540 Mb!)

And with a write speed of around 9MB/sec, you can theoretically, with a D70, shoot raw images @ 2fps until the cows come home.

I hear ya! I was given a 340Mb hard drive for my 16th birthday (I was a certified geek child), and to think the flash memory in my camera far exceeds the capacity of my collection of warez and games back then.

With 3 x 2.0Gb + 3 x 1.0Gb CF, I currently have, hard for me to fill them up quickly.
The 8Gb card will good for the next generation of DSLR with 12mp or over and shooting RAW.

Thinking about these high capacity cards and digital photography....When I was using film 300 exposures in a day was the exception...and a hard days work. Now 300 exposures is a stroll throught the park. The shutters on our D70's are worked very hard...I hope NIKON has built them to stand up to it? I have this awful feeling that in 18 months time D70 shutters all over the worl are going to start failing through overuse. A huge pile of landfill consisting of D70 shutters. What a thought.

Matt. K wrote:A huge pile of landfill consisting of D70 shutters. What a thought.

I shutter at the thought!

If that happens excellent forums such as this one can put weight upon manufacturers to lift their act or to broadcast better information about product life expectancy (e.g. lightbulb hours) so as to allow consumers more informed choices.

Cheers

Graham

Hi Bago
Perhaps we could start a new thread?....Do it yourself shutter replacement/repair. All you need is a screwdriver and a bottle of wine?

Personally, being a D70 owner, I would be quite happy if there was a shutter landfill - it would mean that the D70s are getting used as it was intended. Each 'click' capturing a happy moment and bringing a smile to its user. It would be more sad to think 30 years from now there were numerous D70s in pristine, 'as new', 'never used' condition.

My recollection is that, years ago, the titanium foil shutters in cameras such as my FE2 and F801 had a life expectancy in the vicinity of several hundred thousand cycles. 300,000 sounds familiar to me.

I have no reason to believe that the D70's shutter will be any less robust.