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Memory’s cheap, kid

I have a steal for you – for $149.97 (plus shipping) you get a Hitachi Microdrive equipped with a cyclopean 2 gigabytes of storage. That’s a basement price $.074 a megabyte.

Shudder.

I’m not kidding about having Microdrives lurking in our warehouse (I think I’ll start referring to them as the Great Old Ones), gathering dust (or inspiring early twentieth century horror). My E-410 will take a Microdrive, but even my chimp-heavy shooting habits beg for better than 2mb/sec transfer rate. And how could I excuse that, what with our steal price of $39.97 for 4gb Ducati CF cards and persistent rebates on Sandisk extreme III and IV cards. And we’ve just added a new family of what I think I’ll have to call candy SDHC cards from easystore (no caps, really).

The easystore SDHC line consists of 2, 4, and 8gb cards for 6.97, 9.97, and 19.97 respectively. That makes for a wallet-busting $.0035 a megabyte on the 2 and $.0025 a megabyte on the 4 and 8 gigabyte units. Ouch.

I understand that they’re rated as SDA2.0 class 2 devices. I figure that means unless you’re the proud owner of a D5000, D90, or Rebel T1i and keen on using that video function or you really like continuous drive -these cards are A-OK for throwing in the bag as a back-up. Or at your 75 year old grandmother who owns an AE-1 and a Kodak Easyshare so old it’s got pictures of your last two ex-girlfriends on it…not that I know anyone like that.



Mother’s Day Lens Promo?

So, not sure what marketing guru decided your average mom (please, don’t misunderstand me, I know there are quite a few of you mothers who are photographers, this isn’t about you but rather odd marketing choices) wants a Tamron 18-270mm for Mother’s Day (my mom would personally and resoundly smack me if I got her a 15x ultra zoom for Mother’s Day). Whoever it was, though, and misguided as the decision seems, it’s a boon to every photographer, mother or not, because the aforemention 15x zoom is currently $50 less. Through next Tuesday, I think. Odd day to end a promo, that.

Anyway, we have it in stock, in flavors for Nikon lenses and Canon lenses. And, it’s something I’ve talked about the usefulness of before. It’s really win-win here, people.



Leica Follow-Up

Jody was on the ball and got the last post approved before I got my edit submitted, so this didn’t go up as I expected. So, to add more class, style, and attractive diminutive French women to the blog, here’ s the Chanel ad I talked about in the last post. As much as I love good, chunky DSLRs, I don’t think anything other than that distinctive Leica would’ve fit in with the very wonderful feel they pull off here:



Raw Footage: Leica Comes A-Expo-in’

Starting to run out of these quick interviews, finally. This one is with Matt, the nice gentleman who reps Leica for us. This was the first time I’d held one of their M8s (which I noticed Audrey Tautou toting in Chanel No 5′s new TV spot. Class act, all around.) Sucker’s a brick. A big, black, brass brick. It also made me nervous as heck to hold, but then again I still think dropping 900 bucks on a lens is a chunk of change. Lenses are beauties, though.

OK, enough jabber, on to the video:




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