What C.F.Cards Used To Cost.

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I came accross a Jessops catalogue from 2004.It shocked me to see how much we had to pay for memory cards only six years ago.The largest capacity on the list was only 512mb and it was a whopping £137.I don,t think you can buy a card as small as that now.
I thought I would post this for the benifit of any newcomers to digital photography to show that some things in our hobby have become much cheaper.Pity it doesn,t apply to lenses.
 
When I left Uni in 1995 I worked for Dixons for a while... 4MB RAM upgrades for desktops (486DX2 etc) were £170. 8MB was £380 :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
Jessops prices are always OTT.

They are doing a 8Gb Sandisk Extreme CF for £69 on their website, and Mymemory are doing the same card for £51. :eek:

I agree that memory has come down in price dramatically however. :eek: I bought a 1Gb Microdrive in about 2003 for £150. :eek: I had a camera that too CF and Smart Media cards, and the maximum capacity for SM cards was 128Mb.
 
I was having this same conversation with someone a couple of days ago.

I have a drawer full of old memory cards that cost thousands :-(

Darren Lean LNPS
 
I remember around that time getting a phone call from my pal, all excited because he'd found a shop miles and miles away that was doing 128mb cards for £20 and us driving away over to buy some :lol:
 
My first digi came with a 1gb microdrive, just reduced to £250 or thereabouts :lol:

While that looks like a waste of money from 7 years ago, how about this one...

A couple I know of in Leeds bought an 'executive' flat for £120,000 3 years ago, now it's worth about £60,000 - strangely they don't think is as funny as my 1gb card story was :shrug: even though the % drop of my card is far far more :D

DD
 
Thing is - they haven't come down in price - Jessops (so we're comparing apples with apples) show the most expensive card as £549 - all you're getting is more capacity and faster speeds. When this is then related to current camera file sizes, I would think that you could probably fit a similar number of shots on a card as back then?
 
Jack Flash said:
I thought I would post this for the benifit of any newcomers to digital photography to show that some things in our hobby have become much cheaper.Pity it doesn,t apply to lenses.
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Has it become cheaper though? Yes the sizes have changed but through the range top to bottom the prices are about the same.
 
dlean said:
I was having this same conversation with someone a couple of days ago.

I have a drawer full of old memory cards that cost thousands :-(

Darren Lean LNPS
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Me too, have just given away a couple of 1GB cards, knowing that they were at least £75 when I bought them.
 
OutLore said:
Thing is - they haven't come down in price - Jessops (so we're comparing apples with apples) show the most expensive card as £549 - all you're getting is more capacity and faster speeds. When this is then related to current camera file sizes, I would think that you could probably fit a similar number of shots on a card as back then?
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I don,t agree.My first digital camera in 2004 was a 4mp Nikon Coolpix 4300.My main camera now is a D300 12.2mp.I would only by able to store about three times the amount of photos using the Coolpix compared to the d300.The price drop is much,much more than that difference.
 
Jack Flash said:
I don,t agree.My first digital camera in 2004 was a 4mp Nikon Coolpix 4300.My main camera now is a D300 12.2mp.I would only by able to store about three times the amount of photos using the Coolpix compared to the d300.The price drop is much,much more than that difference.
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I may have misread that, but the current "most expensive" card from Jessops is £549, where the pic above is £138 - even with inflation over the last 6 years, that's not a price drop :D
[Edit] Re-read your post and makes sense now :bang:

Of course, we don't know if 512MB was the biggest, fastest card available back then.

Having said that, price per MB is much lower now....
512MB @ £138 = £0.27 per MB
64GB @ £549 = £0.008 per MB :eek:
 
Don't buy the filesize argument. My 10D in 2003 produced 6MB RAW files and I got about 170 or so on a 1GB card for £150. Now, my 1DIV produces c. 21MB RAW files and I get about 750 on a 16GB card that cost me £75.
 
After I bought my 1ds in 2003 I got 2 1gb cf cards from the US for around £800, which was the price of 1 at Jessops ;):)
 
amnesia said:
When I left Uni in 1995 I worked for Dixons for a while... 4MB RAM upgrades for desktops (486DX2 etc) were £170. 8MB was £380 :eek: :eek: :eek:
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That was the fire in the glue factory. It never got above £30/MB if you went to a box shifter rather than a retail store. My first home PC in 1995 had 16MB of RAM and I was really pleased that I only paid £320 for it :lol:

edit - that's £320 for the RAM, not the PC!
 
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