Fujifilm p2 card updates?

ProfessorU said:
Allegedly they're available, but they are the same price as Panasonic cards, so no real reason to rush to buy them.
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I'd buy them to show other companies that there is interest in other companies making P2 cards. If there the same what's the harm? Panasonic doesn't need the money and knows they'll sell, it's the only way to encourage other people to license P2 technology. It'd be great it canon or jvc signed on imo. They're obviously going to have to tapeless on their pro cams soon.
 
Tom,

The Fuji, maxell and panny cards are all made at the same factory with different stickers put on them. It kind of ruinned all are hopes of some P2 card price competition...

So the 128 gig P2 card will cost $4799.00 and be out this summer? Waht have you heard?
 
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While searching for Maxell P2 cards, I was lead to Panasonic's site recently and saw this interesting little tidbit:

"What's inside a P2 card?

P2 cards are high-precision micro-computers with their own processors, firmware, a RAID controller, and gigabytes of the highest-quality zero-fault solid-state memory chips. A P2 card is an intelligent device that manages the data files — and even does a write-verification step for every byte of memory that gets written to the card (thus assuring fault-free operation). Early P2 cards were manufactured using actual SD memory cards in a striped RAID array, thus increasing the performance far beyond any individual memory chip’s speed. The newest generation of P2 cards dispenses with using individual SD memory cards and actually uses the core memory components."
 
ChipG said:
Tom,

The Fuji, maxell and panny cards are all made at the same factory with different stickers put on them. It kind of ruinned all are hopes of some P2 card price competition...
So the 128 gig P2 card will cost $4799.00 and be out this summer? Waht have you heard?
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Price competition,
well, that's up to your retailer to give you "their Best Price", I got mine much cheaper than the pana's as I don't get any cuts from pana suppliers.

P2 128gig, for me, "Forget it". Just too dammed expensive. I as everyone has a limit, maybe that's the how our Aussie networks have seen it too, 3 out of four are switching to XDCam.

All this has been debated before in many other threads. I'm happy with 3 x 32gig and 2 x 8 gig cards gives me over 4hrs DVpro50 up the spout.

Cheers
Tom K
olinevideo.com.au
 
Tom I'm also in Oz.. based out of Canberra.. how much were the cards from Fuji...

I use to have a good relationship with them when I shot 16mm but that was many years ago...

Are they still associated with Hanimex out of Mona Vale...

Cheers

www.les.herstik.com
 
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