Property ManagementNew Panasonic Camera Goes Floppy
For all of you Sony fans out there who just love using a digital camera
that saves photos directly to floppy, Panasonic has a new camera for you.
As digital cameras have increased their photo resolution, file sizes have
increased correspondingly. The problem is that a camera using standard
floppy disks can hold only a few high-resolution photos. In fact, there are
resolutions now possible that wouldn"t fit on a floppy at all!
The Solution: Panasonic"s PalmCam line of digital cameras now includes
models that will save not to regular old floppy disks, but to SuperDisks
instead.
Each SuperDisk, also known as LS-120, holds up to 120 MB, yet has the same
physical dimensions as the standard floppy.
To the end-user this means two things:
1. A single SuperDisk will store about 83 times the data of a standard floppy. This translates into either more images per disk or to photos with much higher resolutions becoming possible.
2. Computers that are equipped with a SuperDisk drive can read both standard and LS-120 disks with the same drive!
It"s important to note that not all computers have LS-120 drives. If the manufacture makes this option available it"s typically for their notebooks.
As a real life example, I"ve used Twinhead notebooks for several years, and the last few I"ve owned have had the SuperDisk option. This simply means that I"ve one "floppy drive" in my notebook that will read and write to both standard disks and SuperDisk as well.
Bottom line: if you liked cameras that saved to floppy, you"ll love the new Panasonic cameras!