To JeffDM- speed is the issue. Whatever card you use needs to be able to catch a 100mbit data stream consistently. A very few CF cards can now do this, but they have some dependencies not likely to be supported by the camera. From what I've seen, much of the expense of the panasonics is in using multiple flash devices, and striping the data across them. Still not undoable from the perspective of a homebuilt hack, but it certainly raises the difficulty.
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Harris @ Sep 18th 2007 11:28AM
To JeffDM- speed is the issue. Whatever card you use needs to be able to catch a 100mbit data stream consistently. A very few CF cards can now do this, but they have some dependencies not likely to be supported by the camera. From what I've seen, much of the expense of the panasonics is in using multiple flash devices, and striping the data across them. Still not undoable from the perspective of a homebuilt hack, but it certainly raises the difficulty.
JeffDM @ Sep 18th 2007 6:55PM
For what it's worth, the Sandisk "Extreme III" CF cards claim 20MB (capital B) read and write speeds, which should mean 160Mbps speed.
I'm not sure what special deed is required to be able to stripe across them, I thought the P2s generally used cards sequentially.