{"id":100,"date":"2004-09-29T14:20:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=100"},"modified":"2004-09-29T14:20:36","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T21:20:36","slug":"1g-compact-flash-for-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2004\/09\/29\/1g-compact-flash-for-50\/","title":{"rendered":"1G Compact Flash for $50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I received my digital camera as a gift two or three years ago, it came complete with a Nikon Compact Flash card with a modest (even at the time) 8 MBs of memory. That translates to about 30 pictures at its &#8220;Normal&#8221; resolution. It was almost like a traditional film-based box, in that after 30 pictures I had to empty it on to my laptop. I&#8217;d always meant to upgrade it, but never got around to it. <\/p>\n<p>\nBut at the Sun conference last week, my old colleague Gordon Haff informed me that Buy.com had 1G CF cards available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buy.com\/retail\/specialty_store_7.asp?loc=55684&amp;dcaid=1688\">here<\/a> for $50 (after rebate &#8211; $75 before). <\/p>\n<p>\nGot one &#8211; with free shipping no less &#8211; dropped it in the camera, and fired up the Coolpix 775 and what displayed? 0 of 2082. For $50 I went from 30 pictures to over 2000. <\/p>\n<p>\nAin&#8217;t cheap memory great?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I received my digital camera as a gift two or three years ago, it came complete with a Nikon Compact Flash card with a modest (even at the time) 8 MBs of memory. That translates to about 30 pictures at its &#8220;Normal&#8221; resolution. It was almost like a traditional film-based box, in that after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-offers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}