Canon just announced the XSi, their upgrade to the XTi. Notably, they dropped Compact Flash and replaced it with an SD/SDHC slot. I'm not glued to CF, but it seems to have been the storage format of choice for higher end cameras for quite some time.
My favorite flash media format is in fact SD, and extending the cards to handle large cards with SDHC only makes sense. The addressing scheme on SD cards tops out at 2GB, which is becoming far to small. SDHC's addressing scheme has a theoretical maximum of 2048GB (2TB!), which should be enough for a little while. I'm sure they have some work to cram that much storage into the SD form factor, but I'm glad to see them planning for the future.
When hard drive based video cameras started showing up on the market, I was pretty excited. Having a random access way to record and work with video only makes sense. I was convinced that they were the way to go. Now, I'm more inclined to look forward to an SDHC based video camera.
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