Panasonic's SDHC line hits 16GB

Piddly and pathetic compared to the mammoth 32GB found in Toshiba's forthcoming SDHC cards, but we still wouldn't kick Panny's new 16GB class 6 (20MBps) media out of bed. It's out in November, and it'll run you $320.

[JugoGoya @ Aug 30th 2007 4:34PM]

I just looked a bestbuy receipt I had stumbled upon yesterday of a Kodak Camera my silly self purchased back in 04, I paid 199 for 512 mb card. What was I thinking, I just gave the camera to my parents along with an extra 1gb card I purchased on ebay for $5 dollars, .99 for the card and 3.99 for shipping. Before we buy these mega sd cards, we have to stop and think, "Do I really need 16gb. Only thing I would use this for would be for a SDHC Camcorder. And even with those, a 4gb would be enough, since the battery wouldnt hold up long enough to record up to the card capacity. I just wouldnt pay 320 for this card after seeing what I paid for a measly 512mb card.

[Anthony @ Aug 30th 2007 4:44PM]

I agree. Now I have a 4gb micro SD for my phone & wish that 8 were already out.

However, the price goes low so fast these days it's getting harder to justify.

[Spyvie @ Aug 30th 2007 6:38PM]

Yea, but it should help lower the price of smaller cards.

I routinely fill up my 4G SDHC shooting video on my P5000

[DarkAardvark @ Aug 30th 2007 10:19PM]

i'd like it for my treo. 16 gigs of music in mah phone pls =D

[ark_v2 @ Aug 30th 2007 4:51PM]

Hmmm...too expensive for what you get IMO

[brett.chandler @ Aug 30th 2007 5:58PM]

For YOU, probably not (me either, actually, especially at THAT price).

However, the tech has to come from somewhere, and early adopters wind up doing the heavy lifting in the $$$ department.

Pro photographers/videographers NEED these little beauties, and will be prepared to put up the bucks.

[Kevin @ Aug 30th 2007 6:14PM]

I agree, I just spent $90 CANADIAN on an 8GB Class 6 SDHC Card...This card seems pricey

[Mark @ Aug 30th 2007 4:56PM]

Wow, imagine losing THAT under your couch's pillows.

[Tim @ Aug 30th 2007 6:52PM]

No offense to Panasonic or anything but Creative is coming out with a PMP that has 16gb of flash memory which, I'm ignoring this fact, may be bigger than the card they're offering, will be the SAME if not LESS. Wouldn't it make more sense to just get that so it could act like a portable hard drive connectable to ANY USB equipped computer?

[Dan @ Aug 30th 2007 9:57PM]

Wow. My 8GB only cost me $94.99, and it wasn't even on sale.

[MC2009 @ Aug 30th 2007 10:04PM]

But... You could almost get a 1 TB external harddrive for $320...!

Not that PC storage is the point of SD cards, but still!

[Han Su Kim @ Aug 31st 2007 9:15AM]

Woohoo, that means on a Canon TX1, you can get close to (but still under) 1 hour of recording time! lulz

[Pazu @ Sep 5th 2007 2:29AM]

I think the price is steep but nobody asks you to buy it right now. Many years ago I bought a computer with a 4xx MB hard disk and I thought, oh it was really big (it was still far away from the multimedia era... a CDROM drive was still an extra).

I can imagine in the not-so-distant future you may laugh at the size of your 8GB SDHC card.

[ekarat @ Sep 12th 2007 7:12PM]

I wish I could go back to high school days. Back then we had Sinclair 64, BBC, Atari etc. my teacher used to go on about how wonderful it would be to have larger memory, a better way of storing program than those large diskette or tape recorder bla bla bla

20 or so years later and here we are 16Gb on a stamp size card!!!