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Still waiting for SDXC and possibly USB3

I can't understand why high end camera manufacturers have taken so long to get SDXC support into their cameras?!

I would like a DSLR camera with good still frame performance, but right now there is no way I'm going to buy a camera with only SDHC support. It has been outdated for long, and even then has been very slow to be picked up by manufacturers.

The max. limit of 32GB may (may!) not be a limit right now, but I'm expecting to keep such a camera for several years and:

1.The speed of SDHC with Class6 as the highest spec. is pathetic! I'd like some full frame burst possibilities beyond just 2 or 3 frames and requiring fast RAM in the camera shouldn't be necessary by today's standards.

2.The max. file size of 4GB because of the even more outdated FAT32 is even more pathetic.

3.I don't want CompactFlash in a camera, because it is anything but compact.

On top of that, I hope someone will soon start to implement USB3.0, too. Not because of the maximum speed, but again because I hope to keep my camera for several years and eventually everything else will be USB3.0, and I'd like to keep high transfer rates a possibility.

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