Well Fran, as long as you have a handful of smartmedia to last you through, the camera does the same job today as you wished when you bought it, so I don't see any losing

Three years ago 1 Gigabyte of microdrive (a miniature hard drive in a compact flash case) was $220 when I got one. At the time 1Gb of CF card was upwards of $400! Now the microdrive can be had for less than $150 in deals and reasonably fast 1GB compact flash cards can be had for just over $200 and are seriously worth considering, particularly for the camera that can take unlimited video. If you are a millionaire you can get 6GB of CF card for four and a half grand

Likewise when the 7k arrived two 64M SD cards were enough for the Technote and Non-Technote archive and were reasonably priced when 128M was still expensive. Soon a couple of 128s were a reasonable price and hold between 40 and 50 audio/sequencer tracks each when 256 was pretty expensive. Now 256 is affordable. So when the 1G SD card comes along Bill, we can expect the price of the 512 to become reasonable for the storage offered... we hope

SD is driven a lot by compact cameras and personal digital assistants. The top Toshiba and HP handhelds have both SD and CF slots, SD for extra memory for programs, songs or video clips and CF for wireless network adaptors or miniature global positioning satellite receivers etc.
Now as well as bluetooth SD cards we see wireless network SD cards to replace CF versions so all we are waiting for is SD GPS receivers !!!

Seasons Greetings.