If a 10M DSLR can only take 1GB memory card, what will happen?

Yep, so a larger card is always desirable. There is no harm to have a
larger card, especially those memory cards are damn cheap now.

RiceHigh
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One of the advantages of bigger cards over more smaller cards, which you
don't see mentioned very often but seems to be true of all cameras, is
that the write speed of the card slows down as it fills up. This can
cause problems if you are shooting sequences or even just bracketing.
Its usually not worth getting close to filling a card up.

 

Interesting read, thanks for the info. And yes, this is the first time
I got known to this issue, too.

RiceHigh
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Maybe I'm just being obtuse (and I'm sorry for that), but what's the
big deal? Technology has limitations. You identify those limitations
and you see if you can work within them. If you can't, you find the
option that works for you. If you can't afford that option, you make a
compromise, somewhere.

If you want an 84 degree angle of view and a 1.4 aperture, you need to
be using a Canon full frame camera and the 24mm 1.4L prime. That's just
a limitation of what's available right now, from Canon and everyone
else. Can't afford those cameras or that lens? Then you either get a
slower lens (plenty available for cropped frame sizes) or a slightly
longer lens with a narrower angle of view.

Likewise, if you want to shoot more pictures per card, you need to buy
a camera that uses CF. If you don't want to do that then you decide to
compromise and simply buy more cards. The price incentive for higher
capacity cards isn't very strong in SD and it doesn't exist in CF (2
1GB CF cards are cheaper than a 2GB; 2 2GB cards are cheaper than a
4GB). Having pictures spread over more cards is good security in case a
card fails (it happens, however rarely). Changing cards is done quickly
and SD cards are so small and light you don't even realize you're
carrying them.

You've identified a limitation. Good. Now, aware of it, you can decide
how best you need to deal with it. But it exists and there's nothing to
be done. If it's really a problem, you're looking into the wrong
camera. If it isn't really a problem, then why get so worked up?

 

The limitation is possible but has not yet been identified, since we
have only seen the camera's prototype under the window at the PMA. Now,
everything can be improved and new technology and standards can be used
to improve it before it will be put into the market.

BTW, I see your point, I think there will be a better camera anyway,
before some days it's really the "wrong camera" with a "limitation"
which every Pentaxian who want to get this upgrade body will not wish
to see.

RiceHigh
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The new Pentax will surely have some limitations, but with the prices for
SD cards today, I don't see SD cards as a big limitation. I am more
concerned about focus speed in low light and battery life time.

But we have to wait 10 months to see what world we are living in then.

Stig Vidar Hovland