Yes. Things do go obsolete. But in the case of memory cards, they tend to just keep working and so far, you can buy even the out of fashion cards with ease. Let's say that 2 years is no-problem.
As to docking station, I bought my dad the Kodak camera and dock and he likes it. The nice thing is that he parks the camera there for charging and it's always ready. It's been 2 years and for his birthday I found a refurb 3.1 MP plus 3X optical Kodak zoom camera for about 125 bucks. I fished out a SD memory card I could part with and shipped it out. The new camera has newer software and a new camera dock insert so he will keep that part and features.
Quite an upgrade from the older 2.1 Megapixel Kodak and no optical zoom.
I'm unsure you have to spend 500 bucks but can't tell since your specs were far too light.
As to the docking station limiting memory, that's news to me.
Bob
Bob
I'm beginning my research on purchasing my first digital camera. I'm quite confused about the best memory storage system - I fear spending $500+ on a camera, only to find that it's method of memory storage has become obsolete just a couple of years later (I'd like to keep whatever camera I buy for a lot longer than that!). Sticks? Cards?
On top of that, my wife has become anti - docking station, and is very vehement about it. She heard that a docking station limits what you can do relative to memory storage. I, on the other hand, thought a docking station was just an ADDITION to whatever stick/card/etc memory system that is in place ...
Any thoughts at all on this would be greatly appreciated and accepted! - Dougbert

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