Tannin
Storage? I am Storage!
One of my new cameras has an SD card as well as a proper CF card. I don't use the SD slot much (CF is so much nicer to handle) but I keep an 8GB SD card in there for emergencies (such as running out of space on my CF cards).
I have now been through THREE different USB card readers and none of the bloody things work. A cheap one I had lying around, then a better one, and finally a supposedly good one. Typically, they just hang the computer, possibly because of the high capacity of the SD card.
For CF I have the fast Delkin PC Card reader that Pradeep (or possibly Lost6200) recommended to me years ago and despite poor mechanical design and some driver issues early on (now well sorted) it never lets me down.
But for SD I'm reduced to plugging the camera into the laptop, and it's a very slow and cumbersome and painful way of doing things.
So: what's the go for a FAST SD reader? I no longer care about the price, I just want the bloody thing to work: first time, every time.
Firewire? (Beware: 4-pin Firewire connectors - which I assume is what my laptop offers - cannot power a device, so although I'd like to free up USB slots by going Firewire, that might be more trouble than it's worth.
PCMCIA/PC Card? That would make a lot of sense: internal is always better than external. But who knows if my next laptop will support PC Cards? I'll be upgrading sometime within the next year, don't know what to, except that it will be (of course) a Thinkpad.
USB? I only have 2 USB ports, and I don't like dangly bits, but this might be the only option.
Bonus features: extra points for small, and for doing CF as well as SD (because it's good to have a spare high-speed reader when I'm on the road). Prefer not to have a zillion other slots for stupid I'll-never-touch-them-with-a-ten-foot-pole non-standard formats such as XD, $ony, & etc.
Remember: I can mail order from the States if they are not sold in Oz, but only from places that do overseas orders.
I have now been through THREE different USB card readers and none of the bloody things work. A cheap one I had lying around, then a better one, and finally a supposedly good one. Typically, they just hang the computer, possibly because of the high capacity of the SD card.
For CF I have the fast Delkin PC Card reader that Pradeep (or possibly Lost6200) recommended to me years ago and despite poor mechanical design and some driver issues early on (now well sorted) it never lets me down.
But for SD I'm reduced to plugging the camera into the laptop, and it's a very slow and cumbersome and painful way of doing things.
So: what's the go for a FAST SD reader? I no longer care about the price, I just want the bloody thing to work: first time, every time.
Firewire? (Beware: 4-pin Firewire connectors - which I assume is what my laptop offers - cannot power a device, so although I'd like to free up USB slots by going Firewire, that might be more trouble than it's worth.
PCMCIA/PC Card? That would make a lot of sense: internal is always better than external. But who knows if my next laptop will support PC Cards? I'll be upgrading sometime within the next year, don't know what to, except that it will be (of course) a Thinkpad.
USB? I only have 2 USB ports, and I don't like dangly bits, but this might be the only option.
Bonus features: extra points for small, and for doing CF as well as SD (because it's good to have a spare high-speed reader when I'm on the road). Prefer not to have a zillion other slots for stupid I'll-never-touch-them-with-a-ten-foot-pole non-standard formats such as XD, $ony, & etc.
Remember: I can mail order from the States if they are not sold in Oz, but only from places that do overseas orders.