[filmscanners] Off Topic: About those USB flash memory drives...

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

I have a question that maybe someone will know the answer to.  Since it
is off topic you might wish to email me in private mail.

I recently bought a small snapshot digital camera which has 16 megs of
internal memory and takes Secure Digital memory for expansion.

I was wondering if, rather than buying Secure Digital cards, is there
some way to use these USB jump disks to download the image files without
special software, or can I load the software onto the jump disk so it
will communicate with the camera and allow a download of the image files?

If not that, if I were to connect the jump disk to the camera while
shooting, could the camera see this flash memory as usable and send
images to it?

I have several reasons why I'm interested in this approach.

1) memory types keep on changing, and I will probably upgrade to a
higher quality camera soon and don't want to invest in obsolete memory,
if this works it might be universal, and if not, at least the jumpdisk
has other usage.

2) For some reason, (I expect marketing) the jumpdisks are much cheaper
per MB that S.D. Flash memory, and it seems like their is more to them
that the flash memory cards.

Art


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