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

["James L. Sims" <jlsims@knology.net>]

May be off topic, Art, but the constantly expanding variety of memory
media for digital cameras is a real headache.  When I dropped my Fuji
6900 last month (actually, my cat tripped me and I fell on it), I
replaced it with a Canon Digital Rebel because it uses Compact Flash
memory media cards.  The 6900 used Smart Media and, now, Fuji seems to
have switched to Secure Digital media.  Compact Flash has been around a
while and I've been told that SanDisk will be releasing a 3 gig high
speed card in the near future.

I don't know if any of the digital cameras can be connected to and
communicate with one of the flash drives but it would be a nice
feature.  Some cameras that use Compact Flash will accept the IBM
Microdrive but I haven't seen anything about an interface that would
permit the use of a Jump Drive while shooting.

I transfer the camera image files from the memory card to the computer
via a card reader. I do not use digital camera software except for
reading the Rebel's RAW (.CRW file extension) images.  I understand that
you can read these direct with Photoshop 8.

Jim Sims

Arthur Entlich wrote:

>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.
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>I recently bought a small snapshot digital camera which has 16 megs of
>internal memory and takes Secure Digital memory for expansion.
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>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?
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>I have several reasons why I'm interested in this approach.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Art
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