I agree. I have the Belkin card reader for the ipod. It is very slow to read, and it takes a lot of batteries. On a new ipod (so the battery holds a long charge), the indicator goes from full to scarily close to empty when uploading 2GB.
In December in London I used it on days when my (only) 2BG card would fill up. In one ocassion I had time to shoot two rolls of Tri-X on the M6 in the time the card was being emptied. I wouldn't recommend this solution to someone with a DSLR. It would work great for a small PS shooting jpegs and uploading 128-256Mb at a time, though. My ipod will stay as a music player and as extra backup of the "keepers". j On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:03:13 -0800 (PST), Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Belkin has had two devices to move data to the iPod from digital > media or cameras for some time. I don't believe it is the best > solution, a standalone, dedicated storage device is much more > efficient at this task. I'm looking at one of the CompactDrive > units, as I have a trip coming up that I plan to be shooting a > LOT of exposures. I suspect I'll need space for 1500-3000 RAW > files. > > Godfrey > > --- David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 24, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Tom C wrote: > > > > > I would normally take a laptop with me without thinking > > twice. This > > > is a 2 week mostly guided tour trip to Italy with a lot of > > walking. > > > I'm trying to go as light as I can and I don't wish to leave > > my laptop > > > in the hotel. > > > > I hear that Apple have announced a cable to link digital > > cameras > > straight to the iPod Photo. This could be quite popular... > > > > Cheers, > > > > - Dave > > > > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com blog at http://www.jbuhler.com/blog
