The card reader is usually a lot faster, you can leave it plugged into the computer so no fiddling with cables, it doesn't drain your camera batteries and if you have more than 1 card to copy from it's generally a lot quicker to swap as there's no card door in the way.
-Adam On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > dumb question, maybe > > why do yo have to use a card reader at all? just plug the camera into the > computer, no? > > then it doesn't matter what size card you have , right? > > ann > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.