With multiple cards it's less of a pain to use an external reader than
having to shuffle them all through the camera to download.
Insert the card, turn the camera on, connect it to the computer,
download, disconnect, turn the camera off, remove the card ...
rinse & repeat.
And it sucks battery power. If the battery dies during the download, it
can sometimes corrupt the images on the card.
Plus you can't use the camera until you recharge the battery.
From: Ann Sanfedele
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
Doug Franklin wrote:
> On 2010-06-05 7:45, Cory Waters wrote:
>
>> That's what I did.
>> CW
>>
>> On 6/5/2010 7:40 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
>>
>>> Do i just but one and try it, and then buy a new reader if it does not
>>> like the card.
>>
>
> That's what I did, too. Several times, in fact. A few months after
> SDHC came out, I got a 4GB card. It wouldn't work with my reader, so
> I got another reader. It worked with that one. Now 8GB and higher
> are out and I find my fancy-schmancy reader that handles 4GB cards
> just fine won't handle one larger. So I'll go get another one. At
> US$ 10 or so each, it's not that big a hassle, apart from the extra
> metallic nasties headed to the dump.
>
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