Downloading directly to USB drive

[The Doctor]

Hi all,

Is it possible to directly download photos from a digital
camera directly to a USB drive?

Thank you.
Anthony

[none]

Yes, but depends on wot camera/drive you have. There's a few specialist
devices around. Have a look on the Digital Camera type Vendor web sites.
Should turn up a few.

I just bought an iriver h340. Basically a hard disk mp3 player.
But it has 2 USB ports. One an A and one a B.
The doco say's it will connect direct to certain camera's, depending on
what driver's it uses. But it should work to most flash readers (ie take
the flash card out, plug it into a little reader, that's plugged into
the h340), which is how I plan on using it.
You can also view the the photo's on the h340's lcd.

Mark

The Doctor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to directly download photos from a digital
> camera directly to a USB drive?
>
> Thank you.
> Anthony

[Rob]

The Doctor wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to directly download photos from a digital
> camera directly to a USB drive?
>
> Thank you.
> Anthony


Yes -- also dependent on which camera. Some cameras will download
without extra drivers, others you will have to load the drivers that are
supplied with the camera(ie Ricoh for one).

Best and easiest way is to buy a USB card reader (about $30), if your
camera needs its own drivers to enable the downloads, that will make the
card reading independent to the cameras system software.

rm

[k]

"The Doctor" <doctor@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to directly download photos from a digital
> camera directly to a USB drive?

yup, check out the XS-Drive II nice drive/digital wallet

k

[Marcel Safier]

Anthony

I just bough the new Vosonic Xs Drive Pro VP3110 from
http://www.mittoni.com.au/ for $198 landed. I dropped a Toshiba 60GB 5400rpm
2.5"HDD in it that came from eBay for $220 and now I have a great unit that
I can download pics from my new Canon 300D onto using the built in card
reading slots. The camera cannot be cable linked direct to the drive.
Another model has a 2.5" screen but only displays jpegs and mpegs. I intend
shooting RAW and TIFF so it is of no use to me.

The unit also has all my criticial files from my PC copied on to it so I can
access then anywhere anytime. It is a plug and play USB 2 device under XP.
The HDD must be formatted as FAT32. Although the booklet says a HDD larger
than 32GB can't be formatted in the unit the supplied software did indeed do
the job on the 60GB. Its an MP3 player as well. The company site is
http://www.vosonic.com.tw.

Mittoni also have the SUPER DIGIBIN of which I know little.

Iriver has a site: http://www.iriver.com/product/

Lots more products in this line are probably out there and/or on the way.

Cheers!

Marcel

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> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to directly download photos from a digital
> camera directly to a USB drive?
>
> Thank you.
> Anthony

[k]

"Marcel Safier" <msafier@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Anthony


>I intend
> shooting RAW and TIFF so it is of no use to me.

Just a quick suggestion Marcel which you can choose to ignore or not.

Shoot a high quality jpeg of an image and then a Tif (and note how long they
take to write to the disk) .

Open them both and blow them up to the same size where you can see the
*individual* pixels - scan around the image a bit so you can check a few areas..
Wen you find that the jpeg image data is exactly the same as the tif's but tif's
are just bigger and slower to write, you may find yourself shooting jpegs and
raws, but no tifs.

note however that they should be *saved* as tifs before working on them on the
computer as any work done on a jpeg can cause 'original' data loss through
interpolation.

when you finish working the images, save the final output not in tif but again
as a jpeg.

just hoping to save you a mass of time and disk space :-)

karl