OK, I think I got caught up in somebody else's thinking here, and didn't translate it into my own real-world use.
For me, I don't care about sending images direct to PC as I am quite happy to write to card & download on a firewire reader or to my flashtrax. The only use for me of Remote Assistant is just that - remote assisstance. Being able to set timer intervals and do extended autobracketing. In fact only really the first of those. And I guess as such I am not likely to be hamstrung by the download taking a ling time. I still feel it should be an option to write direct to CF (if only because it should have been simple to implement), but feel even more strongly for people using it as you say - in order to write directly to PC that not giving us USB 2 was a BIG mistake. Maybe the ideal compromise would be to use the card as a buffer - writing direct to that and having a background process trickling the stuff down to the PC. I bet that wouldn't be easy to implement though... > -----Original Message----- > From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 March 2004 14:34 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: *ist D problem (firmware?) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Brigham" > Subject: RE: *ist D problem (firmware?) > > > > It is very slow because it is NOT writing direct to the CF. It is > sending the entire file to the remote software on the PC > which is then writing it back to the camera. Which means > twice as much data going through the slow USB 1.1 link. > > Try as I might, I can't see why this would be a problem. The > whole idea of the remote asistant is to get the files > straight to the PC. > > William Robb > > >
